September in Oxford. Graduation caps and gowns. The specific quality of a crowd of people who have all done the same difficult thing and are now doing something easy together.
The large group portrait — approximately eighty to a hundred graduates in black caps and gowns on outdoor risers — is the image that provides scale. The couple portrait is the one that ends up on walls.
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THE COUPLE PORTRAITS
The couple portraits placed a relationship into the session: two people in graduation attire, the stone and Oxford paving behind them, the rest of their lives ahead. These are the images that end up on a wall.
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THE CEREMONY AND THE GROUP
Ten seconds of ceremony that represents three or four years of effort. The large group portrait — approximately eighty to a hundred graduates in black caps and gowns on outdoor risers — is the image that contextualises every individual portrait in the session.
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IMAGE
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A large group of graduates in black caps and gowns stand on risers at an outdoor ceremony. The whole day in one frame.
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A head-and-shoulders portrait of an older woman with short white hair and glasses — the family member whose pride is visible
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