Conference coffee-time portrait
A couple of editorial portraits coming up on the blog this week, just to show a little of the back-story behind a seemingly simple portrait.
Some of the requests you get have your brain going around in circles. This portrait for a sunday newspaper was of a lady writing a thesis on mental health and the differences in how it relates to men & women.
Them: “We need something that depicts that ideally”
Me: “Oh OK (WTF?). Sure (WTF?). I’ll see what I can figure out (what the, what the, WTF?)”
Simple then. An image of something that’s not solid, or tangible or quantifiable.
I arranged with my subject that the best time for me to do the shoot was during the coffee-break at the conference she was at.
I had an hour to get there, set-up and dream up an image.
I took a couple of straight portraits as back-up (the safety shots) and then commissioned a couple of conference delegates for the background of just about the only thing I could dream up:
Not too sure what else I could have done! What do you think?
TTFN
