A portrait is not a portrait – the tale of two portrait sessions

Shan

Shan arrived at the studio with her mother and Ian arrived with his business partner. They both arrived at different days.

Shan lives in Singapore and wanted to have more images for her model portfolio and we had decided via email to do simple portrait/beauty style shots. Ian, on the other hand, lives in Vietnam and needed a business portrait of himself for his newly founded business.

“A portrait is not a portrait” the same way they say “This is not a pipe” or, as often heard in the region, “Same same but different” .

Two very different outcomes indeed, both in photographic style, composition, as well as mood and tone. Enjoy!