Studio portrait of a strikingly beautiful woman with very dark skin, a long neck and sharp cheekbones, close-shaved head, tight on the head and shoulders, the whole frame flooded by a saturated magenta source so the seamless behind sits as the deepest version of that hue. A second hard source passes through a cut aperture and throws a soft-cornered rectangle over the upper face of neutral white light — inside it the skin reads its own colour, everywhere outside it the skin is magenta. The patch's edge is hard and cuts straight across the features underneath at an angle, ignoring them. Black cloche · one contrast-coloured leather glove · sharp-shouldered jacket. Wet and glossy in a warm neutral brown with pores sharp. Magenta 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.