At Her Place and Other Stories

Originally published in B-Authentique Magazine, June 2016 Follow me on Instagram

There's a pic here of Alex next to a weird Egyptian statue. She found it next to the dumpster of her apartment building shortly before our shoot. Despite the near certainty it carried some kind of ancient curse, there was no way we were leaving it out of the shoot. So far, neither of use have died under mysteriously tragic circumstances. So that's good.   Series originally published in B-Authentique Magazine, September, 2016 Follow on Instagram: Duke Photo ; Alex

Series originally published in B-Authentique magazine, December 2017 Follow me on Instagram

At Her Place is a project that began in 2014 with this series. At the time, I had been shooting in studios almost exclusively. Studios allowed me to control virtually every element of the shoot, and I was learning a ton. But I felt like my images were too constrained by the technical perfection I was chasing. While I’m proud of that studio work (and some of it will certainly find its way into this blog), I really wanted to get out of my head and be more spontaneous as an artist. So, I called Sharae, who had modeled for me in the studio, and asked if we could do a shoot at her place. I had two rules which I’ve stuck with ever since: 1) travel light; I allow myself only one light, a shoot-through umbrella, and a single reflector, and 2) I don’t want to know anything about where I’m shooting before I get there. If studio work was a classical orchestra, At Her Place was improvisational jazz. Technical precision was replaced by free-flowing creative collaboration. It was absolutely libe...