World Image Magazine Issue 31 April 2016 | Page 25

The Ladies by Nam Prasad Satsangi

The Model - Charlotte Rowe by Mike Shawcross

The Ladies by Nam Prasad Satsangi is a good
example of a picture telling a social story. It is an
Asian take on the old British style of ‘the women
gossiping over the garden fence’.

Some of the most stunning imagery in portraiture is
taken in the studio. Here the lighting and staging can
be strictly controlled. It is also an ‘all year round’
environment. Compare this to the windswept image
below.

The architecture tells us this is an exotic location,
and colours of the clothes shows the vibrancy of the
culture, but at the same time the ladies show us that
the ‘garden fence’ appears in other cultures.

Happiness by Nam Prasad Satsangi

In future issues we will continue to explore the
subject of portraiture in its various guises.
When we pose a picture we need to take care ]