Posts about conceptual portraiture
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As I wrote earlier in the week, I was honoured to be allowed to show 20 of my photos from the One Frame Movie series at the 50th anniversary show of Pix Mix in Bern this week. I hadn’t quite anticipated the number of people who would be attending and during the break, I quickly […]
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I love taking portraits of people; whether I know them or not. I do it because of my passion for the image, not for financial gain, and I really wish more people would volunteer to let me photograph them. Here’s why.
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A photo shoot in a cellar cinema in Bern adds a new photo to my One Frame Movie series.
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Now that the spring is here once more, I’m looking for volunteers for my photo series “One Frame Movie”.
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I was contacted a while back by the editor of Czech photo blog Odcloněno, Michal Fanta: Michal asked to interview me and use some of my photos on the blog. The interview was published this morning; here’s the English transcript. Many thanks to Michal for the exposure and, as he’s mentioned; please do get in touch if you’d like to volunteer for this year’s continuation of the One Frame Movie series.
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Second image from a shoot in Bern, inspired by 1980 classic horror film “The Shining”.
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I am continually on the lookout for interesting and characterful places to use in my photography and I am compiling a list of possible locations, to which I can return in the future and use in my photography.
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Photos from an all-afternoon series of portrait sessions in Zurich during September 2009, finally online as a complete set.
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Another in my series of One Frame Movie photographs, of Bernese video podcaster Manuel “Sprain” Reinhard.
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An unplanned shot, taken of volunteer Niels for the One Frame Movie set of photographs I was working on a few weeks back.
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The next in my series of theatrical photographs, featuring fellow photographer Tilman Jentzsch.
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A photograph from a session in Zurich, and the lessons in lighting and technique which make it one of the more successful session shots of the past few months.
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Another of my One Frame Movies, of friends Habi and Nina in the Nydegg area of the old city of Bern.
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The next in the series of One Frame Movie shots which I’m cramming into this and next week is of a colleague from work: Mauro (also known on Twitter as @ironmauro).
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We were in Thun this past weekend, with a couple of friends from Zürich who’d come down for a day of “strobism” (the art of non-studio-based photography using portable flash units for illumination). As well as locations in Spiez and Gwatt, we sneaked into the dilapidated Selve area in Thun, where old factories, once converted […]