Photographer Peter Coulson makes light and shadow work so hard for him, and in so many different ways, that you start to wonder if he pays them overtime. A simple black and white portrait of a model is rarely simple with Coulson: like this shoot of Anne Duffy that feels more like an artful experiment in making shadow and light battle it out. Sometimes light…

Half obscured by a curtain of raven black hair, Peter Coulson‘s model Anne Duffy looks equal parts Snow White and Evil Queen. It’s a series of unfussy black and white portraits that focus on contrasts, and raw energy. Clothed in a black sheer knit by sustainable fashion label Urbandon, Duffy could quite easily slip into the Gothic subplot of the season.

This weekend’s link round-up of five worthy reads, including an interview with Paolo Roversi, a Brian Duffy retrospective, and the question of what would happen if you tracked down your ‘cooler you’. Find them after the break.