Portrait of a Rock Musician – Randy Mathias
Early this year, I reached out to my musician friend, Randy Mathias about doing some portraits. A great deal of time had passed since we last hung out at Coachella almost 10 years. ago.
Recently we had been in frequent contact with each other. And hearing about his new perspective on life and his goals , I couldn’t think of a better time to photograph him. He did confess it had been a while since he did any sort of a photo shoot, so we spent the time chatting in between changes and I checked in to see how he was doing. He seemed most comfortable after a few rounds of me guiding him to inhale/exhale. The best panacea I can recommend to anyone when on a shoot, photographer included!
I tried a few different set ups, but found these selected images best showing Randy from reflective, sexy, perhaps vulnerable to being calm. It’s such a great experience to photograph someone that I knew almost a decade ago, to reunite and see/hear the changes that the person has gone through. Positive transformation rocks!
I look forward to keeping in touch with him and hoping that his goals will form into realities.
Nice set of portraits.
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Thank you for checking in Cardinal! How are you and the family doing? 🙂
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We’re doing good, but I’m back at work after 3 months paternity leave and I must admit that I don’t like being back in the shackles…
I’m looking forward to see more portraits from you Aimee.
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That’s a pretty good deal that your job allows paternity leave!
Hope you will have time to blog. I see you’re focussing a bit more on various tattoo cultures.
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Yes, but the tattoo articles are extremely time consuming work, so I don’t publish them so often. I still have a couple of more to work on in the series, but I can’t give a time estimate for when I’ll publish them.
All the fathers in Norway are allowed to get 3 months paternity leave. I think my boss didn’t like the fact that I wanted the full 3 months (you can choose to take only two), but I prefer being with my son rather than at my boring job.
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I know how time consuming blogging can be in general, especially when you have either a steady job or simply promoting your craft. I’m definitely no stranger to this.
The portrait series is ongoing. Schedule permitting for myself and the subjects. I just don’t like falling off my commitment once I’ve started! 😉
In the states there’s “family leave of absence” which could be the same thing but not stated as “paternity leave”.
Will keep any eye out on your upcoming articles. It;s been cool to see the varying topics you’ve covered. 🙂
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