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