So here’s a portrait we did of director David Lynch. This was shot for the icon issue of the now defunct project of Shepard Fairey and Roger Gastman called Swindle Magazine. We were told we had no more than 30 minutes with Mr. Lynch, not because he was a diva or anything but that he can’t handle doing one thing longer than 30 minutes apparently. We decided to shoot him with 4×5 film, Kodak Portra 160 to be exact with one soft box (like every 4×5 shot we ever shoot). We shot 4 frames that felt great so we asked if he would like to smoke. He said “I would love to, it’s one of my favorite things to do”. He lit up, we shot this one more frame and called it a day because we knew we had it. 5 frames, have never even looked at the other 4. As we were packing up our gear he said “It was a real pleasure watching you guys work” and he walked off. Thank you Mr. Lynch for your time.

We have a very large print of this for sale at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan, the 2nd in the series. The first was purchased by musician Matt Skiba without us knowing.

Last night we participated in a panel discussion of new media and new and old ways of marketing yourself as a photographer hosted by Rob Haggart aka A Photo Editor. We have never done anything like that and it was really a lot of fun. We spoke a couple of years ago at Semi-Permanent in Australia but that was different because it was all about us and how we got to where we are in our careers etc, plus it was in front of 3000+ people and for some reason was less nerve-wracking because it made us feel like rock stars.

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