Face to Face

Face to Face is a fine art portrait photography book by Frank Eckgold, focusing entirely on the human face as a space of expression, presence, and quiet intensity.

Across many years of collaboration with different models, this book brings together portraits created in studios, workshops, and personal sessions. Each image is reduced to what truly matters: gaze, expression, and the subtle dialogue between photographer and subject.

Rather than telling linear stories, Face to Face presents encounters. Some brief, some long-term. Some continuous, others shaped by pauses and time. What connects them is a shared trust and a clear photographic language — honest, restrained, and timeless.

A book about faces. About presence. And about what remains when everything else is stripped away.