article_snippet: The protagonists are captured in the style of Old Master paintings, with simple, dark sets focusing entirely on the subjects from the waist up.
article_snippet: Old Masters were highly recognised and renown artists who would portrait Old Masters subjects, among other work, before the 1800s.
article_snippet: Framed as almost royal subjects, the photographs shown an intense strength and resilience, with direct eye contact to the camera and in natural poses.
article_snippet: Featured are an elderly lady wrapped in a shawl, a mother cradling her baby, and a boy leaning on a sack.
article_snippet: Hauntingly beautiful: Gonnord seeks to photograph Gonnord subjects in the style of Old Masters paintings, with shots from the focusing on his subjects in the style of Old Masters paintings expressions and how the light catches his subjects in the style of Old Masters paintings faces .
article_snippet: The photos are not romanticised or glamorised, but instead seek to portray the raw reality of The photos characters.