Commission — 001
Reportage
Rest
Client
Anvil Press
Category
Reportage
Year
2025
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of twelve
Rest — a driver who did not move for the whole roll
The photograph — 002
The frame that ran
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of twelve
The brief — 003
Anvil Press
A book about long-distance haulage, and a driver who did not move for the whole roll. The commission was for twelve portraits across four depots; this is the first one and it set the terms for the rest.
Frames — as shot
Frames as shot
Frame 27 · hands back on the wheel
The approach — 004
How it was made
Depot light, which is sodium and fluorescent fighting each other, and a subject on a forty-minute break who had no interest in giving up any of it. So the camera went where he already was and stayed there.
Thirty-six frames, one position, one conversation. He talked for the whole roll and looked at the lens twice.
The outcome — 005
2025
Frame nineteen ran as the book's frontispiece. The other eleven drivers were photographed the same way and the book holds together because of it.
One method, applied twelve times, is a body of work. Twelve methods is a folder.
The print — 006
Editions close at twelve
Specification
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of twelve
Process
Chromogenic C-type, RA-4, printed wet
Turnaround
Ten to twelve weeks from the last exposure
Signed
On the verso, numbered, with the negative reference
Next — 007
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