Photographer Kevin Casha’s exhibition The Likeness Project was recently exhibited at the London Hilton.

The exhibition is a collection of experimental works which have been purposely created to encourage, explore and stimulate debate on whether the portrait, as we know it, has been communicating the wrong impression of a person’s countenance and character.

The collection consists of images featuring the human element.

The photographs are unaltered and full of intrigue, requiring the viewer to look more deeply at the subtle nuances of a portrait by comparing silhouettes, facial negatives and portraits that are simply captured with natural north light entering from a window.

There has been minimal intervention by the photographer, so the subjects can offer a deeper insight into a person’s character than fictitious, unnatural and posed portraits.

Mr Casha, who is a lecturer for the Higher National Diploma course in photography at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, is also the president of the Malta Institute of Professional Photography.