Portraits & Bodies

Portraits and body studies shaped by presence, gesture, light and proximity.

Close-up of a woman with closed eyes resting her face on a tattooed arm in strong sunlight.

Cinema movie set

Portrait of a smiling older man wearing a black SCUF 1895 sweatshirt against a dark studio background.

Portrait of a woman wearing a black SCUF cap and shirt against a dark backdrop.

Photographer Youry Bilak posing beside his photographs during the Scènes de front exhibition at the Mémorial 14-18 Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in Souchez.

Young Hindu woman looking directly at the camera during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival procession in Paris on August 27, 2017.

Three men in hospital gowns speaking with a woman in a white coat on the set of 3X Rien.

Portrait of a woman in a white coat with a film camera behind her on the set of 3X Rien.

Black and white close-up of a smiling man wearing rectangular glasses.

Vincent Perez smiling in black glasses and a striped shirt beside a window.

Close-up portrait of a dark-haired woman looking over her shoulder toward the camera.

Portrait of a smiling woman at the opening of What the Horizon Promises.

Close-up portrait with red hair and freckles, photographed outdoors in sunlight.

Smiling woman wearing a colourful feather crown in front of paintings.

Portrait of actress Marine Verro dressed in black against a dark background, with a row of distant lights softly blurred behind her.

Portrait of a man wearing a grey knit cap and a purple patterned face mask.

Sunlit close-up of a woman with closed eyes and a nose ring, resting against her tattooed arm.

photo by guillaume louyot © onickz artworks

clémence

A capoeira performer flipping above a park lawn, with one bare foot facing the camera.

portrait blonde parisian woman photo by guillaume louyot © onickz artworks

Black and white silhouette of a woman seated on a glowing cube with her legs crossed.

Venus short movie directed by Guillaume Louyot Onickz Artworks

Cooks working at steaming pans in the Higuma kitchen, photographed in black and white.

Close up black and white portrait of Magali lying sideways, her face emerging from deep shadow.

Close up black and white portrait of Amélie lying down and smiling toward the camera.

photo by guillaume louyot © onickz artworks

Black and white portrait of Ellis Ferrell, founder of the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club, photographed in Philadelphia.

Black and white portrait of Pierre-Jean Chabert looking directly at the camera against a dark background.

Black and white close-up portrait of Jo Prestia in a fighting stance beside a punching bag at his home.

Black and white portrait of a woman with a short fringe, making a face toward the camera.

Murda music band

Black and white close-up portrait of Joel Aron with a sign blurred in the background.

photo by guillaume louyot © onickz artworks

Black and white portrait of Angélique reclining and looking directly toward the camera.

photo by guillaume louyot © onickz artworks

Black and white portrait of a man in glasses, with a broad band of shadow crossing his face.

This series brings together intimate portraits and studies of the body, approached with a restrained, cinematic eye.

Rather than seeking pose or perfection, the images focus on character, tension, vulnerability and the way a person occupies the frame.

Available for portraits, editorial work, artistic collaborations and selected commissions.