Portraits on insomnia

This series of portraits I made for a project to depict the feeling of insomnia.
They were initially inspired by the song Routines in The Night and the album cover to Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, but they took on a new feeling and look by the end.

Portraits are my favourite thing to create. Capturing the soul of a person and their emotions in a single image is a powerful thing and, to me, the best way to connect the subject and the viewer.
The ability to represent the deepest part of a person's psyche with a picture is one that should not be underestimated. This may be my favourite project so far. Insomnia is a feeling I relate to deeply and I know I'm not alone in that.

Getting the chance to truly show what journeys a person goes on when sleep escapes them is an honour. Being awake and alone is not necessarily a negative feeling, far from it, in my opinion. But it does carry a sense of loneliness with it that is perfect for doing some well-deserved self-reflection in a world of constant noise.