Portraits

Shot with a Nikon D750 and 50mm lens at 1/1000 second at f3.2

Rio Matchett Artistic Director, Camden People’s Theatre describing her experience at CPT, in what she considers to be a rare nurturing environment. After posting this photo I looked up Rio and she has an interesting story with a soon to be published book detailing how at 18, she set fire to a church, for which she was sectioned then imprisoned for arson, and her steps to redemption.

He was performing, guitar and vocals, outside the Tate Modern. The song was Knocking On Heaven’s Door, a song that usually makes me see in my mind’s eye, the scene in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid where Slim Pickens is shot and sits down on the river bank, dying. His wife or partner, played by Katy Jurado, sees he has been shot and she comes to comfort him. She is on her hands and knees, a respectful distance as he goes through what he is going through, and they look at each other with love and sadness.

Meanwhile, Pat Garrett is tackling another outlaw back at the cabin seventy yards away or so. So there’s a split narrative in the scene as it cuts back and forth – and it is full of love, regret, acceptance, and death.

Wayne’s card says he is available for gigs singling and playing classic pop from the 50’s to the present, including the Beatles, Oasis, Bob Marley.

Canon R6 and Canon RF 35mm lens

Shot with an Olympus E-PM1 with an Olympus 45mm f1.8 at f1.8, 1/1250th of a second and
ISO 200

The idea of men sitting in their workplace, which is what the carriages are, appealed to me. That and the fact that they were absorbed in their conversation. I particularly like the body and arm position of the man talking, the kind of presence that comes from being with people with whom one is comfortable.

Shot with a Fuji X100s at f/ 4.0, 1/640 second and ISO 200.