Prompt
· English
Long-lens view from across the street of a 46-year-old woman alone, her face deep in concentration with her tongue poking from the corner of her mouth, her angular face with hollow cheeks turned slightly away while a single wet red string of her bikini rests directly on her nipple. Blurred green leaves occupy the immediate foreground, creating a soft natural frame around the magnified water droplets on the fabric, while passers-by appear as indistinct blurred shapes in the mid-ground. The 46-year-old woman is of Eastern European descent with light beige skin, a soft heavyset build, and an angular face with hollow cheeks; she has amber eyes, soft rounded eyebrows, a small birthmark on one cheek, and thick black-framed glasses. Her auburn hair is styled in loose barely-there waves, chin-length, and pulled into long box braids. She wears a red string bikini, the specific string on her nipple glistening with water. The composition places the woman’s face, the blurred foreground leaves, and the distant passers-by as the corners of a triangle. A lamp on the side turned towards the camera provides broad light, illuminating the wide side of her face fully and highlighting the texture of the skin under the wet cloth. Shot on an instant film camera with a small square frame, soft colours, and a slight vignette, capturing the grainy texture of the film and the shallow depth of field that keeps the focus tight on the wet fabric and skin.