About

Since the mid 1990s, Joni Brenner has worked with four long term models, all men. Common to all four experiences is a specific relational act of producing portraits: two bodies in a room, engaged in an encounter rooted in looking and being looked at. These dialogical encounters are repeated and durational ¬– each sitting lasting a few hours, once or twice a week and over many months or years.
Fundamentally different from any other kind of portrait making setting, the exchange of regards allows for a type of immersive, intersubjective likeness to emerge rendering portraits that are ambient and …