Margarita TFP, Sherif Wahba · Youssef Yasser

Studio test · Cairo, 2022 · with Youssef Yasser

A time-for-print session, the arrangement where a photographer and a model trade an afternoon for the pictures, nothing else changing hands. No client, no brief, no brand to serve. Just tailoring, a black backdrop, and the studio lights.

What follows is the layout exactly as it was designed: black-and-white chiaroscuro, a filmstrip of seven frames, and a single turn into oxblood leather before the room falls dark again.

Margarita, image 1

Time for print, no fee, no brief. A photographer and a model, a black studio, and an afternoon to find a face.

Margarita, image 3
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Tailoring against shadow. The suit disappears into the background and leaves only the light on skin.

Margarita, image 8
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One turn in colour, leather against warm grey, before the room goes dark again.

Margarita, image 11
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Margarita, image 13
Time for print · Studio, Cairo
Photography by Sherif Wahba
with Youssef Yasser · 2022