One of my on going projects is something I stumbled across last year. I was shooting a lot of 4x5 film and I was starting to shoot some portraits. I'm not able to think about large format portraits without thinking about Richard Avedon. I have always been drawn to Richard Avedon's portraits on white- mainly his American West Series. I love how Avedon captures everyone's personality and how the portraits look so personal. The images seem to jump off the page at me. Here is a self-portrait of Avedon.
The series I based around shooting on white with large format cameras (typically 4x5 film). I told myself from the start the most important thing to me was if the pictures mattered to me. I had many different ideas about what "subjects" I should photography. Finally one night I decided to photograph people who influenced my life. It's a way for me to have an image for people who are important to me. Since I started it has grown into a "life long project" and it's no where near finished. I still have some of the most important people to photograph, such as my parents and little sister. Their are plenty of other people who are important who I grew up with that need photographed. Also, I will constantly be meeting new people and making new friends for the rest of my life.
Here are the final images that I developed last night:
Steve
Ronda
Caroline
I'm still learning and exploring different ways to evolve this series of images. I hope to continue shooting large format film and I hope to keep creating images which embody these peoples personalities to me. Unfortunately this isn't as quick as shooting digitally and take significant amounts of time to produce 1 final image. However, the feel and look of large format film is hard to beat.
More images to come as I shoot and develop them! As always thanks.
jh
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