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L I K E A P A I N T I N G The inspiration for this series comes mainly from classic portraits of past painters, including Rembrandt and Vemeer, while keeping the appearance of a soft and natural light. Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
LIKE A PAINTING
I like to think that the women of my photographs live in a ‘Secret Garden’ of their own, a protected and enclosed space, which we can only approach with care and patience. It takes patience and care for the women I portray to talk about themselves. They don’t exhibit their feelings, but prefer instead to barely whisper them, between the shadows and the light, they let those feelings be glimpsed in the silent play of leaves and flowers. I like to use flowers and plants in my photography, their delicate structure allowing me to hint at the inner world of my protagonists.
FLOWERS ALL AROUND
I've always been fascinated by the figures portrayed from the back that I met throughout my studies of art history. Ingres, Caillebotte, Magritte, Velasquez, David Hopper, Friedric, Hammershoi ... Many are the authors who come to my mind. Almond instinctively, at the beginning of my work, I started a series of such portraits. The view from the back recounts the most hidden feelings,it retains an aura of mystery, it narrate of suspended and silent moments. My figures do not contemplate the infinite as in the Romanticism,they do not look out of a window, we do not participate to their wonder. We can only observe them while they protect their intimacy, hiding their faces while they show us their unexhibited femininity, utterly indifferent to the fact of being observed ... ?This album was created with the intent of collecting my work of the recent years on this subject. monia merlo photo art painting
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