Commission a Fine Art Image – Create a Personal Symbolic Work
If you’re here, you’re probably not looking for a portrait in the traditional sense. You’re looking for something symbolic. Something personal. Something that speaks not just of how you look — but of who you are. That’s what it means to commission a fine art image. When you commission a fine art image, what you’re truly doing is giving shape to something you’ve only felt.
Each commission I take is a collaboration. The image we create together will not be a reproduction. It will be a visual echo of your story, told through light, posture, texture, and silence. My approach is based on symbolic photography — every element, from the garment to the gesture, carries meaning. You don’t need to know exactly what you want. You only need the desire to see yourself through a deeper lens.
Some of my commissioned works were inspired by:
a personal transformation never spoken aloud
a memory of loss, expressed in form
a gesture of love that couldn’t be said with words
a myth reimagined to reflect the inner self
You may be in the image — or not. What matters is that the image belongs to you. In essence, not in appearance. This is not commercial work. This is visual storytelling for those who value metaphor, subtlety, and emotional honesty. This is what makes it different when you commission a fine art image — it becomes a mirror, not a message.
The Process – Step by Step
Commissioning a fine art image often looks like this:
A personal conversation (written or live)
Mood boards, sketches, symbols
Location scouting or studio setting
Styling with symbolic intention
Creation and post-production
Delivery as fine art print and/or digital file
Every step is intentional. Every detail speaks. Each time I commission a fine art image, I begin not with a camera, but with a question.
Symbols I Return To
In my fine art photography, symbols are never decorative.
They are language. They are echoes of things that don’t speak directly — but insist on being felt.
One of the most powerful is the figure of Saint John the Baptist — not in holiness, but in silence. His decapitation becomes, for me, a metaphor for what happens when truth is spoken in a world that doesn’t want to hear it. The moment of his death is not violence — it is revelation. The absence of the head becomes presence of something else: memory, rupture, clarity.
Then there is Salome — not as the temptress, but as the innocent. The girl who dances without knowing the consequence. In my interpretation, she is both victim and vector. A child inside a myth that wasn’t written for her.
Water is everywhere in my work. Sometimes calm, sometimes impossible to escape. I photograph underwater not just for the surreal visual — but because water transforms everything. Skin. Light. Time. It suspends reality and forces us to look again.
I often return to the cloud — not as weather, but as a veil between worlds. The cloud floats. It hovers. It hides. For me, it is a symbol of the boundary between what is imagined and what is real.
And then there are dreams. Not as narrative tools, but as emotional logic. Some of my images are not built. They are remembered — from somewhere I can’t quite name. I credit dreams more than any technical tool I use.
These symbols — the saint, the girl, the water, the cloud, the dream — they form a quiet constellation inside my work.
And the best part is: you don’t have to decode them. You only have to feel when they start speaking to you.
How Much Does It Cost?
The starting point for commissioned fine art work is €1.750. Each project is unique, and pricing reflects the level of ideation, preparation, and production involved. This includes concept development, location, styling, post-processing, and optional print delivery.
Want to Learn More Before We Begin?
If you’d like to understand the philosophy and emotional intent behind this process, I invite you to read the full article: Commission a fine art image
Ready to Begin? Let’s Talk.
If something in this page resonates with you, I’d love to hear your story. Sometimes, all it takes is a single image to make silence visible. Tell me your story here.
To learn more about how fine art photography is defined historically, visit the Wikipedia article.
