haroula rose

Haroula is a musician. She's friends with a friend of mine in LA. The funny thing is that we were neighbors in Madrid for 2 years and somehow never met. So when she flew to chicago to see family and needed pictures for promotional purposes, I was stoked to meet this mystery woman. She was a pleasure to work with and I feel I got some incredible images out of the whole process. We used strobes, natural light from my windows as well and got quite a variety. These are some of my favs. Megan dodge on the face paint hair teaser once again.

fashion vs art

So i'm torn. I love shooting commercial and dabbling in fashion. But there's this hole that is only filled by doing personal work and I'm really wanting to escape the commerce side of photography and just to shoot for myself.







this is my home town at night in some intense fog the day after Christmas.





these two girls did a shoot with me, using megan dodge for makeup/hair and clothing supplied by Serpico.

Both were fun and fulfilling for different reasons, so it looks like for now, I'll keep on doing both.

Interview with photographers who work with the newyorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/01/12/090112_audioslideshow_portraiturenow

I love hearing about portraits from the point of view of the photographer. When it comes to shooting high profile sitters for editorial pieces there are always weird constraints. Almost no time, publicists, or unwilling sitters. Also, I really feel that portraits are almost more a reflection of the photographers at times and these two really push to get something out of the sitters, to get the pictures to show some sort of humanity. But in the end, the pictures still show the shooter. The light is theirs, the cameras they use, what they invoke in the sitters, as much as is shown about the subjects their remnants are still there, like a fingerprint on a crime scene. That's why they're hired over and over again.