More 'early work'

Connie and Carla go to the drive in, 2004

I consider "early work" to be anything pre-2003. This image was made in May of 2004, but I don't shoot work like this much anymore, so I'll let it slide.

The image above was taken on my way home from shooting the first half of the Lycanthrope series. I was coming from the Catskills on Route 9G and saw this to my left. As a child growing up I lived near an old drive-in theater; I remembered most of them have their own radio station now so you don't need those clunky speakers. I parked on the side of the road, flipped through the stations and enjoyed half a movie for free. I then decided to pay half price and get closer for the second feature; it was Van Helsing (an amazingly bad werewolf movie)! I couldn't pass it up and I'm very happy I didn't. That movie was exactly what I needed after the horrible experience I had the night before.

Speaking of werewolves - I had just finished the Lycanthrope series that morning (example). I was all alone for 2 nights wearing this crazy make-up and I had a bunch of photo equipment spread out all over the place. The worst part was trying to take self-portraits with all the make-up and not having anyone to help me with the lights or the film. Not to mention, I was partially blinded by the melting make-up -- a horrible experience. Many more terrible things happpend that night - I've suppressed most of them by now. See some behind-the-scenes images from the second shoot -- I had help on that one.