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20 X 24 inch silver gelatin print.

Crabtree 1997

Smart photographers work out a formula for lighting and stick to it. Me, I can't resist fiddling. The original plan was the active figure softened by a fairly transparent cloth and frozen mid stride by the flash. But I wasn't sure how it would look. I wanted something heroic and fairly timeless. I decided to gamble on the flood already in place above the model and still getting enough shutter speed to stop movement. The result is one of Chelsea's favorites of my images and in all humility I must say it reminds me a little of the political work of one of my heroes - Tina Modotti.