WePhoto Portrait 2020 vol 10 by Mario Buncuga

WePhoto Portrait 2020 - Vol 10 Dear all, Here comes yet another proud moment for us to be releasing the next edition in Portrait Photography under our banner called - The Series. WePhoto Group was founded in the year 2014, and since then we have come all this long for sheer passion for this art. Over the time, thanks to the continued help and support of a few colleagues with likemindedness being as enthusiastic as me while contributing to this cause - that today we have created many platforms and thematic pages to represent the various genres in photography. Today WePhoto group has the widest presence across Facebook representing almost every possible genre of photography. As of date we have thematic Facebook pages, picture boards on Pinterest, a dedicated web portal and more than 90 books published on issuu.com already. The books are simultaneously accessible on Apple Books too. This annual collection called - The Series - is made of eBooks each belonging to a specific photographic class, and includes the artwork of several authors from Italy and abroad. The one in your hands is the tenth book exclusively on Portrait Photography. Apart from the e-version these publications are available in the form of coffee table books as well. Editorial Board: Mario Bun!uga: Editor & Art Director Pankaj Anand: Review Associate Priyanka Agrawal: Review Associate Germana De Chellis: Chief Graphic Designer & Portrait Group Leader" Maria Giovanna Quaranta: Portrait Editor

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We are very excited and happy to feature these beautiful images and most of all, be able to share them with a wide range of viewers. Please spread a word around by sharing these, and recommend them to as many photo enthusiasts as you can to visit these eBooks from our webpages and links given ahead. Do leave your positive feedback on the eStores if you care. This is how you may help us grow and share our passion for photography! In this Book you can also find the links to our Facebook Group - WePhoto. Come and join the group, invite your friends to share their work in there and enjoy some of the best images from around the world.

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Gratitude My special thanks to Germana de Chellis, Chief of WePhoto Portrait domain, closely supported by Maria Giovanna Quaranta, who have helped me select images, contact authors and collect materials. They may always be found putting things together at the back office. Thanks to all the authors who have made this volume such a great collection with their valuable contributions. I also wish to thank Germana De Chellis for her impeccable layout and cover designs and to Pankaj Anand and Priyanka Agrawal, who are looking after translations to English, proofreading of drafts, and content development. I owe my thanks to our admin colleagues too, who are constantly managing and taking care of the group as well as its 12 thematic pages and online magazines and are ardently bringing forth the best photographers from across the globe. I have no words to express my gratitude to the wonderful work they do every day with great passion and dedication. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario BunÄ?uga

The Authors

Adolfo Carli

Amritpal Singh Luthra

Francesco Congedo

Henk Veldhuizen

Natasha Attard

Robert Leeuwerink

Rosario Ascione

Soura Nath

Copyright All rights are reserved to WePhoto and Mario Bunčuga for this entire eBook and to individual authors for their work included in the related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as a whole. The images and text are exclusive property of the authors who might authorize their use elsewhere at their own discretion, if contacted personally in advance. You may also order a print version coffee table book from our link through Peecho online print service. Any misuse or otherwise will be prosecuted through the prevalent rules on the subject of copyright.

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Portrait Photography

For us, the human beings, there could be nothing more ‘personal’ than a worthy portrait. You look through a pair of eyes and find every single person hiding some emotions deep within. Making of a portrait involves intricate techniques, observant eyes, and a creative mind because a portrait is not supposed to be merely an image; it rather has to hold the essence of the individual personality. Whether it is a gorgeous girl with languid eyes, a rude old man with his skin marked by time, or a child with sad eyes, their portrait has to strike the conscience of a viewer. It has to make them lose their heart. Our job as a photographer is to seize the dream of that girl and make the viewer feel the sourness of the old man’s suffering. Presented herein is a collection of some of the best works of our time.

