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“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative… Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
I’m a big believer in Cartier-Bresson’s “moment”. I probably think about it a bit too much. I like making portraits, mostly—though not always in the traditional sense. I love shooting strangers, sex workers, pro wrestlers, odd balls and weirdos, people who make me pause or make me nervous. I’m not trying to shock anybody, and I’m not after beauty for its own sake either. I’m not trying to exploit my subject. I’m just chasing whatever makes a photo interesting—whatever makes it hum and twitch, maybe even enough to make the viewer pause to look at it a little longer. Since everyone’s a photographer now (literally), therein lies the challenge: holding someone’s attention with a photograph.
Four Minute Mile is my second photo zine. It’s full color and printed in a short run. These photos were shot on the street, in thrift stores and flea markets, porno sets and back yard BBQs, resident hotel lobbies, red carpet events and a professional photography studio. Some of the people I know very well, some I met seconds before I made the picture. But they’re all portraits, in one form or another. And I’d like to think every picture has earned a spot on the page.
Grab a copy while they last—once they’re gone, they’re gone. No reprints.
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