Taken in April 2019, this portrait is a photographic interpretation of the recurring theme in religious painting and sculpture: Virgin and Child, or Madonna and Child.

It features lallement.eth's three-month-old son being breastfed by his mother in a purely chiaroscuro style.

The immortality of a moment lost forever.

"Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all life forms, the world would be static, rhythmless, danceless, mummified."
Alan Watts.

Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar

Kodak TRI-X 400

Yellow filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3

HD film scan 5357x5357 px