Samir Rakhmanov, Portrait of Galina Under a Red Light, 2019 
Oil on canvas, 70 × 60 cm (27.6 × 23.6 inches) 
© Samir Rakhmanov
 
"I started working on this portrait in the beginning of my graduation year; it was the first of the building blocks that led to my final work, Parisian Cafe. At that time, I did not know what my graduation project would be like, and I was searching for inspirational compositions, moods, images. Galina was one of the first to pose for my project."—Samir Rakhmanov