A diamond cameo is a format of displaying head shots. One photographer who commonly presents their work in a diamond cameos is Henry Mullins, a Jersey photographer who photographed over 9,000 portraits of islanders from 1852 to 1873 at a time when the population was around 55.000. The record we have of his work comes through his albums, where citizens are displayed in a social hierarchy. The arrangement of Mullins’ portraits of ‘who’s who’ in 19th century Jersey are highly politicised.
Portrait of Philip Baudains, by Henry Mullins 
My take on diamond cameos
In these head shots, I used 2 soft boxes on flash heads to give the photos a softer lighting, this also helped eliminate shadows as the large soft boxes spread out the direction of the flash. I replicated Mullins use of angles and how they’re presented in the diamond.