
STORY
Policeman in Nassau is a portrait of a police officer in the Bahamas, built from Charlotte's own photographs of him and of the island.
Using her signature multi layer photographic technique, Charlotte composites many of her own frames into one image, the way a film editor assembles a scene from many takes. He fills most of the frame, head and shoulders. She met him at a parade in Nassau. He gives her a small smile.
Fish cross his face, clearest on the bridge of his nose and his throat. Pink jellyfish sit among them and spread from his cap to the bottom of the frame. All of it is on him. For a picture made in the Bahamas, there is no water in it.
The rest has gone pale. Rock and sand, bleached, running into his white tunic. You cannot see where the cloth ends and the stone begins. Green comes in at the top corners, leaves and branches.
The cap kept its edges, and so did the metal: the crowned badge, the silver number at his collar, two buttons. Everything else has come loose.
The layers brought the island onto him. The smile was already there.
This work is part of The Reflection Series, Charlotte Fonne's portraits of place, where a person is layered with the world that shaped them, remembered rather than recorded.
Each image in the composition is personally photographed by Charlotte, ensuring a genuine and unique piece. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Limited edition. Only 10 to 20 prints per size exist in the world.