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Monthly Archive December, 2009

TINY TIMS

CHRISTMAS IN MISSISSIPPI

Outside Panther Burn, Mississippi, Christmastime, 2008
TINY TIMS
Early September the National Arts Centre held open auditions
for the role of Tiny Tim. Candidates had to be between the
ages of 7 and 10, and had to be shorter that four foot ten.
I shot a few of the young hopefuls for Guerilla Magazine.

CHRISTMAS IN MEMPHIS

Christmas Day, [...]

CONTROL + MANIPULATION IN PHOTOGRAPHY

CONTROL IN PHOTOGRAPHY
I knew it all along.
Photography is about control.
But only up to a point.

I saw alannah performing at La Petite Mort Gallery about a year
ago. She’s a gal who, in certain situations, likes to cede control.
In fact, the first time I saw her she was tied up naked, hanging
from an [...]

GEEK KORNER

GEEK KORNER
FLASH
After about 12 years of constant service, my trusty Profoto Acute 600
flash generator bit the dust. And, of course it crapped out just as I had
fine tuned a very complicated lighting setup that required multiple packs,
set at very different power settings.
The subject had just stepped into the setup, we were about [...]