Creative Direction & Photography: Mena Assad
Photography Assistants: Omar Kafrawy and Ismail Sabet
Shot on Portra 400 and Portra 800
Hand-developed C-41 and pushed one to two stops
Scanned at The Darkroom Cairo and Bayeux London
Subjects & Collaborators
Nancy Assad for Red
Mariam Makram for Blue
Hennessy for Yellow
“But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.”
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Studies in Emotion is a series of portraits that explores the
contextualization of color in our cognitive experiences and the
complex, often contradictory, nature of emotions. Using color as the
key signifier, the sitter’s emotions are left to the viewer to
interpret, challenging the viewer to be moved by more than the mere
color associations.