Shannon
September 22, 2020
Shannon Thaler, Marilyn Agency NY.
Katy
September 20, 2020
The very beautiful Katy Branton, Sutherland Models, in Toronto. I worked on two other session pictures this weekend before rejecting those and selecting this. I made the right choice.
Mads and Nat
September 19, 2020
Maddison Mahoney and Natalia Polakowski, Elite Models, in my studio last summer. There’s the slight homage here towards classical oil painting that appears in many of my more recent photographs, especially those taken in studio rather than outdoors. Perhaps I’m spending more time with art history and it’s bleeding through into my work.
Frida
September 13, 2020
Mexico City model Frida Skinfill at my studio last winter.
Influences
September 12, 2020
My recent photos of Canadian forests had been reminding me of something I couldn’t put my finger on, and running across this painting this morning gave me the answer. I had used one of Shishkin’s paintings (“Winter”, 1890) many years ago to illustrate an essay I wrote on pagan Germanic mythology,
and his style and spirit had apparently made a subtle impression on me –
because it’s showing up now in my aesthetic responses to the wilderness
of my homeland.
Gloria for Haunts
September 10, 2020
A light-suffused image of Gloria Vandekemp (Morgan Model Mgmt) wearing Haunts Fashion’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection.
MUAH: Hanieh Zarian
Anna van Patten, NYC
August 25, 2020
A beautiful moment with Anna van Patten in New York City, in early 2019.
MUAH: Cristina McLamb
Stylist: Victoria Rodriguez
Agency: Women 360 Mgmt.
Ana
August 22, 2020
A way of nature, and a way of grace.
My portrait of Ana Buljevic (Q Models) in New York City last fall. MUAH Ruth Akele.
Rallycross
February 9, 2020
Six increasingly fast runs in snow, ice, and then mud at the first KWRC rallycross of the year yesterday. I thought my car got through without a scratch until I took it out on the main road and it started shaking like a feverish dog at speeds over 80 kph. So it was slower country roads all the way home – and obviously a visit to the shop this week.
The sun came out
February 4, 2020
One of the purest joys in fashion photography comes when an utterly unposed, natural, in-between-shots moment occurs, and somehow your finger is quick enough to hit the shutter button and capture it despite not being really “ready” for the shot. Sometime the resulting picture is an out-of-focus muddle. Sometimes – as with this glorious image of model Shannon Thaler and her megawatt smile – it’s perfect.
MUA: Ruth Akele
Stylist: Victoria Rodriguez