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Marisa Portolese

Marisa Portolese is a Canadian-Italian and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Portraiture, representations of women, and figures in nature are recurrent subjects in her artistic practice. Autobiography and familial and cultural heritage are equally prominent themes explored through the genre of storytelling, the narrative still and moving image. She often produces large-scale colour photographs, rich in painterly references that concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments regarding identity and spectatorship. She attempts to weave together gesture, affect, and the nuances of the gaze, to create an immersive and emotional landscape for the viewer. Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she produced many photographic projects, which have received critical acclaim and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions widely shown in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Artist in Residence at the McCord Museum in Montreal; her work during this residency culminated as a solo show and a catalogue publication entitled In the Studio with Notman. Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in various journals, magazines, newspapers, art books and periodicals, and she has three published monographs: Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma Chambre (2003), Antonia’s Garden (2012) and In the Studio with Notman (2018). She has been awarded grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 2022, she received a Concordia University Research Fellow Award. In addition, her works are included in various corporate, museum and private collections.
Creator Id: 483
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography
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Work by Marisa Portolese

Alana

Work ID: 62817

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Margaret

Work ID: 62824

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Irene

Work ID: 62834

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Geneviève

Work ID: 62833

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Maggie

Work ID: 62829

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Geneviève

Work ID: 62826

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Kate

Work ID: 62823

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Zoe

Work ID: 62808

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Marzena

Work ID: 62809

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Mackenzie

Work ID: 62812

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Naomi

Work ID: 62813

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Ornella / Matthew

Work ID: 62814

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Kate

Work ID: 62815

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Nadia

Work ID: 62821

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Suzy

Work ID: 62835

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Marie-Christine

Work ID: 62832

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Althea

Work ID: 62816

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Marisa

Work ID: 62819

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Sirens

Work ID: 62825

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Marielle

Work ID: 62820

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Diane

Work ID: 62807

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Maryse

Work ID: 62818

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Marie-Claude

Work ID: 62822

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Amélie

Work ID: 62810

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Sonya

Work ID: 62806

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Penny

Work ID: 62830

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Anna / Zoe

Work ID: 62828

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Anna

Work ID: 62827

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Jennifer

Work ID: 62831

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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Nadia

Work ID: 62811

Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.

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The Lover

Work ID: 62859

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

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Prom Queen

Work ID: 62878

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Blue Lady

Work ID: 62889

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Book Cover

Work ID: 62872

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Longing

Work ID: 62888

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Pink Nipple

Work ID: 62882

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Teen Dream

Work ID: 62881

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Coming into her own

Work ID: 62886

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Boudoir

Work ID: 62876

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Swan

Work ID: 62887

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Pregnant

Work ID: 62883

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Playing dress-up

Work ID: 62877

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Red Boots

Work ID: 62875

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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The Dancer

Work ID: 62879

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Soledad

Work ID: 62880

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Flowerchild

Work ID: 62884

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Pretty Ribbons

Work ID: 62885

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Hotel Masquerade

Work ID: 62890

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Flowers

Work ID: 62874

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Soledad

Work ID: 62873

Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.

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Philippe

Work ID: 62844

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po

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Brian

Work ID: 62846

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Dawit

Work ID: 62851

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Comfortably Numb

Work ID: 62871

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po

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Philippe

Work ID: 62850

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Simon

Work ID: 62843

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Derelict

Work ID: 62870

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

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Brian, John, Adam

Work ID: 62847

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po

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Dawit

Work ID: 62840

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Marc

Work ID: 62845

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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William

Work ID: 62848

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po

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Mario

Work ID: 62842

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Filippo

Work ID: 62841

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Hervé

Work ID: 62839

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Andrew

Work ID: 62836

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Tomasz

Work ID: 62837

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Doll Heart

Work ID: 62858

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Ivry

Work ID: 62849

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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Philippe

Work ID: 62838

Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.

Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.

These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.

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The Equestrian

Work ID: 62868

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Selena

Work ID: 62869

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

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Hush

Work ID: 62866

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

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On the Rivington, Dreaming

Work ID: 62852

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po

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On the Rivington, Wishing

Work ID: 62853

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Recluse

Work ID: 62867

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Emerald Isle, François et William

Work ID: 62854

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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The Painter

Work ID: 62865

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Laura

Work ID: 62864

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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The Calm After the Storm

Work ID: 62861

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Miami

Work ID: 62860

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po

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Hervé

Work ID: 62856

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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Simon

Work ID: 62857

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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True Blue

Work ID: 62855

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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The Prince

Work ID: 62863

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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The Rebel

Work ID: 62862

Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.

The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.

The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.

Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.

Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po

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