2105 SXSW Film Portraits
One of my favorite galleries every year is my SXSW Film portraits. It’s a chance to put a lot of photo related skills to use and shoot some stuff that’s not naked people or some crazy party or something. I spend the first few days of SXSW running around shooting very quick portraits with actors and directors that have movies in the festival and then the Village Voice and LA Weekly (and a bunch of other Voice Media papers) run a slideshow of all my photos.
It’s really fun to see what you can get in sometimes just seconds with an actor. Last year I promised a publicist that I could shoot three people by themselves and then all together in under 90 seconds if she let me take them out onto the balcony where it was slightly raining. I was done in 60. It doesn’t always work out for the best, like when I have to shoot seven different people in the same location, or when there are a dozen people there distracting the actors while I am trying to bang shots out, but over all I am pretty happy with a lot of this work.
Highlights:
- Adrien Brody was excited about the shoot because his mom, Sylvia Plachy, used to shoot for the Voice.
- Everyone in the cast of the Final Girls was really fun to shoot with even if the location wasn’t ideal.
- Speaking of the Final Girls… I want to take Alia Shawkat’s photo every day forever.
- I shot Jason Schwartzman for 7 Chinese Brothers and The Overnight. Decidedly not a dick.
- Always shooting Robert Duvall. That’s three Duvall related posts in a row.
- Getting the Duplass Brothers to take a nap.
- Shooting the Babysitter cast/crew on a lake. Fun kids, nice location.
- Putting my brother in the gallery. The film he edited, A Wonderful Cloud, was fantastic.
- Running into the homie Heems. He was in Creative Control and it was good to see that dude.
- Shooting Ava’s Possessions, Excess Flesh and Lamb one at a time in the same room in under 10 min.
- Fresno. Love Aubrey Plaza, Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne so much even if the photos are mediocre.
Now click here to see all of my 2015 SXSW Film Portraits!
