Portrait of a Doll Maker

  Anouk De Groote, my friend and talented doll maker (@pantovola.art), posed for me in between the decaying walls of an abandoned farm in the Belgian countryside.

During the photoshoot the light was falling on her dress and her skin like in a Caravaggio painting. I could not help but notice how her hands, the crucial tool for her craftsmanship, were just perfect: no cuts, no calluses, no sign of tear. I happen to fall in love with details I see in the people I portray. They tell so much of one's story. Like our skins.... the biological archive of our habits and choices. 

Scars are like chapters narrating unwanted endings. Wrinkles like guardians to our learnings, proliferate where we most express who we are. The largest organ in our bodies, the skin is rarely considered as such. In my photography, its complexion and its color plays with the light to create a human landscape from which it is hard to take one's look away.