Portrait & Performance, 2025

SØRENLYNGHANSEN

A Danish cellist and conductor photographed between classical rigour and contemporary crossover.

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(03) / Overview

Søren Lyng Hansen moves between classical discipline and contemporary expression. The imagery had to hold both: intimate, precise, and alive.

I built a portrait set that could shift from stillness to performance, using light and negative space to echo the architecture of his music.

Stills and film work as one campaign: the same tonal world, the same restraint, the same sense of a person mid-thought.

Concept

The frames lean on shadow and texture: wood, fabric, breath. Nothing decorative for its own sake.

Every composition leaves room for the music to happen in the viewer's imagination.

Process

Portrait session, editorial select, retouch, and a film cut that extends the same visual grammar.

Art Direction

We defined the portrait world first: intimacy over spectacle, and a visual grammar that could carry both stills and film.

Sony A7IV

Session days built around natural light and restraint. Composition held back enough room for the subject to breathe.

Editorial Selection

Portrait work lives or dies in the select. I kept frames where expression, light, and negative space felt like the same person.

Adobe Suite

Retouch and grade in Photoshop and Lightroom until the set felt like one continuous session, not a highlight reel.

DaVinci Resolve

The film was cut to mirror the stills: same pacing, same light, same quiet confidence in the frame.

Motion

Performance film. Cut and graded in DaVinci Resolve.

Stills

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Sony A7IVSigma LensesAdobe PhotoshopAdobe LightroomPhotographyVideographyDaVinci Resolve

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