Navajo Rancher

I’m starting to delve into the mountain of personal work that came out of our last trip to Monument Valley. Having never explored the area properly I thought the best way to cover ground might be on horseback.

Here is one of the first prints. The colours were inspired by some old gold tone prints I once saw by photographer Edward S Curtis.

Navajo Horse

In a beautiful place

A little while ago I was at the California Academy of Sciences where I discovered these wonderful dioramas. It made me feel quite lazy as a photographer as the composition is almost done for you. What really interested me however was the way the subject transforms when put onto film. For an instance the backgrounds and subject almost become real.

Stud

Whilst shooting a campaign for VW nr Denver a little while ago I noticed some guys driving their horses up a dirt road towards the paddock. I saw them every morning as we were driving to the location. On the last shoot day I headed out a little early to lie in wait.