UNEASY Tony Curtis
I mentioned to my mother-in-law that I was going to the West Coast to shoot with Tony Curtis. She said to me, “We know him as ‘Bernard Schwartz.’”
UNEASY Jake Tapper
As the launch of the Uneasy exhibition wound down on a cold February night my First Assistant pulled up in a vehicle full of gear and we were off to D.C. to photograph Jake Tapper for GQ Magazine.
UNEASY Spike Jonze
While preparing to publish Uneasy I contacted Spike Jonze to see if he would write a piece for the book. I was thinking that he could provide the foreword, but here is what he sent instead.
UNEASY Pussy Galore
While photographing them in a Toronto park, I mentioned that I had “Cocksucker Blues” on video. The band had some time to kill, so they drove out to where I lived with my family in the suburbs.
UNEASY Kendrick Lamar
The sitting with Kendrick Lamar is one of the last ones that ended up in the Uneasy book, and that's quite fitting as he was an un-uneasy as you'll find in a subject.
UNEASY Moby
Pat Boone and Moby had both released heavy metal inspired albums so I pitched the idea of doing a story of them together to New York Magazine.
Uneasy Party!
The exhibition of every portrait from Uneasy at PictureHouse is coming down soon so we’re marking it with a party. Featuring a full DJ set by sound artist Maria Chavez!
UNEASY Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne was the star of Trust, for which I was the on-set photographer.
UNEASY Gary Oldman
I’d been in this sort of situation before and had learned that subjects may be more open to ideas than we’re led to believe.
UNEASY John Cale & Lou Reed
John Cale is the first portrait in Uneasy, shot in January of 1986, and then Lou Reed appears from a 2002 sitting. Today I’m featuring pictures of these Velvet Underground veterans.
UNEASY - Mac is Back
Here are some fun alternate shots from the Pitchfork Mac DeMarco sitting in 2014. His longtime girlfriend Kiera McNally was present and the shots of them together are some of my favorites.
UNEASY - Sheila Heti iFAQ
In 2000 I asked a number of friends to send me “infrequently asked questions” for my website, here are some of the questions (and answers) from Sheila Heti’s submission.
UNEASY Margaret Atwood
We began making a real connection when I told her about my experience nine years earlier photographing Robertson Davies.
UNEASY Anton Corbjin
We met up with the Dutch music photographer in a modest hotel room in downtown Toronto in 1987, where we interviewed and photographed him.
UNEASY A$AP
By an odd coincidence of timing, I was set to take care of my daughter at the same time as this last-minute shoot with A$AP Rocky.
Happy Birthday Michelle Golden!
She is a smart complex woman who is always a pleasure to be around, we met in June of 2002 and have been together ever since.
UNEASY Spice Girls
I wanted them maybe giggling or whispering to each other, grouped in the corner, not looking at the camera, leaving the rest of the frame empty.
UNEASY Gene Simmons
The first time that I met Gene, we spent 20 minutes arguing about what the shots might look like. I was frustrated initially but soon realized that he just enjoyed a good argument.
UNEASY Philip Seymour Hoffman Techsheet
I recently came across the techsheet for a Philip Seymour Hoffman shoot. It has a few amusing details, like me sitting in for Philip wearing a blow dryer extension on my head.
UNEASY (Jim) Parsons
At some point, I think someone from the magazine suggested Maria from Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang movie, and I was like, wow, if we could do that, it would be amazing.