A week in Santa Fe with Peter Yang

I had the enormous privilege of studying under Peter Yang for a week in Santa Fe. It's hard to put into words how much I learned… so I'll do it in pictures.

One big takeaway for me: When you're an editorial photographer shooting on location, you have to be able to enter a situation and build a set out of anything. You have to do it quick, and it doesn't always have to make sense. You have to feel it and seize it. Like… when I grabbed a mop bucket from a closet and asked the model to sit in it.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

I recommend that any photographer try out the Santa Fe Workshops.

The Flavr Blue… with blue

I shot some portraits of The Flavr Blue. And I used blue. A guy only has so much originality in him.

Simoné in the studio

I reconnected with a radiant old pal, Simoné, in my studio. We went to college together and worked on the student newspaper. Here are a few frames.