

A luxury fragrance campaign photograph, black studio, one hard light. Her wrist held up against her own open mouth, filling the frame - the inside of the forearm, the two tendons, the fine blue vein, her lips just touching the skin, her eyes closed above and cut by the top edge of the frame. Her other hand comes in from the side and steadies the first by the fingers, the long almond nails lacquered deep oxblood red the only colour in the picture. Her skin is matte and even and one wet trace of perfume still shines on the wrist bone. Behind her arms, thrown completely out of focus, a heavy square glass bottle stands on a black surface with one word on it in clean capitals: ZIGGY. Camera at the height of the wrist, macro close, level. one hard source from above and behind, a bright rim down the forearm, everything else black, shallow depth of field, sharp focus on the wet trace on the wrist bone. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy