A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.
Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings. Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreotype in the middle of the 19th century was due in large part to the demand for inexpensive portraiture. Studios sprang up in cities around the world, some cranking out more than 500 plates a day.
Portrait Galleries
Faces in the Light, Light on the Faces
My lens captures occasional moments of everyday life of people on the streets of Athens and highlighting their portraits with toys of light Games of light on the faces of different people with different purposes.
Faces of the World, the World on Faces
Human portraits from all over the world.The public space plays its role, the streets the portraits are distinguished by the special cultural patchwork of people.
