If you follow my blog, or know my photography at all, you know that I love photographing location portraits. I also really enjoy teaching. My upcoming summer photography class at Pacific Northwest College of Art, in Portland’s Pearl District, neatly melds the two: Location Portrait Photography can create stunning images of people in beautiful locations,...
Vera Katz stepped out of the car, and I introduced myself. “Hi Vera, I’m Fritz.” “Fritz,” she said, “good to meet you. I just want you to know, I have no patience.” And so began my portrait session with former Portland Mayor Vera Katz. It might be her impatience that made her so effective as...
[...] a long list of great places to go. This one is taken on the Portland waterfront (the same place I photographed Mayor Vera Katz, in [...]
Dayn Arnold is a creative genius. Aside from being a great guy, and funny, he also shoots and edits video, plays multiple instruments and records music, and often does both for the same project. (And sometimes, as in the video below, he does it all at the same time!) He worked with me to edit...
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[...] a very clever love song for his girlfriend…–and my comments about him, in this post.) He’s a great guy, and also an exceptional [...]
I was thoroughly delighted to be contacted by Imago Theatre, to photograph some of their fantastic actors and costumes. Jerry Mouawad and his team are well known for their wonderful physical theatre productions. In fact, Shannon and I have a favorite memory, at Frogz, of one of the Orbs stealing her shoe. It ends with...
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[...] excellent performers and wonderful costumes in the studio last winter. (See my post Anteaters, Rabbits, and Rhinos, Oh My!) So it’s fun to see the images come up in the Oregonian, and elsewhere. We took my nephew [...]
The Petersen family are some of my favorite people. I’ve traveled and worked and prayed and served and struggled and talked and photographed with them, from France to Florida to Portland. They’re great folks. So whenever I get the chance to photograph their family, I jump at the chance. They commissioned me to photograph their...
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