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.
Los Angeles | Cheryl I
When shooting a model in her apartment in downtown LA and she says she has pleather pants and a red corset and asks if she should try those on, you should say yes, please.
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.
Tondo, Manila | Why I Shoot in Slums
When I travel, I am drawn to the poor areas, those people on the fringe, the disenfranchised. And beautiful women. A weird contrast, I know, but there has never been an agenda. I just go where my feet lead me and to what attracts me.
I do shoot the underprivileged a lot and I find myself questioning this periodically.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Standing, Camisole IV
Ellen von Unwerth | Her Best Shot
I took this maybe three years ago, on a fashion shoot for Italian Vogue.
Nolita | Lovely Day
Moscow | Galina I
Galina was a Playboy model in Russia that I coordinated with and booked through a model directory.
As the owner of a photo studio rental in Saint Petersburg told me, Russia is filled with beautiful women who want their photo taken.
Indeed.
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.
New York | The Feast of San Gennaro
Saint Petersburg | Vi III
John Dominis | Mickey Mantle
That’s my technique with people. I’m sort of a fly on the wall.
Buenos Aires | La Boca
Spent an afternoon in the La Boca barrio of Buenos Aires.
As always on a wander, you turn the corner, you never know what you fill stumble upon.
Garry Winogrand | Contact Sheet, 1961
Hollywood | Virginia & Erin
I was in a workshop with a photographer and she was flipping through my portfolio and when she came across this photo, she said:
Pretty girls doing yucky things.
She pulled it aside as a select.
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.
Flatiron | Alex on 23rd
One of my favorite images.
Ellen von Unwerth | Naomi Campbell, 1991
Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere.
Brooklyn | Anika
Anika is letting her gray hair show and good lord, I am happy for it
