From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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The spontaneous portraits

The spontaneous portraits

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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The spontaneous portraits

There is always a natural rhythm and flow to a photo shoot. There is that initial point where you are making the connection, and then there is that intense bond which forms as you are working to create photographs in different locations, and trying to keep the flow going from one spot to another. And eventually you call the wrap. You end on a high note. And at that point, the cameras were turned off, and Keith and I were still standing there in that area in front of the blue door with the white hand print, and Keith and I were talking about life, about poetry, about photography, about who knows what. At one point, we were talking a little bit about something Keith had gone through. Keith had cancer in his eye. As he was sharing that with me, at one point he put his glasses up on top of his head and I asked him which eye was it, and he pointed to his eye. And I had my camera and shooting from the hip, so to speak, I captured this frame. And he was sharing with me about that process and…

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