I seem to be drawn to photographers who have a knack for capturing human vulnerability. Remember the Charlie White post?

Susanne Middelberg certainly has the aforementioned knack. Her portraits in particular seem to effortlessly x-ray her subjects to their most vulnerable.

Some of the portraits are nudes, and nudity helps make people feel more vulnerable as subjects of course, but what I like about Susanne Middelberg’s work is that there is no attempt to make her subjects conform to traditional perceptions of beauty, she brings out the beauty of her subject in a very natural way.

The image at the top of this post is the one that first brought Susanne Middelberg to my attention - from a series where she uses superhero costumes to highlight the common humanity of what goes on behind the facades we portray to the outside world.

below are some of her more intimate portriats. Check out her site for more, I’d love to tell you more about her, but all the information I could find is in Dutch or something as she’s from the Netherlands!