No. 1 @desertfreak 2024
I always like to take sometime at the end of every year to go back through every shoot I’ve done. For me this is primarily a way of showing my gratitude to everyone I’ve worked with throughout the year. Portraiture is a collaborative experience and here in Tucson I’ve found a wonderful community of people to work with.
Back in February I was accepted to show work of @&gallery’s Foodfight show, but I needed some new work and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. For me I was extremely grateful for Cherry who I could reach out to explain that I wanted to do a shoot with Honeydew melon and I need to get it done in the next two weeks, and we were able to pull it off. This shot of Cherry surrounded by Honeydew was the inspiration for the whole shoot, the necklace of pulp and seeds was something that we added in the moment that I loved. What I’ve never showered were the images we shot toward the end with the Teal backdrop, the contrast of those shows with teal and green wasn’t quite as striking as the pink and green but I loved them still. Revisiting all this work is about showing my gratitude to my collaborators but Cherry is always up to do something new and weird and I have extra gratitude for that.