Negen portretten van naaktmodel Pamela Green c. 1953 - 1954

John Everard made these nine photographic portraits of a nude model, Pamela Green. Have you ever looked at a series of portraits and wondered about the conversation between the artist and the model? I do. I imagine Everard circling around Pamela, shifting his position, tilting his lens, trying to capture something essential about her. What's so great about this work is how it reveals a process. Each image is a small shift, a slight variation on a theme. Pamela’s not static either; she's moving, breathing, feeling. Her hand gestures – the way she touches her face or extends her arm – are so expressive, almost sculptural. And think about the pose itself – the vulnerability and the trust involved in baring oneself to the gaze of another. Artists are always in dialogue, riffing off one another, whether they know it or not. These photographs feel like studies – studies not just of form, but of feeling, of presence, of the endless possibilities of seeing.