Unpublished picture (from a portrait shoot for Intersection magazine) representing the French filmmaker and actress Valerie Donzelli and the actor Jeremie Elkaim (Paris)

My friend the painter Eddy Saint-Martin at my place watching a Wolfgang Tillmans book (Paris)

2 previous portraits representing Eddy have been posted on Portrait Lab the 04/07/2011 and 31/07/2011

Payam Sharifi is a brilliant American intellectual with Iranian roots. Last time I saw him (a few years ago) he told me about his life in an amazing apartment in Moscow. Now he's back in Paris as an innovative and sucessful artist (Paris)

Selfportrait with Kathy 4 (Paris)

 

 

 More info about the SELFPORTRAIT WITH KATHY project in the 21/04/2012 post

Jonas, standing on the platform of the Trouville's train station, photographed through the window of the 9.34 pm train to Paris (Normandy)

Sylvie Pomaret's smile is moving. She's directing her own art foundation and collaborates, as a poet, with visual artists she likes. When I visited her, this afternoon, at her Parisian flat, what she told me about her life sound like a novel. After hard times, she seems to live a magnificent rebirth (Paris)

I found Mati extremely beautiful, today. I asked her if anything special happend in her life. "I don't know", she said. "I'll have to think about it..." (Paris)

4 previous portraits representing Mati have been posted on Portrait Lab the 23/09/2011, 05/02/2012, 13/04/2012 and 10/07/2012

Sandra Bechtel is a talented writer and poet. She's a lovely and smart woman. While talking to her, I sometimes felt like standing in front of a mirror (Paris)

Two of my "desert friends", Julien Filhol and Daniel Boust, this afternoon (Paris)

A talk with Giasco Bertoli on Trouville's beach about men and women, and the power relationships between photographers and independant magazines publishers (Normandy)

A previous portrait representing Giasco has been posted on Portrait Lab the 21/07/2011

My dear son's 8 years birthday. And a view from underneath the traditional Deauville's beach fireworks on French national celebration day (Normandy)

I was supposed to meet her on this rainy afternoon, but she didn't come... (Paris)

After work drink with Claudia Van Schaik (just back from Berlin) who used to assist me two years ago (Paris)

A drink with my friend Mati before going to a Senegalese movie showing (Paris)

3 previous portraits representing Mati have been posted on Portrait Lab the 23/09/2011, 05/02/2012 and 13/04/2012

Julie, Jonas and me visiting the very spiritual Gerhard Richter's Beaubourg exhibition. And bubble in the Paris sky

The first time I met Martin Bethenod, he was editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris. After what he co directed La FIAC Paris with Jennifer Flay. He is now in charge of the Palazzo Grassi (François Pinault's art Foundation in Venice). It was really nice to see him again in Paris for a drink

The Creative Director Aldo Buscalferri during a portrait shoot (Paris)

Two previous portraits representing Aldo have been posted on Portrait Lab the 04/08/2011 and 18/12/2011

Lady with a very personal make-up in my neighbourhood (Paris)

Unpublished. Man affected by malaria - Douala, 2003 (Paris)

CELEBRATION

FIRST BIRTHDAY!

Today ends the first year project of this blog.
I have been doing my best to feed the blog on a daily basis during the last 365 days.

The bet has been taken up!

I have to admit that I enjoyed the exercice and  now I don't feel like it should end.

As a matter of fact I have decided to extend Portrait Lab for an unspecified periode updating frequently. Updates won't be made daily anymore but according to availability. In other words I will be posting when I can.

The content is going to remain being made up of various portrait forms. Though, the models are going to be more targeted, and of a more drastic artistic aspiration.

Wishing to pursue sharing my human and visual experiences  with all those who are up to it.....

Enjoy!

Henry 

Translated from French by Adélaïde Gomes

Lab test sheet from a shooting for Artreview representing a meeting between the American stage Director Peter Sellars and Autralian artist Linette Wallworth - Paris, 2008 (Paris)