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Portraits of Jana

Portrait · 2024
A model in a striped satin top and long black skirt stands arms folded against a red graffitied wall, a bearded man seated nearby.
The model sits smiling on a white plastic chair in the striped top and black skirt, a red hibiscus pinned in her hair. The model sits with legs crossed on a white plastic chair, small in a wide frame of whitewashed walls, shutters and overhanging branches.
Hands on hips, the model stands before an open metal gate in a long black satin skirt, stacked plastic chairs at right.
The model crouches on her heels beside a pale concrete wall, a small silver beaded purse hanging from one hand.
Close profile of the model, a red hibiscus at her ear, hammered gold hoop swinging, the striped satin top slipping off one shoulder. Reclining in the plastic chair, the model laughs off to one side, one leg kicked out, a beaded purse dangling from her raised silver flat.
The model sits back in the chair on the tarmac, one leg stretched out, chin propped on her hand, looking straight at the camera.
Photography — Habib Saleh