This is the Rebellion against overproduced images often in the digital world. These are images made from my film cameras. Each image I shot myself. The subjects are often friends, and acquaintances in their world.
She is Beautiful
Crisitina is a makeup artist and hair stylist that I work with from time to time. Every time we see each other again on this job or the next, its always a welcome encounter. We pick up right where we left off and the conversation is so much like family its scary. Probably because we have the same background, or the same city, or perhaps the same type of job.
Most forget the behind the scenes workers of the magazine biz, and laud the people on the covers. But like football, a successful Running Back or QB1 isn’t that great without blockers and an O-line. Before a dodge or healing brush, Crisitina makes our people beautiful in real life. And she does so with a grace and candor that is both encouraging, authentic, and warm. When I get the calls to shoot, I will put people like Crisitina on my team who have so much depth, charisma, and zest, that she should be infront of the camera as well as behind it.
I took this shot in Hollywood, right by the Bourgouis Pig and across the way from the Scientology center on Bronson. I’m using only natural light. The Mamiya RZ67 speaks in words all by itself. There is a depth that accentuates the subject, that frames the beauty with a different beauty of its own, combine that with the light, the palm trees, and the feeling in the air, and I walk away from this photograph feeling strangely fine(yes Semisonic), that I captured, finally, Crisitina in a portrait. And yes, those borders are real. Film baby, Film.
Hollywood, CA
Mamiya RZ67 110mm 5.6 Kodak Portra 160 NC
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