DUSK
The practice of portraiture typically occurs in a studio or another fixed location, and it often involves lighting systems, backdrops, and assistants. For DUSK, I wanted to strip away these conventions and instead emphasize a fleeting moment in time. At sundown not only is natural light fading away, but the artificial, multicolor lights of a city are turning on. The environment is in total flux.
Each portrait offers a spontaneous, irreproducible instant of a person’s life, of the day, and of a city—most often my home, New York. In keeping with this, frequently I do not meet the subject until the shoot itself. Our initial relationship is intimate but brief, like returning someone’s stare as you walk past each other on the street.