“Tete-a-Tete: Intimate Portraits of Adolescent Sons”

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Category: Photography

Martine Fougeron
United States
website: www.martinefougeron.com

Description: Tête-à-Tête is a series of intimate portraits of my two adolescent sons and their friends begun in the fall of 2005 in New York City. Tête-à-Tête is an on-going series, naturally staged, which reflects the face-to-face of the mother-photographer and the private world of two adolescent sons. This work explores adolescence as a liminal state, between childhood and adulthood, and between the feminine and the masculine. My inspiration comes from Dutch painting, especially Vermeer's mysterious domestic scenes and Rembrandt's expressive tableaux. I am also influenced by conventions of cinema, especially the dramatic effects of set lighting.