KING KONG height-17 C007237 - $2

C007237 - $2

No mode of transport is more emblematic of the great push West and the attendant dangers

just before we were closing a section of Sunset Boulevard for a Sunday morning shoot

Nothing I had taken before was special and nothing certainly constituted art

There is a timeless authority to the photograph and monochrome lends to that authority

KING KONG height-17 C007237 - $2Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2011 I wanted to photograph a mountain gorilla head on with straight eye to eye contact. This is, after all, the ultimate of encounters and intuitively I suspected that a studied portrait could carry more emotion and be more timeless than a rushed action shot. An adult gorillas face is enormous and full of often unexplored detail. This image plays to these themes I just wish he did not hold me in quite such magnificent