Diego, 2018

Nicholas Winter  

All images shot on Fuji Provia 100, 6x6cm 120 slide film, Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm lens. All prints are 40x40cm on 6mm museum glass, and mounted on reflective gold card, black wood frame

We are surrounded and overwhelmed by the face that pleases or should please. In advertisements, magazines, television, online and offline, it is ever present.
We live in a world of selfies, of faces that please the creator of the image, defining what they should or should look like.
On the other hand, "don't forget, remember" presents a different vision of the portrait.
The models are seated and photographed with a long exposure facing their reflection in a mirror. This is how the dynamics of the face are transformed into a more personal and profound “inner” portrait.
Thanks to this procedure, faces become deformed and stop trying to please. On the contrary, they become almost transparent, open, vulnerable, a window on a more personal world.
The lived experience during the duration of the portrait is as if the poetic "I" were emerging from behind the external face; a lightened essence of the person and the "things" that inhabit him. It's as if we were looking inside the portrait, the model, where the fear, the pain, the pleasure, the love and the loss, and the memories are. This is where the fragility of the "inner self" lies beneath the surface, exposed and laid bare with the intention of creating a moment of reflection.