B R O O K L Y N

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I quit doing commission work for musicians and bands; I've always had a passion for high and couture fashion. I've always looked at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in awe of the photography work it featured. I just didn't see myself in five years working for bands anymore. So this is my attempt at editorial fashion work. I've gotten a lot of good feedback about it, and I hope it's all honest. I was really nervous at first because it seemed like I was starting all over with my career. But I figured it would be better to take the jump than to wonder what could have been.

We shot this down the road from the makeup/hairstylist's house in Wadsworth, Illinois. It used to be part of the highway that has been all overgrown from years of not being used. We had to go around a fence and ignore the 'no trespassing' sign to do the shoot. The part we are on in the picture is part of what was the overpass. The sun was being really unpredictable so we had to move around to a lot of different places. We picked out a lot of outfits but these were the first we chose. Jennifer Frain did an amazing job with the hair and make up, i couldn't have been happier with them.

We were just finishing up the shots for these outfits when a woman from the neighborhood we were in decided to yell at us about trespassing, claiming that it was her property because she's a tax payer. It was really annoying and pretty much a lie, so we left and continued the shoot elsewhere. One of the models did a good amount of complaining how she didn't like the makeup so I won't be using her again but the other one was very cooperative and had a lot of fun with it. I'm not doing this to upset people, but to be honest I don't care if the model likes what I tell them to wear. To be honest, thats what modeling is. If you don't wanna be told how to look than you're in the absolute wrong business. It was very disrespectful to Jennifer's amazing work and I felt like it made me really unprofessional for hiring her. 

Regardless, I'm happy with how the shots came out.