This is the first portrait session I’ve done since working at Picture People…the difference is unbelievable but challenge never disappears. Instead of creating endearing photographs of crying children, I’m charged with making intimate, telling images of a real life superhero without showing his face. Thankfully Geist and I get along […]
Year: 2012
Placing the Place
What’s the point in beautifully lit ‘sense of place’ photos when all the ‘action’ photographs take place under cover of night? Why do I go out each twilight attempting to capture the essence of the city when the rest of my schedule takes me other places? Even if we find […]
Patrol, Minneapolis
The moment before I got in a car with these men I very quickly rethought all of my life choices. There were so many steps along the way wherein someone could have, should have, said “No, Heather, this is a terrible idea.” Real Life Superheroes was/is a story I wanted […]
Galactic Pizza
Here’s a small taste of the pizza place where delivery drivers dress as superheroes. And in all sincerity, the pizza’s pretty good. I associated the people and attitude there with my days working at Medieval Times; most of your best friends are co-workers, the get-up is a little humiliating, and […]
Minneapolis
I made it through step one: get out of the house. Then I failed step two: get out of the car. 7AM: out of the car for the last bits of morning light. A decent effort but I think we both know there are better frames to be made.
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