Portraits

[valerique]

muter @ photo-forum.net

 

[valerique]

...You can't say to the sun: "More sun" and you can't say to the rain "Less rain" ....

muter @ photo-forum.net

 

[peppi]

^those are beautiful, thanks

I love these, they're from http://www.voimauttavavalokuva.net/english.html , the idea behind these is just so wonderfull, here's a little explanation from the site:

The Loveliest Girl in the World is a cooperative photography project by a photographer, art and social educator Miina Savolainen and ten girls from a Home. It has continued for seven years. The project is based on the idea of “empowerment” and the belief that everyone has the right to feel unique and special. Young people who have grown up in a Children’s Home have always had difficult experiences of rejection in their childhood. Although their parents’ problems are the reason why children are taken into care; children may feel responsible for events and may think that they are ‘bad children’. While working in a Children’s Home in 1998, Miina Savolainen began photographing the girls in order to show them how special they are.

The basis for these portraits has been the collaboration with the young person. The visual worlds have been planned together and the pictures have been shot the way the girls would like to be seen. The photo-shoots were organised by the girls and Miina Savolainen together. The girls decided the location for the shooting as well as the season, the type of daylight and about the clothes they would wear. These photographic trips often took months to plan and organise, but once the girls got to pose for the camera deep in a blossoming forest or in a blinding snowstorm they got to experience themselves a bit more special than their everyday selves. During years the photographing has become an intimate and profound way to interact with the girls. This exceptional long-term relationship can be seen in the special kind of openness and intimacy in the directional content of the photographs.

 

[peppi]

more from same source as above

 

[peppi]

this redheaded girl is so gorgeous and the little fairy girl is adorable..they are all beautiful

same source

 

[Sweets]

wow what an amazing project! thanks for sharing!

 

[tott]

Amazing pics everyone, keep it up!

 

[valerique]

awesome project! beautifully done

 

[ChrissyM]

thanks so much for those peppi!! so many of them are really beautifully done... i especially love the ones where the girls are reflected in the water in post #24...
sounds like such a great project

 

[porcelaindream]

I love the ones where it looks like she's walking on water..

 

[valerique]

Shakespear

bassick.org

 

[peppi]

all by finnish photographer Mikko Ryhänen

http://www.mikkoryhanen.org/

 

[valerique]

^nice

the one and only Salvador Dali










bbc.co.uk

 

[peppi]

those are great!^




taken by finnish snowboarder wille yli-luoma
from snowboard.com

 

[ChrissyM]

i like how the personalities really shine through in a lot of these shots...
especially the inimitable salvadore dali

 

[Colette_B]

I have to further investigate this photographer, i think this is an amazing portrait...
www.rafsimons.com

 

[Estella*]

might be by david sims, no?
edit, sorry i just saw its willy vanderperre but i do think we have a thread on him

 

[Estella*]

here it is, i wish it was longer:
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forum...rapher-29951.html?highlight=willy+vanderperre

 

[Colette_B]

...Peter Lindbergh's cover of Images of Women , absolutely breathtaking...
WWW.AMAZON.COM

 

[jennifer~]

An image for Vogue (could it be of Lisa Fonssagrives..?), photographed by Irving Penn... you've probably seen this one somewhere before

carolelieff.com