The Iris
A beauty session that ended up being about one square centimetre. We had a wall of light, a stylist and a list of looks; the frame that made the campaign is the iris, the lashes and nothing else. A macro…
Portrait (11)
Faces at rest, on film and digital. Studio sittings, street portraits and the people met along the way.
Saturday in Slow Motion
We planned an hour and stayed until the light moved off the bay windows. The armchair belongs to her grandfather and has not been moved since the seventies, which is the only reason the room still looks like this. The…
Skin and Silk
A beauty session shot soft and slow with one large window and white linen. No strobes, no retouching beyond dust; the make-up artist and the daylight did the rest. Beauty work rewards patience more than equipment. We spent the first…
Off the Ground
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.
Grain and Grey
A studio sitting on film, one roll, twelve frames. Hard light from a single window, a borrowed camera in her hands and the discipline of not moving for a slow shutter. Medium format makes you count. Every frame is a…
Held in the Air
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…
Afternoon Without Agenda
Some sessions have a mood board; this one had a bus ticket. We walked until the houses ran out and the beach started, and photographed whatever the wind and the flat light offered. He is a writer, and the pictures…
Caught Mid Laugh
A portrait session that refused to be a portrait session. We had a list of poses and a wall of good light; she had a phone and a friend on the other end of it. The list went in my…
Something on the Screen
The brief was a family portrait for a birthday. The picture that made it onto the wall is this one, taken between two of the planned frames, while I was changing rolls. There are the frames we planned: the grandparents…
Stay in the frame
New work, field notes and the occasional dispatch from wherever the light is good.