I define
this century as the photographer that I am – Access Denied.
In that long
gone20th I had access to important and famous people. Les Wiseman who wrote a
column In One Ear for Vancouver Magazine soon found out that my photographs of
rock stars with microphones in front of their mouths looked like everybody
else. We had pull so we did interviews and photographs back stage or in hotels.
The two
pictures I am using today to illustrate this blog I took at our Vancouver City
Morgue in March 1994. Not only was I given access but I asked the caretakers to
hose the floor as I wanted it to shine. I took my pictures with two cameras.
For the panoramic with my swivel lens Widelux I used extremely fast Kodak 3200
ISO T-Max Film. For the other I loaded my Mamiya RB-67 with the sharpest film ever made, Kodak Technical
Pan that had a small ISO of 25.
I doubt that
I would obtain access now as I would not be able to represent any magazine or
newspaper.