Merriam-Webster defines a portrait as “a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face.”
Wikipedia as an “artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.”
The usually and the always beg two questions:
Does not showing a face create a fatal narrative gap in faithfully representing a person in a moment in time? How much can you leave out before it’s not a portrait anymore?

I don’t know these people, their names, their realities, their intentions.
I don’t even know what their faces look like.
I captured them initially for a gesture, a composition, a shape, a tone.
And yet.
And yet I have a story for each of them. I know exactly who each of them is.
And the longer I spend with them the clearer that story becomes.
Whether it’s true or not isn’t the point, I’m not sure it matters.

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