article_snippet: One by one, these people sat solemnly to be photographed.
article_snippet: It was these people time to be acknowledged.
article_snippet: There was gravity, earnestness to the way these people posed.
article_snippet: This was the moment these people story would be registered.
article_snippet: The studio gave the photographer an opportunity to meet the photographer subject matter eye to eye, giving each person their deserved attention.
article_snippet: Aesthetically, The studio created an aura around each person, beaming light on the photographer or her personal narrative.
article_snippet: So I build classic photo studios like they have in any small towns in the African continent or in Europe ... just to give people a little bit of the feeling people are special for a short time and that someone really photographs people in an official way," ten Hoopen said.
article_snippet: I really can appreciate old portraiture ... when people got people portrait taken in a way that was loaded, I think, with respect and it was a very serious moment," someone who is holding her hand said.