Stratagies Magazine

Photoshoot by Colm Pierce - Stratagies Magazine

Pascal Calzada

So this was for Statagies Magazine which was a magazine for the advertising world in France. Simple portrait in an office, as boring as it gets! Before a shoot I’d find myself leafing through catalogues I’d bought at the Musee Dapper. It was a marvellous little place and they had these amazing African arts exhibitions.

I remember seeing Kota and Dogoon masks and thinking maybe I could do something like that in my photography. So for this shoot with Pascal Calzada I wanted his face surrounded by feathers. I was using a Pentax 6×7 and only had about 10 shots on a roll. I think I slowed down the shutter speed to about ¼ sec and when I saw the flash fire I pulled the camera away from him. The good old days of film!

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