PORTRAITS

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.Edvard Munch

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.Annie Leibovitz

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.Richard Avedon

Portraits, the capturing of a likeness and spirit of a person,  has been a pursuit for thousands of years. Paintings of gods in Egypt and Greece, to portrait paintings of royalty and aristocrats, to the unabashedly narcissistic selfie of today – 

Capturing portraits come with their own set of hurdles that vary with each session and artist. Some walk into a photo studio with the same eagerness as a proctology exam – others are out to just have fun and get an interesting shot!

Sometimes the session is solely the artist and myself, while other times a whole entourage come in tow. I never know exactly how the session will go but at the end of the day, I have captured some photographic interpretation of the person.