Portraits

This is where I learned that we are all created to fear the camera equally.

Somewhere inside all of us, there seems to be a third innate fear, the fear of being photographed.

Are we afraid that the camera can see and spew what we want to remain private?

 Taking a portrait, can often unintentionally become an adversarial relationship; this photographer- subject portrait junction. After all it is called a photo shoot, and sometimes I think subjects take the word, in that hunter- gun powder, literal.

  It’s often a lot of work to get past all of that. It works best, when a collaboration of sorts is created, a little gentle coaxing , a reassurance that the best you will be ousted.

Sometimes this may take 3,4 maybe even 5 rolls of film. It is hard to imagine that sometimes it takes almost 200 frames to get ; The One.

After all, we are only shooting for the one, and if we’re lucky, that one, is a part of the pure essence, unlocked and keyed to that person.

These portraits, are those, in that time, of that moment; The Ones