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Hard Light

Black and white, sun and stone: one woman, a white shirt dress and a black coat, cut into shapes by raking shadow. We let the light do the styling.

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Black and white portrait of a woman with slicked hair, eyes lowered, in a slice of light
Woman with slicked hair and a black blazer over a white collar, hand at her chest
Woman in a white gathered shirt dress climbing pale stone stairs in hard sunlight
Close crop of a white shirt dress with ruched waist cut by deep black shadow
Hands clasped behind the back of a figure in a sheer black dress on cobblestones
Woman in a long black coat standing in a stone courtyard among low wooden benches

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