Photograffiti
← № 01 — ROSTER
Close portrait through glass, condensation drops

Suki Tanaka

Verified

Vancouver · Beauty

Beauty work that keeps the skin honest: pores, highlight, the small asymmetries retouching erases. Builds one precise light and then refuses to move it.

Response < 2 h 47 shoots
Tight beauty portrait, pores and highlight intact
PLATE 01 Digital medium format · beauty dish, gridded · skin left honest
Portrait fractured by glass texture, one sharp eye
PLATE 02 Single strobe through rippled glass · no diffusion
Macro crop of a painted eye, silver pigment
PLATE 03 Mirror rig · 105mm macro · liner by Rei Ito

Selected clients

  • Vitrine
  • Rei Ito Studio
  • Glassworks

In the bag

  • 105mm macro for the last metre
  • Beauty dish, gridded tight
  • A mirror rig she will not explain

Editor's notes

Skin like a print, not a filter. Clients notice.

— Rei Ito, makeup artist

Two hours booked, done in one. Every frame usable.

— Hannah Osei, beauty editor, vitrine