We used to treat portraits as a mirror in which we can see one’s best side. Image must be true but we accept some ‘artistic’ tricks to be added. Portraits arranged in studio with dozens of strobe lights, fantasy backdrops and tons of makeup are still seen as true and real. What if we move in the opposite direction and remove all these beautifiers, one by one to get to the borderline between reality and dreamlike world. On the edge where imagination and stereotypes are stronger that rational vision real people are disappearing. Ugliness turns into beauty, anger into gentleness, beast is arising from the angel. The people you will never meet exist only in your own imagination.

 “ I want the faces to glow and radiate and I let the camera do the job, taking time, much more time then needed for picture to be taken. Enough for picture to appear. “