I was commissioned to created a series of character portraits for the Supermonkey show after I created the lead image that won a place in Communication Arts Magazine 2010 Photography Annual. I art directed these as well as shooting them because they were done while rehearsals were in progress. I scouted exterior building walls in different parts of the warehouse district and the Seward neighborhoods in Minneapolis that matched the characters' costumes. My vision for this series of images was to create monochromatic portraits that would give the characters as they saw themselves in the play a one dimensional feel - a commentary on our public faces that often stand in opposition to our private selves. I also find that the character faces stand out more prominently when I match wardrobe to background. I matched the lighting in this series to the main promotional image that we'd created two weeks before. The scouting took some time but I was amazed at how many colored walls and doors I found in such close proximity to the rehearsal space. The nuance came in finding the wall textures that best helped to support the specific portraits. I created 13 portraits in 13 different locations for this project.
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