When I help couples plan a wine-country proposal, I pay attention to the pieces that gently shape the experience:

Anderson’s approach to these portraits immediately brought to mind other moments in photographic history where realism was used not to flatter, but to expose. Diane Arbus’s insistence on discomfort and confrontation is one touchstone; August Sander’s unadorned typologies are another

Great dating-profile portraits do not require stunning scenery, but they do require that a brief moment in time captures some essence of you.