Maturenl 24 03 29 Irenka Photographing My Old S... -

“When you are young, you photograph for others,” Irenka says during a break, sipping tea from a chipped mug. “When you are mature, you photograph for yourself. Or for the one person who still sees you.”

Last week, in a sun-drenched studio littered with vintage lenses and worn leather chairs, photographer Marco Lensky turned his camera on Irenka—a 54-year-old former dancer he first met two decades ago. MatureNL 24 03 29 Irenka Photographing My Old S...

“We have millions of images of 20-year-olds,” he notes. “We have almost none of the same woman at 60. We are photographing history. We are photographing survival.” “When you are young, you photograph for others,”