I recently received an email request from New York Magazine regarding a portrait I took of Dan Backer. It was a little surprising, if only because the picture they were thinking of was one I did of Dan 4 years ago. He and his wife are personal friends of ours. In 2011, I was a staff photographer at the News & Messenger and working on getting better at portraits and specifically business-style portraits. So we agreed to meet up. He needed professional portraits, I needed to practice, so we met up and spent a little time doing some portraits. He's still using those portraits. Which is how NYMag found me.
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| Shot in Dan's apartment, 2011. NYMag eventually selected this one for their article. |
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| 2011 |
I contacted Dan and
we met up quickly on a Saturday morning before one of his meetings and
we did a little refresher session. NYMag ended up going with
the one I did 4 years ago, but that's ok. I have more portraits. And so does Dan. It's a good lesson in hanging on to your work, because you don't know who will come looking for you.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frat-house-fund-raising-with-dan-backer.html#
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| On the mean streets of Old Town Alexandria, VA. 2015 |
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