Suzanne Jongmans: Renaissance Portraits from Discarded Packaging

Suzanne Jongmans builds Renaissance-era portraits from packaging foam, fruit netting, and copper coils salvaged from broken appliances, printing them as limited editions on Hahnemühle inkjet paper. The contrast between discarded plastic detritus and formal velvet drapery, posed against deep studio backgrounds referencing da Vinci and da Messina, is what lifts these beyond costume photography into something worth a second look.