Title: melancholic pose
Photography
Model: Valentine Langlais
Make-up, outfit & decor: Alissa Guillouet
2022





Melancholia seen through the lens of the western culture. These portraits depict the exaggerrated theatricality of a self-conscious sadness. 

Dyptic images: referring to Albrecht Duerer’s woodcut Melancholia I, 1514 (left);
referring to Alfred Stieglitz photograph of Charles Demuth, 1923 (left).







costume and backdrop