For the past week, or so I've been working for Reporter Magazine on writing an article on the H1n! Swine flu outbreak. This has taken more of my time than I thought but it was one of those good busy weeks. The kind of thing that gives you hope that the outcome will be good, and that you can be proud of at the end of. You know, everything that high school wasn't. No I kid. I was somewhat proud, but that's something else entirely.
The article was turned in on Thursday, returned to me yesterday (Friday) and finished again today. I had a few things to answer that were left unanswered so I fixed it. I think.
It was a lot of work. I knew it would be a lot of work. And I've been at this piece, and the stress from it since before thanksgiving break so I was just about done with it.
But I strapped these yellow babies on from the very early morning. I wanted a good feel to the day, and with this sky so overcast, I had twice the motivation. The way you can spite the world with fashion hahha.
Sure enough, the day is over, the article is turned in (no word from my editors yet) and I'm more than satisfied with the amount of sanity I was able to keep despite of how consuming it was to write the piece. If all goes well it should be in print by next Friday (or Thursday night for you overachievers).
About the picture: the style I've been experimenting lately is the use of that huge mount flash that basically has no way of changing output power - it's for Holgas - so it gives pictures a very raw look like the work of Terry Richardson and then the coloring applied was a constant love I have for the sort of warm & cold dichotomy in the editorial work of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott . I love that look and I wanted a sort of self-portrait look but the first few shots I took were very unsatisfactory and too frontal or too posed. I thought this was more candid.
Enjoy :D
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