How much of something do you need to show in a photograph
in order to make the image about that thing?
I think: not much. Especially if you don’t want to be literal (and who
wants to be literal when looking at imagery?)
Of course it helps a lot if you’re not dealing with a single image, but [...]

I was in the hospital for an operation this past week.
The week before that I spent 3 days in hospitals shooting The Ottawa Hospital annual report.
The day before I went for my operation I needed to shoot another hospital shot for another client’s
annual report. We didn’t have access to a real hospital for this last [...]

MORE HOSPITAL
I spent 3 days in the hospital this week…..shooting the Ottawa Hospital annual report.
Funnily enough I spent a morning working in an operating room just down the hall from
the one I’ll be in next week getting worked on. The surgeon I was doing a portrait of
studied under Dr Mahoney, my surgeon.
Small world.

MATCHES
Had to [...]

The human face. Posture and gesture. Intensity, control and openness.
Lights and a camera.
These are the things I use.
(click on images to enlarge)

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ADDED LATER…
I really don’t like running 2 posts in a row using shots from my archives. I like
to keep drool as fresh as possible given my schedule and the permissions
required to publish pictures [...]