Lepidoptera Portraits, Inside a miniature portrait studio  Photographs / Information

“LEPIDOPTERA PORTRAITS, Inside a miniature portrait studio”, is a portrait photography project. This project approaches photographing butterflies and moths in a broader than just natural history context. In this series butterflies and moths are shown using the means and aesthetics that are normally used photographing portraits of people. The basic approach is a neutral background and studio lighting in a miniature studio custom designed for these small scale figures.

This body of work explores the facial expressions and emotions of these subjects and the viewers response to seeing these insects in this unusually “humanlike” context. Most of the images in the series are individual portraits, pictures of couples and group portraits. Image titles consist of the Latin name of the specimen and the year the image was created.

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