A Conversation with Jay Parkinson
(This is the first of what I hope will be many conversations with photographers about their photography. I've always wanted to do this, and I hope this is going to become a regular feature here. My thanks to Jay Parkinson for agreeing to be the first person to be interviewed for this blog.)
When I saw Jay Parkinson's shots of aspiring models for the first time, I got quite interested in them. To start with, it is quite an interesting project to do since - at least from what I know - there is quite a bit more to the modeling world than those famous fashion models on cat walks. I have no idea how you become a model. Do you make a decision? And how do you decide to become a specialized model, say for hands or bondage or whatever else there is?
was published. The book contains images taken in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and given the contents of Chris' earlier work I asked him for an interview.
