The Anatomy of Photographing a British Party
Apparatus, Giorgio de Chirico and the Pet Shop Boys.
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Photographing parties is my heroin. I haven’t been blessed with the art of small talk, so being in a room full of 300 strangers without a camera is an anxious ordeal. The camera transforms all that anxiety into a euphoric high. What I lack in social skills is made up by sniper-like observation of public interactions. Every party is a smorgasbord of eloquent details — gestures, glances, posture, self-presentation, and interactions. My thrill comes from using all these fragments to weave together a unique story of each party.