Balaguer’s background in fine arts also greatly impacts her work. This preoccupation with mystery has remained a constant in Balaguer’s photography - her past work being dominated by the subconscious and the limits of dreams. Similarly, Balaguer’s images are shrouded in mystery and ambiguity - it is up to the viewer to interpret who the woman is, what kind of life they lead, where they may come from and so on. That a portrait photograph should only tell you a one-dimensional narrative is something that Michals has worked his entire career to challenge. The richly colored clothing and backdrops adds a sense of sophisticated depth to the imagery, while the emotional void of not connecting with a subject’s face make it feel distant and opaque.
FACELESS PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES
With that in mind, this series of faceless portrait photography by Andrea Torres Balaguer succeeds in feeling both provocative and coy, composed yet also lighthearted in it’s paint stroke addition. However, there is a growing trend in art and photography that.
It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph” When it coes to portraits, most of us immediately think of a face with eyes, nose, and lips. “I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know.
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