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ADOLFO CARLI Lecce, Italia

instagram.com/francesco.congedo.3/ facebook.com/francesco.congedo.3 flickr.com/photos/138465762@N08/

I've been traveling around the world for the past 48 years and have inevitably become a great fan of photography. The photos I usually shoot are photo reportage or may quite obviously be called street photos.

Normally, I love to photograph people in their daily gestures or as engaged in whatever other occasions. This is not always easy and so possible because you must respect the local traditions, customs and cultures. Over the years I've learned that patience and perseverance help you at the end. It is particularly important to interact with people and try to get closer to them, rather than selfishly jumping over an opportunity for portraiture and in turn, terrifying or annoying them forever. I have experienced that people are normally amiable and they love to be photographed. 10

AMRITPAL SINGH LUTHRA New Delhi, India

apsluthraphotography@gmail.com facebook.com/amrit.p.singh.71 facebook.com/ApsLuthra-Photography-1377496525911763/

I was born in 1976 in New Delhi, India. My father is retired from IndianÂ Air-forceÂ and so my childhood was full of travels across the country. I am an amateur photographer, primarily into candid portraits.

By occupation I deal in wholesale and retailing of diamond and gold jewelry. I love doing candid portraits. I have won many national and international photo contests in portraiture. My portrait photographs were exhibited at Indian Academy of Fine Arts in Amritsar, Punjab and in Louvre Museum in Paris in 2015. A lot of my work is published in a variety of online and paper magazines. I have donated a number of my pictures to the charitable agencies. I am a proud Rotarian. My work has also been published in Rotary magazine. A few acclaimed painters have used my portraits as the basis of their paintings. I am willing to offer my free services to the photo enthusiasts across the globe so that more and more people may learn photography. 22

FRANCESCO CONGEDO Lecce, Italia

instagram.com/francesco.congedo.3/ facebook.com/francesco.congedo.3 flickr.com/photos/138465762@N08/

Francesco Congedo was born in Puglia, in Salento and lives in the province of Lecce, in Italy.

Always a traveler, he has been dedicated to photography and studying it since 2015. A lover of artistic and geometric design, he is looking to develop his own personal photographic technique and has always been experimenting. He travels all over the world and especially loves portraits and street photography; he is also in love with landscapes and minimal. He is always discovering humanity with the intention of photographing everything he encounters in particular across the planet. 34

HENK VELDHUIZEN Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands

www.hajeve-pictures.nl www.facebook.com/hajevepictures Instagram: hajeve_pictures

Working with people is what I like most. For a beautiful portrait photograph mutual cooperation and coordination are the keys, as are the shared ideas on what the end-result should be like. For me, making a portrait that could change the expressions of the viewer in an affirmative way, change the way one feels about themselves, something that is different from how one normally looks into a mirror, is what I take as a challenge. I am Dutch and I studied at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. I have taught percussion, keyboard and piano for thirty-five years. My experience of those days in theater productions with overall design, musical content, choreography and costumes comes handy in designing and styling my current photo shoots. I am an autodidact photographer and passionate about my profession. I try to capture the different aspects of the unique individual in front of me, with careful attention to light conditions and background. I like to create a portrait that forces the viewer to look at it for a bit longer, provoking questions about who the subject really is, and what are their emotions and thoughts. What were the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions in making this portrait photo?

In my search for more creative development within portrait photography, I have started to work with artists of several disciplines. Combining photography and other art forms through styling of clothing and accessories is a new path in my development. The art forms I am currently working with are textile design and fashion design, while others are still in the pipeline. My work has been displayed at several expositions. The dates of expositions in 2020 can be found on my website. I dedicate this collection to my models: Dennis, Batimo, Matheus, Frances, Tom, Norain, Scott Miller, Sven, Valentin, Bas.

