Genur.art

An unnervingly intimate extreme fisheye portrait photographed on vintage 35mm film inside an old kitchen, using an 8mm lens positioned only inches from a Hispanic woman's face. Her features balloon toward the center of the image, with her nose, cheeks and mouth enlarged by the dramatic fisheye perspective while the sides of her head curve rapidly away. She wears a pillbox hat and delicate veil, a brown canvas puffy jacket with a fur-lined collar and flapper-style clothing beneath. One hand raises a pink-red apple directly beside her face, making the fruit nearly as large as her distorted head. She makes an outrageously goofy expression: both grey wolf-like eyes cross inward toward the apple, her thin eyebrows shoot upward, her mouth opens into a ridiculous rounded oval, and her upper lip stretches over her teeth while her cheeks puff outward. Her expression is deliberately absurd, as though she is mocking the seriousness of the portrait session. Behind her, the vintage stove and brushed aluminum checkered tiles recede into a warped miniature background, with a pizza box visible near the curved outer corner. Strong late-afternoon illumination, peach and brown tones, extreme facial exaggeration, spherical fisheye barrel distortion, pronounced analog film grain and strange American Gothic editorial intimacy. <lora:v8-dirty-pastel:1>