Persefoni - Portraits of an artist

Portrait session with Painter and Model Persefoni Nestorudi in Stockholm, Sweden

"Portraits capture the soul" they say...

Persefoni is a multitalented individual - she's a model and a painter and she's amazing at both. Check out her pages here and here. I connected with her through a common friend on facebook. She's an artist, based in Stockholm and her paintings have graced the walls of many a gallery here. We got chatting and I proposed the idea of shooting a few portraits of her in her studio where she paints.

For an artist, this is extremely personal. This is like exposing one's inner-real self to the world. As she puts it in her own words...

"This is the most intimate shoot I've ever done and I have been almost naked in front of the camera in other sessions. But this is who I am, in my space, standing with my paintings... vulnerable and a little scared. But still I am proud and I feel gratitude every day towards the people around me who believe in me and also towards myself... because I took some important decisions a few months back."

And I'm thankful to Persefoni for sharing this intimate moment with me in my pictures. Its a unique challenge, especially for me as a portrait photographer, to be able to capture that inner self of a person I am photographing.