Every successful portrait photography session is an adventure of mutual discovery and exploration lived by the photographer and the subject. It makes no difference whether the encounter lasts five minutes or five hours, whether it takes place in a studio or on the street, whether the assignment is paid or unpaid. To make great images, subject and photographer must both be willing to play, to take risks, to create something together. It’s intense.
For a photographer, it’s a huge privilege to be given such intimate access to strangers, and I’m acutely conscious of the responsibility I bear to every person whose image I make.
I’m also enormously grateful to every client who entrusts their photographic project to me. I worked with the Centre Socio-Culturel Tunisien in Bruxelles to create photos for an exhibition about the Tunisian diaspora in Belgium. I made two series of images – a set of black and white portraits and a second set (in colour) documenting some of the Belgian businesses with owners of Tunisian origin.
The exhibition opened in Brussels in January and will tour in Wallonia and in Tunisia during 2020.