Photograffiti
Model holding the light stand herself, laughing

Priya Raman

Verified

London · Editorial

Large format in a city that will not hold still. Two sheets per look, weather be damned; the stillness in the prints is earned, not staged.

Response < 12 h 63 shoots
Formal portrait with large-format stillness, gown in full
PLATE 01 4×5 large format · two sheets, one keeper · strobe into muslin
Fabric caught by wind, model braced against it
PLATE 02 Rooftop, force-5 wind · 85mm · dress uncontrolled by design
Model beneath a broken chandelier, dust in the beam
PLATE 03 Location: a half-demolished ballroom · available light

Selected clients

  • Meridian Magazine
  • Clarke & Sons
  • Northlight

In the bag

  • 4×5 field camera, two holders
  • Strobe into muslin when the sky sulks
  • The weather app, open and ignored

Editor's notes

The cover held the newsstand for two cycles. Numbers do not lie.

— Edwina Clarke, editor-in-chief, meridian magazine

Large format in a gale. She got the sheet. I still think about it.

— Old assistant, now a photographer