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| Patrice Bilawka - September 1996 - New scan 26 December 2024 |
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| New Scan 26 December 2024 |
At Christmas dinner with my family in Burnaby I told Lauren, who was taking the group photographs that she was taking too many. With that serious look of hers she responded, “You should talk with those millions of photographs you have in your archives.”
I am not too sure if she is correct with her term of millions. Today I decided to look into old archives and I chose Patrice Bilawka.
In September of 1996 I pointed out to my friend Ian McGuffie that our sidekick photographic friend Bilawka was extremely beautiful. Because we did photo projects together she was one of the “boys”.
I decided to ask Bilawka to pose for me. This she did. She had no compunctions of taking it all off. I worked mostly with natural light and I was blessed with lovely window reflection shadows.
Today I decided to do one of my scanner sandwiches by combining two negatives. I liked the results. When I went to save it in my Bilawka file I found I had done quite a few sandwiches perhaps three years ago. I am 82 so my excuse for my poor memory is my only excuse.
It is a pity that all those art directors of the 20th century I worked with in magazines and good newspapers are now retired and journalism is moribund. They would be assigning me to use these techniques that were unknown then.
