Portraiture.

In certain remote cultures they refuse to have their pictures taken.
They believe it incarcerates the soul.
Judging from the shots below they might be they’re right.

You can see right inside these people. It can be an incredibly humbling experience. These pictures capture the person at a certain moment in time.

Steve McCurry is a photographer who makes this look easy.
You will be familiar with the Afghan girl’s piercing green eyes.
Who isn’t?

But what many people don’t know is that he went back and shot her again 17 years later.By taking the second picture he captured her entire life in two photographs.

You didn’t have to read it over four pages in a Guardian Weekend special.The photography was enough.The rest of his work is just as arresting.

Don McCullen is another dominating force in portrait photography.
His war pictures alone put him head and shoulders above most.

Hate, shock, surprise, terror it’s all there. And although quite often shot in black and white.Every emotion appears in full Technicolor.

Some examples of our own portrait work. Of course it’s incomparable to the two guys above.