Assignments for magazines and brands: a brief, a place and one day to make it look easy.
A spare study of a forest road, low sun and the focus that arrives before the first kilometre. The empty tarmac, the restrained palette and the long shadows reduce the morning to weather, movement and a single clear line. The…
One dancer, one teal wall and a camera kept level with the floor for an afternoon of jumps. The photographs follow the rhythm between attempts, catching the coiled pause, the kick and the landing that never looks the same twice.
An acrobat, a rope and the half second at the top of the swing when nothing moves. The company asked for the show; I asked for the rehearsal, where the light is worse and the concentration is better. Shot against…
A canyon at the end of the afternoon, two walls of sandstone and one body between them. The commission asked for scale; the answer turned out to be the walking figure, which is the only thing in the frame you…
Look up long enough in a financial district and the buildings start to lean towards each other. The picture is about that lean, and about the one slice of sky they leave. At street level the tower is a lobby…
The seaplane takes twenty minutes and the pilot banks once over the island if you ask nicely. I asked nicely, pressed the lens against the window and got four frames before the wing came round. From above, a place is…
The owner sets the tables at half past eleven and the first people arrive at noon. In between, the striped awnings, the bistro chairs and the potted plants pose for anyone who notices. I noticed on the third morning. The…
A forest road, an old car and a sky that had been going blue for twenty minutes. The headlights do most of the work; the trees do the rest. I parked a hundred metres back and waited for the light…
A publisher wanted the paper, not the cover. So we photographed the edge of the book, fanned open on the windowsill, until the pages looked like the thing they are made of. Macro lens, north light and a stack of…
New work, field notes and the occasional dispatch from wherever the light is good.