Photograph at chest height, square on to a striking woman with freckled olive skin and two heavy plaited ropes of hair standing dead centre. The ground is a saturated cobalt seamless lit hard from behind her so it blooms pale directly behind her head and shoulders and deepens to full strength in the corners. Her garment is unlit and black to the eye, one flat cut shape with a razor-crisp edge against the ground — a long-pile hooded coat swallowing the head and shoulders. One small hard frontal source reaches only her collarbone, her shoulder caps and the tops of her cheeks, everything beyond falling to unlit black, the falloff hard. Wet specular sheen on the collarbone, the face left clean so the light supplies the colour. A copper tone taken up over the lid and out onto the temple as one long soft shape is the one colour note. Her hair is tall and coarse above the crown, spiking into the ground. Cerise duchess satin bodice. Hands on her hips so the sleeves read as two matched volumes. Imperious and squared up, chin level, eyes straight down the lens, mouth closed.