A striking, high-contrast photo taken with a Leica M10 and a 50mm lens at f/2.8, featuring Ruth Bradley, a 35-year-old blonde woman in a rumpled burnt orange 70s maxi dress, her long wavy hair tangled with dried lavender stems. She stands midway up a creaking wooden staircase in a dilapidated attic, one hand gripping a rusted banister, the other clutching a dusty ceramic mug. The background reveals peeling floral wallpaper and a cracked window letting in golden-hour light, while a vintage typewriter sits atop a dusty trunk. Her pose is defiant, shoulders squared, lips parted as if mid-sentence, with a faint smudge of ochre paint on her cheek.
