Blues Folk Festival — Binic, cheek to cheek

Festival
Close color portrait of two blonde young women cheek to cheek in broad daylight; the one on the right laughs widely, a hand with red-painted nails resting on her cheek, the one on the left holds a more restrained smile. Binic festival.

Cheek to cheek, in the full light of the festival. On the right, laughter breaks open — teeth, narrowed eyes, exuberance freely given; on the left, a more guarded half-smile, the gaze angled slightly aside. Two emotional temperatures in the same frame, joined by a red-nailed hand resting on a cheek — the only frank color in the image, and its whole gesture of tenderness. Not the self-forgetting of my darker portraits, but its deliberate opposite: two faces that demand the gaze, and hold it.