Image DAY 105 PORTRAITS

Use of Sunlight

ROBERTO CORTAZAR, PAINTER

As I turned up to the gallery, where I was commissioned to photograph Roberto Cortazar for a magazine, I had no idea that luck would shine on me again. The dimly lit gallery in an old Manhattan house was small and long, and, after arriving early to set up with my assistant, I simply did not know where to shoot. The space was tight, but there was one small painting with a huge frame that caught my eye. As always I had brought my strobe lights and was not too worried that this lack of light would present an issue.

Roberto arrived and we chatted briefly about some ideas. We shot ...

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