

A luxury fragrance campaign photograph, black studio, one hard light. A man's hand comes into the frame from the right, only the hand and half the forearm, dark-skinned, the sleeve of a black jacket at the wrist, and he has taken her wrist and turned it over to bring the inside of it up toward his own face, which is not in the picture. Her arm comes in from the left, bare to the shoulder, her hand relaxed and open, her long almond nails lacquered deep oxblood red. Their two hands are the whole picture and they are the only lit things in it. Beyond them, far out of focus, the line of her bare shoulder and jaw, and further still a heavy square glass bottle with ZIGGY cut into it in clean capitals. Camera at the height of the two hands, macro close, level. one hard source from the left, both hands rimmed, everything else pure black, shallow depth of field, sharp focus where his fingers close on her wrist.