July 2023

I started taking portraits on the picket lines of the Hollywood writers strike during its first week in May 2023. Since then I have continued periodically at a variety of the major studios and streaming companies around Los Angeles. Two things inspired the project: for one, this does not happen very often. The last writers strike in Hollywood was 15 years ago. Secondly, I figured, it's not too often you get so many screenwriters (who normally work behind the scenes) in one place. And so, a project was born. Since then, the strike has become even more unique. Actors were called to strike action...


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I'm not going to write too many words. Yosemite national park is the most spectacular place I've ever visited. People often say that, as a great photographic innovator, were Ansel Adams alive today he would be shooting the latest, greatest digital kit. I have no doubt that is true, but Yosemite, to my eye at least, loves black and white film (the Ansel Adams gallery in Yosemite park village still sells film, by the way...35mm and 120, but not large format). Anyway, enough words. Here are the pictures (all shot on Ilford Delta 100 120 in 6x6 format).


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