Just Four Days Left To Support Face To Face Creative Portraits On Kickstarter

Making Choices

Face To Face Creative Portraits is well over double its target and on the way to £6000 now with four days left. Just £69 away from hitting that figure. Here’s my thoughts on why I selected who I have for the book and who I have left out…

When I decided that I would put this book together, I wanted to apply certain criteria to it. I wanted it to encapsulate many but obviously not all of the people I have interviewed and photographed over the years but all of the photos needed to be of a certain quality. So they needed to be well composed, well framed and taken well. So there are certain people I have photographed over the years who aren’t in the book because I haven’t managed to take photos of them that I am happy with the results. There may be scope for a follow up which includes a different set of subjects in it. Going through my photos to select ones for the book has been an interesting one, a little like a trip down memory lane finding photos I had forgotten I had taken. So it’s been an interesting book to assemble.

In over thirty years as a professional journalist I have interviewed pretty much every mover and shaker in the worlds of comics, film, TV and genre. Also if I have been lucky enough to  do it face to face, I have always made sure I can capture them with one of my own photos. So I thought it was time to try and encapsulate this in a book. Face to Face features 50 subjects from the worlds of comics, film, TV, books and genre, offering a snapshot if you’ll pardon the pun of my career as a journalist and a photographer.
Shooting portraits sometimes with only a few minutes to do this at a press event or a convention rather than the comfort of a creator’s home or studio surroundings can be a challenge. For me creating a portrait is intended to be a piece that reflects the essence of the subject that I have shot and that is why I like to photograph people that I have interviewed as I already have a rapport with the subject.

Here’s where to pledge on the book and get us further along with just 4 days left to go on the campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tripwire100/face-to-face-0?