How does one become a portrait photographer? Patience, perseverance.
Being a portrait photographer has to be one of the coolest jobs on the planet. Every day they shoot, they dare meeting someone and having them reveal themselves to them and the world through their camera.
Sometimes, their subjects will be famous and the challenge will be to try and make a connection, uncover something about these well known faces that has not been seen before, shed a new light on their identity through impression or reconstruction, all of that in a very limited and controlled period of time.
Oftentimes and maybe even more thrilling, the people will be anonymous and the work will be to gain their confidence, get them to open up and receive this incredible gift of trust.
Beyond that, portraits can also tell so much more about the people in the photographs who are acting as mirrors to complex social realities and can serve as testaments to history in a similar way as reportage photography.
