A portrait is not a likeness. It is an encounter — between light and the architecture of a face, between the moment the shutter opens and whatever has been accumulating in a person for decades. Something true lives in the human face that ordinary looking misses. The beauty that flattery reaches for is always slightly beside the point — the real thing is quieter, more particular, and far more enduring. A great portrait finds it. It says: I saw you — not the version you prepared for the world, but the one that surfaced, briefly, when you stopped performing it. That is the face worth making permanent.
If you’d like to explore a sitting, I’d be glad to hear from you. I travel throughout Vermont. See the contact form below.
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