

A luxury fragrance campaign photograph, black studio, one hard light and nothing else lit. Close: the hollow of her throat and her collarbone fill the frame, lit hard from the side, everything behind them pure black. A man's hand comes in from the right - a broad heavy male hand, larger than hers, with short blunt nails and dark hair on the back of the wrist, a black jacket sleeve above it - and he is holding the heavy glass stopper of the perfume bottle between his thumb and two fingers and drawing its wet tip slowly along the hollow of her throat. The glass tip is touching the skin and it is the sharpest thing in the picture. Behind it, where it has already passed, a narrow wet trace runs along her throat - the skin there very slightly darker and matte, drying at its edges, with no droplets and no shine. Her chin is up and turned away from him so the whole line of her throat is offered to the glass, her jaw and the underside of her chin rimmed in hard light, her eyes closed at the top edge of the frame. Her own hand, slim and pale and much smaller than his, with long almond nails lacquered deep oxblood red, comes in from the far left and rests on his forearm well above his wrist, the fingers loose - she is neither stopping him nor pulling him in. Far behind them and thrown right out of focus, the open bottle stands on black glass with no stopper in it, one word on it in clean capital letters: ZIGGY. One hard raking light from the left. Three tones: black ground, her lit throat, the highlight on the glass stopper. Camera at the height of her collarbone, macro close, level. one hard source, extreme high contrast, shallow depth of field, sharp focus where the glass touches her skin. Fine 35mm film grain.