About the work

A closer look.

Send me one photo of yourself that you already have. A headshot, a profile picture, the one you almost posted. I write back one page on what it is actually saying. Three things, every time: What it says about you. Not what you hoped it said. What a stranger gets in the first second. What it says that you probably did not intend. This is usually one small thing: a hand, a wall behind you, the direction your eyes went, how far you are from the edge of the frame. The one change worth making. Not six. One, specific enough that you could do it with the same photo tomorrow. I am not selling you a new picture. There is no filter, no generation, no retouch. You are buying the read. Why me: I worked in front of a camera for years. I have looked at more photographs of my own face than I would recommend to anyone. I know how much of a picture is accidental and how much of it is doing the entire job. An example of the shape, not a real client photo: "You are the only person in the frame not looking at the camera. In a picture that is meant to be about you, you have made yourself the background. Nothing else has to change." One page, 24 hours after payment, one revision if I read your intention wrong. Photos stay private and get deleted after delivery unless you ask me to keep them. I will not read a photo of someone who has not agreed to it. If a photo has nothing in it to read, I say so and you keep your money.