Lynn Karlin, Tom, 2017, Inkjet print, 16 x 10.5 inches, $800.

Noble contours, elegance, and mystery are features I look for when choosing a face for Still Lives: Stories in Profile. Each portrait has a timeless quality and could be from any era. I document the seldom seen side view and seek to capture the moment when a personality and a story emerge in its simplest form. Rarely do we look at others or ourselves in profile. - L. K.

Lynn Karlin is an internationally published photographer originally from New York City, now living in Belfast, Maine. A graduate of Pratt Institute, she was the first woman staff photographer for the trendy fashion journal Women’s Wear Daily and W. Her on-going profile portrait series, which she began in 2017 won a Maine Arts Commission Project Grant, was featured in FotoNostrum magazine, and won awards with Lens Culture, Julia Margaret Cameron and the Prix de la Photographie.