Marion under the Moon

These photographs are from an ongoing series called “Marion under the Moon.” The images are set in natural or simulated night-time scenes and involved the use of a great variety of flash techniques and lighting gear, sometimes as many as ten portable flash units and almost as many differing kinds of light modifiers for a single exposure. All of the images feature the same woman, Marion, with her face always turned away from the camera or partly "veiled," manifesting her differing aspects and guises and mysteries, her transformations. I aim to evoke not only hers in particular, but modes and moods of virtually all women (and of men, too, I hope, although men may be less ready to acknowledge it), which is one of the reasons for Marion’s “veiling” and for the choice of simple clothes and settings and objects that aren’t much tied to particular fashions or times or groups.