PORTRAITURE FOR THE UNDONE
PORTRAITURE FOR THE UNDONE
In an industry driven by appearance, Portraiture for the Undone offers something more enduring: presence.
These sessions are designed to reveal who you are not through embellishment, but through attentive direction and cinematic observation. Every portrait becomes a visual ledger of personality, emotion, and environment captured with clarity, intention, and depth.
These sessions unfold with a director’s rhythm measured, focused, and precise. We begin with dialogue, grounding the session in the subject’s narrative. From there, we shape a setting that complements your individuality whether a private interior, a Parisian street, or an unfamiliar space that allows something unexpected to emerge.
Time is used as a tool, not a constraint. With both digital and film capture, we document fleeting expressions, subtle gestures, and the quiet tension that builds when someone is truly seen. This is not a performance. It’s a constructed environment that gives truth a chance to rise to the surface.
Rather than a visual souvenir, each image is approached as a scene: lit with intention, framed with clarity, and edited with restraint. The result is a body of work that feels cohesive, intelligent, and emotionally legible. These portraits hold more than likeness they hold a record of who you were in that moment, and why it mattered.
THE PORTRAITURE EXPERIENCE
ARCHIVAL CHARACTER
EDITORIAL COMPOSITION
EXPRESSION OVER IMAGE
Portraiture Is Commissioned For…
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For those who seek to understand how it feels to be truly seen. Artists, writers, thinkers, or anyone charting a personal transformation this is for the ones unafraid to meet their own gaze. A session becomes more than a portrait; it’s a record of presence shaped by honesty, vulnerability, and quiet power.
The Self-Investigator
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Some relationships move beyond words. These sessions are for partners—romantic or otherwise who share a connection worth witnessing. With an observational lens and considered rhythm, we document the subtleties between two people: the glances, gestures, and small silences that say everything.
The Paired Dynamic
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For those whose work lives in the public eye but whose essence lives deeper. Authors, founders, musicians, and cultural figures commission these portraits not for performance, but for alignment. The result is a suite of imagery that communicates who you are not just what you do with clarity, intelligence, and editorial force.
The Public-Facing Mind
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LCertain transitions deserve to be held. Graduations, reinventions, departures, returns this is where the camera steps in to honour change. These aren’t milestone photos. They’re acknowledgements of growth. A session becomes a timestamp: quiet, intentional, and forever yours.
The Moment-Marker
Each session is shaped like a scene. Shot in either a studio or an environment that holds meaning to you—Parisian streets, an apartment corner, a sunlit stairwell the experience is paced with intent. Sessions last two to three hours and unfold with precision and ease. You are not rushed, positioned, or styled into someone else. Direction is subtle, light is sculpted, and moments are followed rather than forced. This is image making with presence, not pretense.
After the session, every frame is reviewed and refined through a cinematic lens. This is not automated editing this is editing as craft. Within three to four weeks, you receive a curated gallery: emotionally resonant, technically sharp, and narratively intact. Your final work is presented digitally with options to commission printed editions whether as archival quality prints, bound volumes, or bespoke formats designed to reflect the tone of the session itself.
Every commission begins with a clear sense of purpose. Before the camera is ever lifted, we hold a one on one consultation to understand the shape of your story what drives you, where you are in your life, and how you want to be remembered. From there, we develop a tailored concept: mood references, wardrobe styling, spatial atmosphere, and emotional tone. This early alignment ensures that the session is not just a portrait it’s a cinematic study of character.
02. Session Direction
03. Curation & Delivery
01. Vision & Groundwork
The Roux Experience
Photographed at golden hour outside Rome, this session followed Sofia, a poet and translator in the midst of rewriting her first book. Wind, wheat, and silence were the only styling notes. What emerged was a series of images that read more like excerpts than poses.These sessions move beyond perfection, capturing personality, tension, and nuance in ways that feel more like film stills than portraits.
Luca arrived late, wearing a linen suit from the day before and carrying three rolls of expired film. The session took place in near darkness, just outside Montmartre, where conversation outpaced the shutter. The resulting portraits reveal someone trying to be seen without being understood.
An editorial session with Jude, a fine artist preparing for a solo show. Shot between his apéritif-lit studio and the narrow alleyways that shaped his early work, the portrait captures the dissonance between ambition and solitude—his gaze always half turned toward something not yet painted.
Camille inherited more than just her father’s Leica. This session took place in their family home—surrounded by film canisters, scores of contact sheets, and the quiet echo of a shared discipline. Shot entirely on 120 film, the images reflect both reverence and rebellion.
004. Nightfall with Luca
003. The Archivist’s Daughter
002. The Painter from Arles
001. Girl in the Dry Field
Visual Narratives
—Clara M.
“I’ve worked with many photographers, but Roux doesn’t ‘shoot’ she studies. The session felt less like being photographed and more like being translated into stills. There was no performance, no pressure, no small talk to fill the silence. Just presence.
What I received wasn’t just a gallery. It was a document of how it felt to be in that moment—sharp, quiet, and unfiltered. I look at those images and see parts of myself I’ve never seen before. She gave me back a version of me I didn’t know I’d lost.”
—Leon H.
“I didn’t realise how much of myself I’d been hiding until Roux showed me. The images weren’t polished—they were precise. I could feel the time, the weight, the air in the room. Nothing posed, nothing corrected.
She listens more than she speaks, and somehow that silence shapes the frame. I’ve never trusted anyone with a camera the way I trusted her.”
—Elena F.
“There’s no spectacle, no façade. Roux has a way of making you forget the lens exists at all. I walked away from our session with a kind of stillness I hadn’t felt in years.
What she created doesn’t just reflect me—it reflects the version of me I needed to return to.”
in their words
The Portrait Commission
€3,200
• 2-hour documentary portrait session (single location)
• Artistic direction and cinematic lighting
• Wardrobe consultation and styling prep
• 15 final editorial-grade images
• Private online gallery with 1-week access
• One mounted 8x10 archival pigment print
01. The Frame
€4,800
• 3.5-hour session (multiple locations in one city)
• Cinematic storyboarding and on-location direction
• Styling with personalized tone + prop references
• 25–30 hand-retouched images
• Private gallery with 2-week access
• Museum-grade portfolio box (8 prints, 9x12)
• Digital editorial set for personal use
02. The Sequence
€6,900
• 5-hour multi-location documentary experience
• Full styling direction + creative brief
• 40–45 fully curated, retouched images
• Private gallery with 3-week access
• Hand-bound linen album (10x10, 30 spreads)
• Set of 12 mounted prints in archival folio
• Digital narrative set prepared for publication
03. The Director’s Cut
€9,500
• Full-day hybrid session (portraiture + cinematography)
• 6–7 hour directed shoot across 2 cities
• Collaborative visioning and team-led production
• 40–50 stills + 2–3 short editorial motion clips
• Password-protected gallery and video host
• Museum-quality album (15x15, 40 spreads)
• 16x20 framed hero print (editioned)
• Delivery of full cinematic experience—both still and motion
04. The Cinematographer’s Archive
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Each commission begins with a dialogue your vision, your pace, and the legacy you’re ready to put on record.
Every story deserves to be archived with intent.
