OLD TERRITORY
Just a little while ago I was writing here about white seamless shots
and hospital photos.
The other day I was out shooting R.K., the art director needed him
on white seamless. We set up in a pretty tiny room and I shot thru
the doorway. Here’s a wide shot showing some of the bits and [...]

We all wait.
And, lord knows, there’s lots of waiting at photoshoots.
Sometimes I photograph people as though they are waiting.
Which they are. Waiting. But they’re posing, too.
I suppose there’s really no difference, since posing is a kind
of waiting.
Typically, though, photographers try to downplay the wait.
But there can be, if you ask me, drama in [...]

Art directors seem to really like shots on white seamless. I suppose it’s because of
the design options these shots give them.
Speaking from personal experience, though, I have to tell you that it’s kinda difficult to
make white seamless shots interesting. The subjects usually have a hard time because
there’s nothing to hold or lean on, [...]

FIGHT THE POWER :-)
A while back I was very interested in protesters.
More specifically, I was interested in how the signs they carried were a lot like speech
bubbles in cartoons.
So I went to a bunch of protests, isolated certain people with signs and simply took
their pictures.
This approach was in reaction to a photo-documentary project I had [...]