​This portrait session took place in 1994 for the contributors’ page of GQ UK. Using my Canon F-1, I shot a single roll of 35mm film with available light, a set up at Polly's home in South London.

 

Unseen since its original purpose, the work is revisited here in the form of a contact sheet.

 

Rather than isolating one definitive image, the sheet re frames the portrait as a session unfolding — capturing both the immediacy of the exchange and the playful, collaborative spirit behind it. In this way, it becomes both a rediscovered document and a portrait in its own right, revealing process, friendship, and context as integral to the portraits history. 

 

Supersized, the contact sheet commands physical presence, and at the same time, the format encourages close looking.

 

Bronwyn Kidd 

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