Daily Portrait I 2011-2012 Format: Digital video. Investigation of different approaches and limits of human portrait as one of the key genres of photographic medium is one of the main motives in works of visual artist Martin Pavel, who is working on multi-phase project Daily Portrait second year now. Project had started when photographer hired an atelier in Smichov, where he used to invite his friends for photo sessions first. Later, people started to approach him themselves. He strived to document their faces by means of classical atelier portrait, in which the focus is to capture on the photograph each particular individuality. Resulting set of portraits should then, during reading the photographs, lead to comparison of different features and personalities of individual people and of pictures of particular generation style in different socio-cultural communities. At the same time, this reading through the ''cultural'' prism had to be denied by unprejudiced photographer's approach to anyone who applied for the project and primarily by his request to photograph his objects half-naked and thus with some of their socially determining surface taken off. However, photographs have shown that it is impossible in effect. Long ago we discovered how deceptive the idiom ''clothes make the man'' is. That is to say, specific features of the society in which we are living within different communities are embedded much deeper in our bodies. //Text: Jana Pavlova copyright · Martin Gabriel Pavel · 2019 · all rights reserved