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: ; 
in reference to Alfred Stieglitz photograph of Charles Demuth, 1923 (upper image left) ;
in referring to Albrecht Duerer’s woodcut Melancholia I, 1514 (lower image left).







costume and backdrop