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Its about fifteen years I guess since I saw Once were Warriors, probably the most emotionally devastating film I've ever seen. This woman is an amazing actress, and now in a show down in Oz called The Straits which looks great (from the bits I've seen on youtube). It was a pleasure and an honor to meet and photograph the great Rena Owen
Last year this was my neighbour. He has a three year old daughter as do I so we ended up spending a little time together while our children played together. He always seemed to be around so I figured he must have some sort of freelance life like mine. Eventually, as we got to know each other I found that he is what I now know is called a 'sober coach'. Or as he described, "I help rich kids get straight".
I observed that perhaps he had had a little experience on the other side of the sober fence and he smiled and agreed that perhaps he had. He and his family were moving out to Topanga for a quieter life and I managed to squeeze in a quick shoot the day before they left Mar Vista.
He was the subject of a NY Times story a few years ago, but I didn't shoot that. You can read it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/fashion/15sober.html?pagewanted=all
I don't want to go into what happened in his past since I never met that Ronnie. The Ronnie I met was sweet and worried about how to erase or modify the tattoos on his hands before his daughter was able to read them.
I was surprised when I was in NY earlier this month that everyone wanted to know about the one picture I had of Ronnie in my folio. Everyone wanted to see more. The lovely Brenna Britton at People told me to shoot some more (I've spoken to Ronnie, and we're going to).
In the meantime, here are some more from that quick session.
For Rolling Stone - the aussie version (they're touring there RIGHT NOW - go see them if you can - awesome show)
Shot in New Orleans in a hotel room....for a very short video of me at work go to http://youtu.be/XWbIktkuAZM
After briefing me about the need for a graduated blue b/g they ran it with white. Go figure.
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