The Color White

After I finished shooting Natasha, it was time to start setting up for my shoot with Anne Costa, who represented the color white. For every subject and color I always create a mood board way before the shoot to start planning out my setups. Not every setup is always planned though, sometimes inspiration strikes in the moment!

Mood board for the color white.

Before I started shooting any subject, I asked them a series of questions to gauge how to design a shoot best suited to who they are. With Anne, she told me this beautiful story of how she grew up surrounded by nature and how her grandmother referenced white flowers. I knew I wanted to design a shoot that was true to the elements she told me in her story and used a ton of plants and flowers in my setups…

Flowers were hung from the ceiling on fishing wire

The last setup up I did was creating a splattered canvas look to go into how she expressed white being like a blank canvas and how you see every mark…

I ordered a piece of canvas from Amazon and had a great time splattering paint on it previous to the shoot. After this, I hung a black drop and clamped the piece of canvas to it. See image below.