Picture Stories by Stephen Alvarez

Us alone, crowd sourcing a show

Us Alone: An Exhibition from Laura Stevens on Vimeo.

Laura Stevens is trying to crowd source funding for a show of her portraits. Take a look at them, they are pretty amazing. She still has over a thousand pounds to go and just a few days to do it.

 

portraits: setting the stage

above, Band Yakchel, Iran

It often surprises people to find out that I started life as a portrait photographer. I'm well known for my adventure and underground work, but I learned about light and photography by assisting Doug Merriam on portrait jobs. 

Earning a living, time and the Gitzo computer tray

When I first switched from film to digital I was shocked at the amount of time that digital photogrphy took out of my shooting day. Every day there was an extra 2-3 hours that I had to suddenly be renaming, downloading, backing up and captioning files. 2-3 hours out of what were already 14 hour days. That was time that I used to eat and sleep. At one NG meeting an editor said "listen I can not get that time back for you, it is gone..."

Bievre Sewer, Paris

God I am in the weeds today, swamped, subterranean. Hence the photo. I'm judging a contest tomorrow at UAH but still trying to get my talk together, and schedule a shoot in Nashville the next day and break down from yesterday's portrait session...

-Stephen Alvarez

New Portrait section on my web site

New Portraits are live on my web site here.

Stephen Alvarez

Sewanee, TN