Applying paint, goldleaf and charcoal, Azzopardi crumples her photographs to create networks of veins and creases which crisscross her fragmented portraits. She coats her works with layers of honey-coloured varnishes, which she then sands down to increase the matt effect, rephotographing the manipulated results. Her compositions are oblique, and the subject is often cropped by the frame itself. She seems to delve under the skin of her figures.