Studio portrait of a beautiful man with a strong jaw and high cheekbones, high fashion casting, tight on the head and shoulders, the whole frame flooded by a saturated scarlet source so the seamless behind him sits as the deepest scarlet. A second hard source passes through a cut aperture and throws one clean-edged broad band of neutral white light running down at an angle across both his eyes — inside that band his skin reads its own colour, everywhere outside it the skin is scarlet. The band's edge is hard and cuts straight across his eye, his cheekbone and the bridge of his nose at an angle, ignoring the features underneath. Close-shaved head, skin photoreal with pores sharp, one metal chain at the neck. Scarlet and neutral skin only, falling to near-black at the edges. Level and unimpressed, eyes up at the lens through the light, chin slightly raised.