Bili and Joe came up to Halifax in the middle of the winter for a brief visit, but knowing they were coming, we'd planned to get in at least one session, to make the most of their presence.
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My first images of Bili and Joe were also made indoors, in the winter
of 1999, so the two models were more then familiar with my approach to
indoor work. Over the intervening years, I've refined my approach and
comfort with the style and changed from shooting transparencies to
colour negative. This didn't really change the approach, but did affect
the outcome, to some degree.
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| 35mm negative |
As with much of my indoor
work, I set the models against a white sheet, lit from behind by a large
window. This gave a beautiful luminous quality to the light, and
provided beautiful description of the model's bodies.
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| 35mm negative |
Unlike the work we'd produced in 1999, these images are more based upon aesthetics then intimacy. Over and over, I built images that relied upon line and form, drawn to the wonderful juxtaposition of the two forms. I suspect this is rooted in the brevity of the Bili and Joe's visit; the session was short, and the only one we had time for. Generally I find it takes a session or two for models to get back into the flow of the process, even experienced ones. In the end, while it was more then easy to generate successful images with Bili and Joe, I suspect if we'd had time to work a second or third time, the work would have grown in
impact.
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