Heads: 2010 World Road Cycling Championships series

Based on the Phillip-Lorca diCorcia Heads [link] series of portraits taken in the streets of New York where overhead flashes were used to light the subject and overpower the available daylight resulting in a spotlight halo effect, focusing on the subject mid-thought and unaware of the camera. I shot the 2010 World Road Cycling Championships held in Geelong, Australia, in the same way, using off camera flash in an area covered in shadow. The same thing has also been done by Katrin Koenning in her Thirteen: Twenty Lacuna [link] series, using sunlight reflected off buildings and direct sunlight in a Melbourne laneway. It's not original but captures these athletes, in a way that I haven't seen them captured before.   

Under the bridge series

The Under the bridge series was taken from the window of a moving city bound trian from the JFK Airport, so the ISO was jacked up and aperture fairely wide, so I could get the shutter speed up to 4000th of a second on a cloudy day.

I've always been interested in photographing people when they are unaware of the camera, following in the footsteps of Walker Evans ( Many are Called [link]) and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia( Heads [link]) before me. If we are to capture a person fully in thier natural state of being without been transformed by the lens then there is really no other option besides getting them to jump ( Philippe Halsman Jump [link]) or some other action, leaf blower anyone ( Tadas Cerniauskas Blow Job [link]) ? Such actions forces the subject to take down their guard just for a second and if the photographer is good enough for it to be captured.