What do we see when we look in a mirror? Mirrors are strange places, they reflect and distort reality to let us see things the way we want to see them.
We feed on beauty and illusions while looking at ourselves in a mirror that never gives back reality. Into the mirror, "Through the Glass", we live another life. It can be scary somehow but it can also be relieving when the mirroring effect resonates with our deepest needs.
Mirror derives from the Latin "Mirari" (Miror, Mirari, Miratus) that means be amazed and surprised or to look in wonder, awe, admiration at someone or something. The act of mirroring is thus something very powerful and linked to inner and ancient needs for the human race. Something that has a lot to do with contemporary photography and its meaning in the struggle between vanity and insight.
"La Belle Penseuse" is a digital photography series taken in a studio space with artificial strobe lights. Technique gave me the opportunity to create a dramatic light with very strong shadows so as to pay (my contemporary) homage to great masters painters such as George de la Tour and Artemisia Gentileschi.
