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| Digital original |
One
of the rewards of how I work is the long term relationships that can
develop with models; I first worked with Jenn in New Brunswick in 2006,
and photographed her four times between then and 2008. I hadn't heard
from here for five years, when out of the blue, she got in touch,
revealed she now lived near Halifax, and asked if I'd be interested in
doing some more photos. There is no doubt what the answer was, and
though it was early October, the weather smiled upon us, and on the next
weekend, we went out and began our 5th session working together in
seven years.
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| Digital original |
In
some ways, this session was more of an exercise talk than a photo
session; as neither of us was familiar with the setting, we spent easily
half our time walking around and looking for spaces for Jenn to pose
in. Ironically, for all that we spent 90 minutes working together, most
of the successful images (two of the three shown here) were made less
than five minutes from where we parked).
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| Digital infrared original |
One
of the most surprising images from this session was of Jenn posing on
the base of a transmission tower. Initially I was dubious about the
possibilities the space offered - it seemed a little unrelated to place a
body against such a frail, angular form, but as Jenn explored the
possibilities, so really striking compositions emerged, including this,
my favorite.
