Intimate Self-Portraits

Photographer Aglaé Bory is based in Paris. Her series ‘Correlations’ has been exhibited widely and received honourable recognition including second place in the Terry O’Neill Award and inclusion in the Voies Off Festival.

I love the very composed and deliberate nature of these images that take place in the everyday – retaining control of the cable release and including it in the images. The restrained background noise doesn’t inhibit the reading, in fact every component adds to it, like part of a mis-en-scene familiar to cinema where the director uses props and locations to enhance the essence of the story. From the surrounding elements, like fruit, play parks, painting utensils, we can deduce information about the existence of the subjects but they aren’t just clues, they are also symbols, characteristics and idiosyncrasies of their life together. Things that we all have equivalents of.

Via Aglaé Bory