Woman Smoking At The Window

Self portrait by Diana Sosnowska

UK photographer Diana Sosnowska carefully staged this self-portrait taken in the artist’s former apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the eve of the pandemic’s spread throughout the UK in 2020.

Inspired by midcentury fashion and aesthetics, the photographer references the paintings of Edward Hopper and pays tribute to his 1961 work, "A Woman in the Sun."

Like Hopper’s piece, the central figure gazes outside the frame while illuminated by the muted light of the bleak grey horizons, both literal and metaphoric.