Jackie ~ Portrait

20 X 24 inch silver gelatin print.

Crabtree 1998

I only got one shoot with Jackie before she left the states for a new career. I know from experience that the first shoot is usually purely explorative - photographer and model get to know each other and it is after we see and discuss the first proofs that the real business starts.

The first time I saw Jackie (in a bar - I asked a mutual friend to introduce us) I knew she would be an extraordinary model so I popped the question. For once in my life I was right, so I show the resulting images as a little tribute to this remarkable lady and her compelling personality... and to what subsequent shoots might have produced. In the case of this portrait I defy you to avoid those eyes.