Prompt
· English
Low angle from knee height, very close, looking up at a 27-year-old retro man of Southern African descent standing in a retro living room. He is giggling behind one hand, the eyes creased, holding a vintage smartphone with a cracked screen up to his face with a puzzled expression. The man has rich chestnut-brown skin, a heart-shaped face with a pointed chin, deep blue eyes, high arched eyebrows, and a thin silver nose ring. His hair is thick deep waves, ear-length, dyed pastel pink, in an undercut with the top swept over, and he wears a full thick beard and tortoiseshell glasses. He is dressed in a long camel cardigan over a white top. The background features a bulky TV sitting on a shelf, a rotary phone on a side table, and a cassette tape player on the shelf, all surrounding him. A patterned shag rug covers the floor beneath him. The composition shows the main figure breaking a repeating pattern that fills the rest of the frame. A narrow flashlight beam picks things out of the darkness, illuminating the man's face and the cracked screen. Shot on an instant film camera, small square frame with soft colours and a slight vignette, capturing the grainy texture and faded tones of the 1970s aesthetic.
