Another Indy portrait: ballet dancer turned film-maker William Trevitt. This was a case of trying to find something in the location to exploit, stairs again. I think I'm loosing interest in the firing squad portrait where the subject is put up against the wall and shot and maybe that's why I'm making some slightly more contrived images. At some point I'll gather them all up and take stock, try to work out if it works. But job-to-job I don't feel like I have the luxury of over-thinking and that's probably just as well. So this image is obviously all in the angles. I started off with a set of him sat in a chair at the very top of the same flight of steps and it was one from that set-up that was used. The chair and stairs seemed gently enigmatic, slightly weird and had a kind of strength but the angles, I thought, worked better. Trevitt, as you might expect from a former principal at the Royal Ballet, was very easy to direct, in fact it was tempting to go for something much more extreme, but I think this image has subtle physicality and grace.
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