Jack Nicholson, Los Angeles, 2003 Archival Pigment Print

Archival Pigment Print Signed and numbered by the artist Edition of 50 16x20", 20x24" or 30x36"     Sometimes the best picture from a shoot is a moment that was completely unexpected. Like a lot of photographers, I am guilty of sometimes doing too much planning, and not leaving enough room for spontaneity. Another way to put it is that sometimes I don’t trust the process. I think this is an easy trap for a photographer to fall into, especially one like myself who works with a lot of famous people. You get an opportunity to photograph an iconic figure, like Jack Nicholson, and the tendency is to plan the shoot down to the minute. You don’t want to assume magic will happen, or that the subject will flip a switch and give you an amazing moment. However, if you don’t leave room for that magic to happen, you are pretty much guaranteeing that it won’t.   This conundrum always brings me back to the blank page theory – which essentially is this: if you put a blank page in front of a creative p