Photographing people in dark and working with shapes and shadows under directional imposing light is always intriguing.

I tend to give my models much freedom to figure out what they’d like to do in front of the camera. This way we may end up with a few shots that we don’t like much, but then, at times, something genuine appears on our image sensor; a gesture, a sense of a feeling that resonates with us, through the tones of the photographic image.

Of course, working rather freely under a controlled directional light makes the shooting rather challenging, but this becomes part of the collaborative process as we constantly rethink and reshape the light for the evolving gestures that happen to charm us unexpectedly.