It’s generally underestimated how good a simple portrait, against a plain background, can look, so long as the lighting and styling is done right. These simple portraits look great as prints on walls too, because they add to the style rather than cluttering it. The way Soph Xu almost seems to challenge the camera here has, of course, its own power.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
