Each Spring Time Out magazine publishes a special Paris issue and it's a commission I've been fortunate to photograph annually for the last seven years now. This years issue was slightly different in that rather than photographing venues worth visiting the feature would be centred around the staff at the new Time Out office in Paris and their recommendations.
Each of the staff writers were responsible for different areas such as Art, Theatre, Cinema etc and I would be photographing five of them at the venues of their choice.
I only had three days to shoot and edit the portraits plus shoot another two restaurants so it was always going to be tight for time, The first of the three days shooting would be Sunday so I spent most of Saturday arranging the meets and working of what was to be the order of the shoots to maximise the time available
The first of the shoots was to be with Tania the correspondent for the Arts section and she had chosen the Masion Rouge near Bastille which was a venue I'd not previously visited. Once I met her and her friend at the venue the staff were fine with a shoot taking place in the gallery but as it was open to the public using a light stand would not be permitted (health and safety), as the exhibition consisted of works in neon lights it was perfectly understandable they didn't want a light stand being knocked over in their general direction
Luckily Tania's friend came to the rescue and acted as a human light stand holding the flash and umbrella with arms above her head for the duration of the shoot which I was very grateful for.
The exhibition gave a lot of choice for backgrounds and we were spoilt for choice, I also liked the fact that the geometric shapes in some of the work were echoed in the sitters clothing. I was after a choice of images with some including people in the background to show the place was active, luckily it was not too busy and I didn't have to wait too long for someone to either enter or exit the background
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