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I have lived in Nevada City, California placeholder and photographed most of it: the shops on Broad Street, the swimming holes on the Yuba, and several hundred people who did not think they photographed well.
My work runs in two directions. Commissioned portraits for publications, publishers and brands, and long personal series made on film, usually at the edges of the day.
Clients tend to arrive because they have seen one frame and want to know how it was lit. The answer is almost always a window.
How a sitting works
First
A short call
Fifteen minutes to work out who is being photographed, what the frame is for, and where the light will be good at that hour.
Then
The sitting
Ninety minutes in the studio, or half a day on location. No crew unless the brief needs one. Bring more than one shirt.
After
Selects and prints
A gallery of edited frames within three working days, and one archival print of the frame you choose, made here.
What I shoot on
- Film
- Two 35mm bodies and a medium format rangefinder. Tri-X 400 for most things, Portra when the work needs colour, pushed to 3200 after dark.
- Digital
- A 100-megapixel back for studio and press work, where the client needs to see the frame while we are still making it.
- Light
- Windows, doorways, overcast sky, and one small continuous head for the days when February refuses to help.
- Darkroom
- Black and white printed here, on fibre paper, selenium toned. Colour goes to a lab in Oakland.