‘Eye-D’ by Anna Gabriel
Connections, emotions, sublanguage, healing, all flow between us via the eyes.
Robert Plant
Looking into someone’s eyes for a prolonged period can simultaneously unnerve and bring closeness. Oxytocin is released and the personal boundaries we maintain are challenged.
Exploring this intimacy, photographer Anna Gabriel embarked on a photography project that features some of pop culture's most recognisable faces, shooting close-up portraits of their eyes.
With subjects including Sting, Peter Gabriel and Robert Plant, the resulting series of images offers a compelling and seldom seen perspective of some of the world's most regularly gazed-upon faces.
During a WITNESS fundraiser last year, Gabriel photographed the eyes of a number of attendees, including Pentagram partner Harry Pearce – who has been active on the human rights charity's advisory board since 1993.
Harry Pearce
Gabriel plans to release the EYE-D project as a book in 2018; it will feature subjects such as Johnny Depp, Paul Simon, Robert Plant, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Annie Lennox, Michael Stipe, Randy Newman, Tom Petty, The Edge, Bon Iver, and more.
Nadya Tolokonnikova
