Johns Hopkins Nursing Portraits
I was commissioned to shoot a portrait series featuring the nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital accompanied by bio-captions describing the important roles these nurses brought to their respective departments. Having shot at hospitals a lot over the years, I realized my biggest logistical hurdle was going to be coordinating the schedules of the doctors and nurses. So I proposed shooting pseudo-David Hockney photographic collage style. I wanted to shoot this way just in case someone was unable to make the scheduled time for the portrait sitting. This way, I could use another person as a stand-in with a white coat to fill the edge of the frame of the person who was there, come back and re-shoot the person who missed the session, then fix it in post. I was thrilled with how they turned out. It offered both a visually unique styling AND scheduling flexibility for the doctors and nurses. Final prints were 24×38 and set in a white matte with a black frame.
Tags: Doctor, Johns Hopkins, Nurse, Portraits
April 24th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Beautiful images. Very impressive how you were able to get such warm and expressive images from what I’m sure was a very clinical environment.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Thank you Wei, you are very good at image making yourself.