The Martyrs (2024-2025)

This is the project I am working on now.
Around 1600, the Spanish/Greek painter El Greco did a series of portraits of the twelve apostles. I have always been particularly impressed by the cloaks, their impressive billowing presence, as if all the eloquence was in them.
I started a series inspired by these cloaks. It will also be Twelve. I call them The martyrs, to pull them out of the Christian sphere. They represent all those who have been sacrificed for what they stood for.

studio shot
The stiff vynil I work with I fold again and again into a model of a cloak, as well as a pietà or a carrier.

All Photographs will be printed on ultramatt archival paper on
90 cm x 134 cm