Starting from June 2003, I begun to try a person available to pose, preferring to search a no professional model in order to enhance the sharing of the idea of my project.

Dana answered to one of my announcements appeared on Internet and gladly accepted to participate, avoiding problems about look, and the worst but "for scripts requirements"; her commitment is one of the key factors of success of portraits.

Here below I show, without corrections, a brief comment of Dana about her feeling during the shooting.

"I have chosen to participate to this project because I'm curious and in order test me with something I've never made before: to pose and to act a dramatic role at the same time.

At the beginning, to cry on input has been quite difficult, probably because I was too much comfortable. In my daily life it is truly easy to me to cry and I didn't think to use cut an onion to cry.

After the make-up and the hairdressing made by Anna, the task assigned to Alexander was to guide to me in the acting. The experience has been exiting, also even if I laugh after some expressions of suffering: although I squeezed my eyes, by now in flames, no tear seemed to strain on the face; therefore I was forced to resume in hand onion and knife. Sometimes I asked a mirror to see the evolution of the make-up under effect of tears and water and I must say that I was horribly distressing.

I wish to thank Alessandro to have given this opportunity to me.

Dana".

Below you find a few pictures from the backstage; the "Dana: dramatic portraits" portfolio is published in the fine art gallery.

© 2003 Alessandro Tintori.

© 2003 Alessandro Tintori.

© 2003 Alessandro Tintori.

© 2003 Anna La Torre.

© 2003 Anna La Torre.

© 2003 Anna La Torre.

© 2003 Anna La Torre.