He jokes that there’s no “decisive moment,” in the famous words of Henri Cartier-Bresson. For him, it’s a “decisive morning.”
He likes that early light, and the pace his camera demands. He might ask a subject to join him for breakfast in his backyard in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Between setup and shooting, they often spend a few hours getting to know each other over coffee or beer or catching up on the months they’ve missed each other.
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Or, as he wrote, “somewhere between hopeful acquaintance and profound intimacy is where all of my portraits are made.”
Jake Shivery is a portraitist based in Portland, Oregon. You can follow his work on Flickr.
