As a portrait photographer, I always look forward to these year-end “best of” galleries.
I couldn’t have said this better myself:
“These and the other portraits that make up this LightBox gallery remind us that, as powerful as the grand gesture might be, it is often the quiet, unfiltered gaze of a fellow human being that makes for the most intense, and the most revelatory, of all pictures.”
I get the chance, every so often, to photograph celebrities, but rarely in their backyards. Late last month I had another photo shoot for TeachersCount, this time with actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Austin Pendleton. With no room for a 9-ft white background, our only option was to incorporate the garden. It’s slightly different from the usual white seamless in past TeachersCount shoots, but I like the feel. Here are some outtakes. The poster is due out in September.
Keith Barraclough 