Metropolitan portraits of presence and absence

© Isabelle Goeminne, 2026, all rights reserved

Absorbing the essence without the need of sight
. A trilogy in black and white.
This series explores perception beyond visibility. Faces turn away, eyes disappear, yet the city remains — layered beneath skin, posture and silhouette.
Urban structures emerge where sight withdraws: a road sensed rather than seen, a city felt instead of observed. The images reflect the idea that direction, memory and future can exist without being fully visible — sometimes lying before us, sometimes behind.
These portraits move between presence and absence, revealing how we navigate space, identity and destiny through intuition rather than sight.
This series exists also in cyanotype.