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. 




Referring to Albrecht Duerer’s woodcut Melancholia I, 1514 (left)




Referring to Alfred Stieglitz photograph of Charles Demuth, 1923 (left)






Process - painted costume
Process - painted backdrop