In “RED,” photographer Mike Blackett transforms a single colour into a full visual language — one that pulses with heat, softness, and quiet rebellion.

Across a series of intimate, hyper-close portraits, red becomes more than pigment; it becomes emotion incarnate. Sweeps of lacquered crimson, blurred flashes of vermilion, and whisper-thin strands of hair drifting across freckled skin create a study in tension — between vulnerability and power, stillness and ignition.

Blackett’s lens lingers unapologetically, capturing the rawness of flushed cheeks, molten lips, and fire-rimmed eyes. Each frame feels almost breathless, as though the subject has been caught mid-exhale, wrapped in the warmth of a colour that refuses to be quiet.

RED is beauty stripped to its essentials: bold, intimate, and impossible to look away from.