Artist models portrait coming of age

Child Portrait is a mirror that presents life from multiple perspectives, reflecting the various relationships between the self and others, and the issues that come with different emotions. Painting is not simply a thinlayered medium presenting one's skills, but an art of deep understanding and acceptance. The painting throws out questions, and I walk into the world of the painting with my camera to find answers with the painter across time and space.

Through the prism of his own local position, the young artist views the circumstances, conditions, and rules of the game — how to become a successful artist.

A female life-model sits for a class of male artists.

A young photographer is forced to question his sexuality when, during a portrait session, his model makes a surprising romantic advance.

A woman comes to see the village's official portraitist to be immortalised.

The history of traditional portraiture is about status and branding. With this portrait we were interested in breaking down those layers of constructed perfection. Initially in renaissance portrait painting, women are often pictured in a profile view, detached and passive. This painting was one of the first to have the female subject confronting the viewer, meeting your eyes without appeasing or smiling. There are parallels in the expressions in this film and in the painting.

A young artist falls in love with the girl who poses for him.