Lou Ros

I enjoy these por­traits by Lou Ros because they are a skew on the stan­dard por­trait. While they don’t offer a dif­fer­ent angle to the human face, Lou has made his work visu­al­ly inter­est­ing by frac­tur­ing the fea­tures, repeat­ing lines and shapes, and using expres­sive mark-making. 

There is just enough infor­ma­tion giv­en about the sub­jects that we can start to under­stand their per­son­al­i­ties, which I think is indica­tive of a suc­cess­ful por­trait. There is a cer­tain light in the eyes. 

All images via his web­site.