100 Strangers: 171 Nerea

Having not done a street portrait for a while, I wanted to take advantage of the sudden relatively good weather and headed out into Soho to see what I could get.

 

Almost immediately I saw Nerea come out of the Photographers Gallery and i knew I had to ask her for a portrait. She was immediately receptive and luckily I had this wooden background which complemented her clothes.

 

This was shot with natural light with a reflector underneath to fill in the shadows.

 

Nerea is of Spanish origin and works in Finance. We had a great chat as she is about to go to India and I was able to give some advice.

 

Amine, my last strangers question, was to describe her perfect partner. She described her perfect partner as someone who she could be herself with and someone with whom she could comfortably be in her bubble. I asked her whether she was an introvert based on her answer but she considered herself to be an extrovert. I told her that introverts get their energy from having me time - she then agreed maybe that she's an introvert.

 

Her question for the next stranger was "If you could be invisible, what is the first thing that you would do?"

 

Thank you Nerea for being a wonderful stranger. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the

 

100 Strangers Flickr Group Page

 

Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal

 

or visit my website

 

As always constructive criticism is appreciated.

 

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