This is an opportunity to listen to some incredible portraitists discus their craft. From contemporary to classical approaches, there is so much to find on this post that it is still amazing we can find this stuff for free. If you are interested in portraiture, from an editorial, documentary, of fine art perspective, this post will be like gold for you.

“When discussing what “makes” a great portrait with Exposure Compensation’s Miguel Garcia-Guzman, we quickly realized that we couldn’t really agree on much. So we figured we might as well ask some other people, and we sent out an email to a large number of photographers, fine art and commercial, bloggers, curators, editors, and gallerists: “What makes a good portrait? Could you provide us an example of a portrait that you really like - either from your or someone else’s work - and say why the portrait works so well for you?” to publish what we would get back on our blogs, as a collaborative effort to get a little bit closer to understanding the topic. Below is what we got back from those who managed to find the time to write something. Our thanks to everybody who contributed”