Chasing LightWelcome. This is where I share my work and also the work of others, those that inspire me, the weird, the great, the unusual.
It is a goddamn marvel this life. Take a look.
Ellen Von Unwerth | Motion & Blur
There is a technique that Ellen Von Unwerth continually revisits that I’ve never seen any other pro shooter use to such great effect.
André Kertész | Chair with French Horn, 1927
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.
Ellen von Unwerth | Her Best Shot
I took this maybe three years ago, on a fashion shoot for Italian Vogue.
David Hurn | Hard Day’s Night
LONDON—The police restrain fans who line the railway bank in hopes of seeing the Beatles as their train passes through on its daily trip, during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.
John Dominis | Mickey Mantle
That’s my technique with people. I’m sort of a fly on the wall.
Garry Winogrand | Contact Sheet, 1961
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen | Byker
Often, if you go with the natural light and the fairly casual approach, you tend not to come away with stately portraiture.
Ellen von Unwerth | Naomi Campbell, 1991
Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere.
Mona Kuhn | Untitled Self B, 1996
Arnold Newman | Alexander Calder
Whenever I want to photograph someone, I read about them. I read biographies.