JAI ODELL: Singular Beauty

In Singular Beauty, Jai Odell pulls off the masks and captures the unique instant where one's deepest nature is revealed. The opposite of archetypes, his portraits and the relationships they create are a quest for sincerity.

More than a fashion photographer, Jai Odell is above all a portraitist. His images gives off a certain cinematographic quality. Whether they are deep in thought or gazing directly into the lens, the faces he observes make up a gallery of characters who seem to have stepped straight into neo-realist production, an Italian style of cinema that appeared just after the Second World War, favoring unique physicques and preferring people from the street to professional actors. That quest for authenticity resonates with the Australian photographer, who has been based in New York for more than a decade.
— Extract from the introduction text by Justin Morin, artist and editor-in-chief of Revue Magazine.