Paris Texas Leica
Me doing my best to channel Nastassja Kinski's character, Jane Henderson, in one of my favourite movies, Paris, Texas.
For the longest time I have been wanting to do a shoot inspired by the most classic scene in one of my favourite movies, Paris, Texas.
When I first started taking pictures I used to enlist friends to be in photo shoots styled to look like characters from David Lynch movies and I loved how this process would involve using cinema as inspiration and feed my love of fashion and styling.
I moved away from photographing people and developed a love for random, inanimate objects as my subject of choice. Whilst I love this genre, it has left a person shaped hole in my heart and I knew I wanted to get back to this creative process again.
I have owned this pink jumper for a long time now and I knew it would be perfect to style for a Paris Texas inspired portrait session.
But what really brought this whole series together was a giant camera we own (that i actually hate using) that due to it’s size, is referred to as the “Texas Leica” but is actually a Fuji GW690.
The name for this camera, and the fact that it’s a medium format made it ideal for this shoot.
And so the Paris Texas Leica project was born.
With enough convincing I would have gone as far as to dye my hair blonde just for this shoot!
We opted for Kodak Portra 400 pushed 1 stop in development to add a little more punch in the colours and I have to say I’m really happy with how it turned out.
I wished I could have gone all out and got a full set that embodied the scene more fully but I think that was something that was allowing me to procrastinate ever pulling the trigger (or should I say shutter) on this photo project.
I knew it would have enough of a nod to the movie with the pink fluffy jumper and the poses I tried to do which all came from this pinterest board of scenes from the movie.
I love the texture of the jumper on film - it just looks so lush!
We also shot a series of Instax Wide to evoke that BTS sort of feel that movie sets had back in the day.
A 1:1 BTS Instax from my Paris Texas inspired photo shoot.
You can see, and shop them, all here.
They are obviously all one off photographs that you will be the only owner of, which is pretty cool!
The three images you see here in this post are also available to purchase as fine art prints via my print shop.
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