Models in order of appearance are: Dennis Batimo Matheus Frances Tom NorainÂ Scott Miller Sven Valentin Angelov Bas Nillesen Matheus - Costume designedÂ by Ward Warmoeskerken

NATASHA ATTARD Birkirkara, Malta

instagram.com/attardnatasha/ facebook.com/Nat-Sensual-and-Emotions-Photography-36628 9653980319/ Natasha entered the world of photography very recently, just two years back to be precise. After acquiring her first camera, a couple of standard lenses and taking some specialized courses on the subject, she shared her passion in street photography and seascapes. Her eye for detail soon caught the attention of her mentor, who strongly encouraged her to move to shooting portraits and even models. Initially she blatantly refused to involve herself in this area, however, she managed to take some very good shots during an event and that was the kickoff for her into portraiture. In order to be able to shoot models appropriately and in a professional manner through learning, she engaged herself in organizing successfully a couple of photographic workshops and also attending othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abroad. Slowly but surely, through her unique style of shooting pictures and interaction, she started to leave an impression in this sector. Natasha never thinks she knows enough. She is always willing to explore, listen and learn on the subject with the aim of improving and producing high quality pictures which highlight the beauty of the subject in front of her lens. Her aim is to become a professional.

Models Natalia Kalinowska Giorgia Soleri Marina Saba Ilvy Kokomo Francesca Dei Sabrina Spina Francesca Miuccio Alexandra Andreea Guzga Alessia Marseglia

Makeup Artists Chris Attard Gordon Sultana Yanika Mugliette Maria Scerri Valeria Giaconi Antonella Pergolari Grazia Spampinato

ROBERT LEEUWERINK Zaandam, the Netherlands

www.robtopfoto.nl www.instagram.com/robtopfoto www.facebook.com/robtopfoto I am Robert Leeuwerink, operating in the Netherlands as RobTopfoto. In 2016 I started as a volunteer for a concert venue, just after finishing my course at Shaw online photography academy. After some shoots for the venue, I felt that the photography bug had already bitten me, and therefore, I started looking for models. Since my themes attracted many children and their parents, I decided to focus on only children photography. I also started a special project photographing children with braces and also with extraordinary braces like headgears. I realized that the children didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like this, but the project still kept going on. The children eventually saw exactly what I wanted to let people see, that they were beautiful even with their braces on. The project became a great success and now the children would tell it to their classmates and friends who eventually told their parents and then, everybody wanted to do a shoot with their braces. Nowadays I specialize in fine art photography and high end portraits of children, with or without braces (winks). Besides this, I still do concert photography, but this is on a lower level now.

Models in order of appearance Terra Lysanne Bodean Ivy Yentl Amy Lotte Mimi & Billy Jaylinn Luciana Dox Indy Emma Isabelle Marloes Livia Jennifer Xenia Drago

Makeup artists Muah la Tip Bergen Schoonheid Lux Genesis Makeup Claire McComish

ROSARIO ASCIONE Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italia

I have been participating in collective art exhibitions for some time now, and I have always been fascinated with the pictorial works in which, color emerges as a force

The color that brings it out for me is Red, which seems to embellish the bodies and harmonizes pictures. It enhances the body and binds all other colors, making the photo shoot well coordinated and vibrant. 82

SOURA NATH Kolkata, India

instagram.com/soura_nath facebook.com/souranathphotography5/ souraphotography25@gmail.com

I am an artist who constantly fights with his imagination. I believe in trusting my instincts to create my own personal world of photographic fantasy. My name is Soura Nath and I am a fashion and fine art photographer, born and raised in Barasat, sub-urban Kolkata, in India. Photography is my passion and I can't live without it.

My photography journey started at the age of 15 years. Fashion photography completely changed my way of experiencing life. From the moment I entered the photographic world I wanted to do it in my own creative style and use a unique language. I experimented with a variety of ideas to improvise myself. I love to dramatically play with lights and shadows to create a distinctly artistic frame. Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some of the most celebrated fashion photographers Prabuddha Dasgupta, Rafique Sayed, Jayesh Sheth, Tarun Khiwal, Akash Das, etc are my biggest inspiration. My family and friends have been my strength and have always supported me in pursuance of my career. 94

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