one of my favorite frames from my recent senior portrait shoot was an afterthought. We had finished the shoot basically and just decided to take a couple in the alley outside the studio. You know those typical up against a brick wall shots. I just had this quick thought as i was thinking how i didn't want to do the typical up against a brick wall shot after all and we just did it. Its similar to shots I've done with tree limbs. Not sure if its truly Greg's personality, but its got a little edge to it that made it stand out from the other to me. Photograph by Richard Sayer
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I took this photo with my iPhone and hipstamatic of a printout of a photo I took many years ago of this funny face I received at a softball game. Still makes me chuckle a little bit.
When I was starting a business with my friend Harmony Motter we were trying to put together images that challenge the norm of what was being done. This image became one of our first brands. We were experimenting with what people might be interested in. We didn't get much interest in having their face manipulated like this, but it did get some folks attention at least. Since then we have really taken our style of photography and grown, but its fun to look back and also to maybe re-consider some of the old ideas in what we're thinking going forward. Photograph by Richard Sayer
Working everyday requires one to do one of two things, be motivated to perform a task for a paycheck or to be motivated by work regardless of a paycheck. We all have to have both in our lives in order to stay out of jail and to pay our bills… eat! I was asked by an old friend the other day if a day goes by where I don't make pictures. Some, but very few and usually its an illness. But making something everyday isn't easy, at least something where you feel you're growing. I am motivated by documenting my surrounds, but I also have a part of me that is motivated by developing visual ideas in hopes to convey something a little more universal and touching upon our humanness and all the things that we need to work on.I don't always know what I am going to try to say, but I pursue this work with purpose that there is 'something' to say and needs to be said. Some things I make are total failures… actually most things, but there are a few here and there that I keep finding grab me and I try to work on those more. Photograph by Richard Sayer
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