Something different, a BW photo story.

In 2016 I visited friends in Florida at the time share and I shot quite a few rolls of BW film. I haven’t ever published that project and I wanted to share it here now.

I spent some time looking at the images I have stored on my phone today and feel like I may start posting them here and to my social media feeds because a lot of them have never seen the light of day.

When I have a camera in my hand and I see something that sparks my interest I make a picture and I don’t alway share that with you because it doesn’t fit what I have shot before or what I am showing in my feeds.

It is time to be seen, for all of my angles.

Enjoy.

Photo Vogue Feature

This image was shot on 120mm film using a Bronica Zenzia medium format camera, in the studio with natural light.

Jayda sits in repose with her back to the camera in a pair of wool trousers holding her chest. The image is symbolizing the stillness and movement that is hidden inside each moment. Each piece of us has a still and a mobile part and to acknowledge that is to accept being human.

This is Jayda, in repose, on film for Photo Vogue.

A very kind compliment.

I often shoot test images for models.

These are images the model uses to create their ‘book’. That book is used by agencies to choose someone for a project. It’s kind of a cool thing, to get to introduce them to the industry and photograph them for the first time. Kind of like putty in my hands.

This is Wolf, he was recently chosen by a formative agency at Faces West a conference where models are showcased and chosen to move on and move up in the industry based on their ‘books’.

Wolf’s Mom called me one day to thank me because the images I took of him, film images with natural light in my studio helped him get chosen and move on in his career. He has only ever shot with two photographers. His mom wanted me to know that my photos were the ones that helped him get chosen because they were the ones who represented the real him. She asked and was so proud to tell me that the photos were authentic and he looked at ease.

I was gushing for the next few hours because I never know what next steps these models take and to know the specifics of this journey made me so happy.

I am so very, very grateful to do what I do.

More on Film

If you have been reading this a while you know that I am in love with film.

I am in love with it because of it’s flaws. Sounds weird right, well let me tell you that there is always a flaw or three in any roll of film. The human element, the connection to the person who created it and now the person shooting it (me) and then the lab who develops it and scans it for me. The journey is similar to the one I love with lines.

We know each other by our lines, William Blake.

We also know each other by our flaws and guess what, that is where the love is.

Vogue Italia and Jayda on Film.

I submit to Vogue once a week, they close a couple of times a year but are open roughly 48-50 weeks for submission. I pick two images, that is all that you can submit and send them off. It is an electronic portal and if you check back later and there is no image, you did not get accepted.

This time as I was submitting my second image they accepted my first. I could see the number change from 7 to 8 as I was filling out the online form.

As I said in a blog post a couple of weeks ago this will never get old. I will age and still submit to Vogue and know that indeed this will never get old.