Thierry Telamon

I did a series of portraits with strong contrast which was the opposite of the usual images on the covers of fashion magazines — strong light, wrinkles, emotions. This series was awarded at the biannual Summer Portrait Festival in Bourbon-Lancy, Burgundy — France in 2014 and I interpreted this award as a sign indicating the way to follow. The workshop at Eyes in Progress was an opportunity to have immediate feedback from Richard Dumas on what I did. He helped me to get rid of the bad habits and conventional ideas. Now I can look differently at my pictures. Influenced by renowned photographers such as Yousouf Karsh, Patrick Swirc or Richard Dumas, I want to explore portrait photography much further in order to define my own signature following my sensibility. Emotions first, words after.