Challenge
Make a willing subject’s portrait series
Whena willing person wants a portrait project
Make three connected portraits with a willing participant.
- Window
- Two weeks; two sessions and an edit.
- Mission steps
- Agree purpose, comfort and sharing.
- Make a face portrait, meaningful detail and portrait in context.
- Choose three together; refine consistently.
- Give the participant the private series.
- Finish
- Three connected portraits accepted by the participant.
- Adapt
- Use self-portraits; keep or reshoot unwelcome images.
Start tiny
Agree the purpose; make one portrait.
SafetyAgree before photographing and sharing; stop if asked.
Evidence grade CPractitioner method or editorial idea
Cynthia Way / International Center of Photography, Focus on Photography (2006), Part I, The Language of Photography. Read the source ↗ Gary Small / Nikon, Take Better Portraits. Read the source ↗ Savannah Dodd / Photography Ethics Centre, The Fundamentals of Photographic Consent (2022). Read the source ↗ Practice, cue and time are editorial adaptations of documented methods.
Challenge: A bounded mission with a clear finish. It can combine practices over days or weeks.
