What is urban portraiture?
This is one of the most asked questions when I tell someone that I do Urban Portraiture. Let me take you on a journey of exploring this process of taking portraits.
Urban Portrait [ ˈɜːbən ˈpɔːtrɪt ]
A portrait is a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
Urban describes something as being in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.
The combination of these two terms thus means a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.
I mainly photograph Actors, Musicians, Dancers and Influencers and help them create awesome photos to stand out in the crowd. In order to differentiate myself and my clients from the typical (if that even exists) Studio portrait I take them to a part of a city which acts as the backdrop to the photography.
After an initial consultation where we figure out the type of photos you are looking for, and agree on where and when we will do our photoshoot its GO-time!
This usually means that we take a 2-3 Hour walk through an urban hotspot – passing by lots of interesting architecture – overlooked infrastructure or grimey graffiti. The sets could be a skatepark or a sidestreet, a car dumpt to a streetart site. At each location I aim to create 3 Subscenes and we move on as soon as we are happy with them. Throughout the shoot we change little details about the clothing such as adding Hats glasses scarfs ect.THis represents both the journey we are taking and – if you want to to also a personal transformation journey within the phototshoot
The resulting Images are a portrait you as a Person as well as the city we wandered through. The intertwined stories of the city and you as a person will create a series of pphotos absolutely unique to you and your story.
The beauty in this approach is, that although I scout the locations beforehand – it actively involves the imagination and creative ability all people involved and I love involving the people I work with in the process.
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