Lond-based photographer Brock Elbank is on a journey to photograph 150 freckled people for his next exhibition in 2017. He wants to celebrate beauty and, since mid-2015, he has succeeded with 90 striking portraits.
"I’ve always loved freckles," said Elbank. "What I find interesting about individual characters that I have been fortunate enough to photograph is that many have struggled with their freckles since their infancy and either hated them, or grown to live with them or even like them in adulthood."
"One subject I shot in September for the series spent a good three to four hours with me after the portrait, talking about how they felt as a kid, bullied, rejected at school for their appearance, which really shocked me as I found this individual amazing-looking." If you want to be featured, you can still contact him!
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High use of contrast and possibly high def, Like the face but it would be even prettier in a natural setting and natural background as motive, ofc all photographers are different
Very interesting freckles patterns here, almost like someone threw a paint brush full of paint on her face, beautiful woman
i love how it is mostly just the stripe under his eyes and on his nose. :)
I have to say I have not seen many people with freckles, & that's worth celebrating being a person with freckles, I would not forget your face with all your life written on it
Seems like a lot of these have been edited to enhance the freckles.
I think is not Edit, i have seen freckled people that has so dark freckles and they are more noticiable under certain lights. (could be a special ilumination to enhance the contrast)
Beautiful pictures and of course they have been edited to enhance the freckles. It take little effort to do so. I took a portrait of my boyfriend (redhead full of freckles) I edited in Adobe Lightroom and he said: 'do I have THAT many freckles?' Clarity and contrast are powerfull tools ;).
Same thing that what is meant by editing. Making thsm stronger somehow
No, that's the point. This is how they really are. Contrast make help them show more.
And what about the eyes..? All this is false...
Some are beautiful, some look a lot more like sun induced skin damage. As someone with skin cancer I am not convinced we should be praising the effects of sun exposure
well, whether their skin is damaged or not, i think the beauty of each one shines through.
Yes, freckles will appear wherever the sun has touched the skin. As a person covered with freckles I know this as fact. I always wear the highest number waterproof sunscreen to avoid skin damage, but the freckles still appear. I had a dermatologist ask if she could take a picture of my "skin damage" for a presentation. Can't tell you how great that made me feel. Needless to say that was he one and only time I went to that dermatologist.
I think JoanBenson is at least partly right. I've bee having freckles all my life, similar to some on those in pictures, unless I've started to use spf regulary every single day in a year. Since then, my face is coplmetely clean. The conclusion: my freckles were, although cute and charming, the sign of sun induced skin damage. I'm almost sure that people with freckles are more prone to skin cancer than others.
What? who said anything about being sun exposed? I have freckels and i have them because they are who i am. Not because of the sun. Yes when i go out in the sun they tend to be more prominet but they're there in my skin. Some people try to find negative in anything that's ever said or written.
Ppl prone to freckles like that are surely not excessive sun bathers. I would't see it in that way. But very sorry for you.
It's not like these people are going out and deliberately cooking themselves like the oiled leathery wrinklebags you see on so many beaches in various countries. You can see most of them have freckles that are largely confined to their faces, ergo they protect themselves when they can and where they can. No one is celebrating the effects of sun exposure, we are simply celebrating people who go about their lives who just happen to choose to not go overboard with covering themselves up with some burqa type of garb. As unfortunate as it is that you have to deal with skin cancer, your reply sounds at the very least self centered, if not envious. This isn't about you.
Note most of them are redheads. Hereditary and in the genes - not execessive sun exposure. I speak as a proud freckled person, not as freckled as some here, but freckled people know they don't tan - they burn. Sun exposure is something they avoid.
I'm a person with A LOT of freckles and I tan easily.
actually beauty is not on the outside. it is located INSIDE
I can see that. wow. But me, and I'm sure many others were born with freckles
Nobody is born with freckles. All freckles are scars from sun damage. For a person with skin cancer, your knowledge of skin is limited...
Freckles are hereditary. I had freckles since a small child and wasn't in the sun. My sisters had them, so do some of my children. Also some of my Aunts and Uncles have them. Saying they are from sun damage is ignorant.
There is always beauty regardless but I THINK the photos are quite enhanced by the photo editing program from the skin tone and the noise level shown.
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not always...there are women who are downright ugly
Seems like a lot of these have been edited to enhance the freckles.
I think is not Edit, i have seen freckled people that has so dark freckles and they are more noticiable under certain lights. (could be a special ilumination to enhance the contrast)
Beautiful pictures and of course they have been edited to enhance the freckles. It take little effort to do so. I took a portrait of my boyfriend (redhead full of freckles) I edited in Adobe Lightroom and he said: 'do I have THAT many freckles?' Clarity and contrast are powerfull tools ;).
Same thing that what is meant by editing. Making thsm stronger somehow
No, that's the point. This is how they really are. Contrast make help them show more.
And what about the eyes..? All this is false...
Some are beautiful, some look a lot more like sun induced skin damage. As someone with skin cancer I am not convinced we should be praising the effects of sun exposure
well, whether their skin is damaged or not, i think the beauty of each one shines through.
Yes, freckles will appear wherever the sun has touched the skin. As a person covered with freckles I know this as fact. I always wear the highest number waterproof sunscreen to avoid skin damage, but the freckles still appear. I had a dermatologist ask if she could take a picture of my "skin damage" for a presentation. Can't tell you how great that made me feel. Needless to say that was he one and only time I went to that dermatologist.
I think JoanBenson is at least partly right. I've bee having freckles all my life, similar to some on those in pictures, unless I've started to use spf regulary every single day in a year. Since then, my face is coplmetely clean. The conclusion: my freckles were, although cute and charming, the sign of sun induced skin damage. I'm almost sure that people with freckles are more prone to skin cancer than others.
What? who said anything about being sun exposed? I have freckels and i have them because they are who i am. Not because of the sun. Yes when i go out in the sun they tend to be more prominet but they're there in my skin. Some people try to find negative in anything that's ever said or written.
Ppl prone to freckles like that are surely not excessive sun bathers. I would't see it in that way. But very sorry for you.
It's not like these people are going out and deliberately cooking themselves like the oiled leathery wrinklebags you see on so many beaches in various countries. You can see most of them have freckles that are largely confined to their faces, ergo they protect themselves when they can and where they can. No one is celebrating the effects of sun exposure, we are simply celebrating people who go about their lives who just happen to choose to not go overboard with covering themselves up with some burqa type of garb. As unfortunate as it is that you have to deal with skin cancer, your reply sounds at the very least self centered, if not envious. This isn't about you.
Note most of them are redheads. Hereditary and in the genes - not execessive sun exposure. I speak as a proud freckled person, not as freckled as some here, but freckled people know they don't tan - they burn. Sun exposure is something they avoid.
I'm a person with A LOT of freckles and I tan easily.
actually beauty is not on the outside. it is located INSIDE
I can see that. wow. But me, and I'm sure many others were born with freckles
Nobody is born with freckles. All freckles are scars from sun damage. For a person with skin cancer, your knowledge of skin is limited...
Freckles are hereditary. I had freckles since a small child and wasn't in the sun. My sisters had them, so do some of my children. Also some of my Aunts and Uncles have them. Saying they are from sun damage is ignorant.
There is always beauty regardless but I THINK the photos are quite enhanced by the photo editing program from the skin tone and the noise level shown.
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not always...there are women who are downright ugly