Présentation

Photographic portraits from the series ‘forget not, recollect’ 2018. Nicholas Winter presents a different take on the portrait. He places his models for an extended period of time, 60-90 seconds, in front of their own image, a reflection in glass, which in turn alters the dynamic of the face that wants to be seen on the outside to a deeper more personal ‘inner’ portrait. It is these inner faces of the subjects that interest the photographer. The portraits themselves are directly printed on glass, no paper involved, to heighten further the element of material but also to emphasize transparency and fragility.

Through the procedure, the faces stop seeking to please the sitter (subject). Rather they become almost transparent, open, vulnerable, a window into a more personal world.

The experience in the time taken for the portrait is as if the poetical ‘I’ comes to the surface from behind the outer face. A lightened essence of the person and the ‘things’ that occupy within. It is as if we look into the portrait, the sitter, to where fear, pain, pleasure, love and loss, and memories dwell.  Nicholas Winter ‘digs down’ below the surface to expose and lay open the ‘inner I’ with the intention of creating a moment to reflect, hence the title, ‘forget not, recollect’.

Parcours

Studied art and photography in England before working in the commercial field of photography. Since 2000 a more focused direction towards personal artistic photography has been explored resulting in various solo and group exhibitions.