Hugh Hamilton

Chatting one day to the mother of one of my daughter's friends. And what does your husband do? I ask, making conversation. He shoes horses, she smiles back. Oh he's a farrier? I ask, amazing myself that I know the right word. At the right time (that so rarely happens).

Then I said, could I take his picture?

A story for the Sydney Morning Herald on the expanding Google Empire - this was at the Mountain View main campus....around thirteen buildings I think...so large they supply free bikes to help you get around. You can read the story here http://www.smh.com.au/technology/google-world-20111121-1nprr.html

Not that man. This the man who directed that man. Cast that man. And this is the BTS video of that man making the next man who could smell like that man. I actually had a great idea for this shoot, and Tom liked it, but didn't have time. But he had an idea. He wanted to be photographed as David Cronenberg - or at least, as Cronenberg had been photographed way back in the time when he only made horror films, leaning on a pile of his films that were oozing blood from the cans......its a bit uncomfortable being asked to shoot a version of someone else's image, but he so wanted to do it. And perhaps I hoped that we could steer it off in a different direction during the shoot. Sigh.....we did and of course the magazine runs with the pastiche.....albeit without the blood. They had a problem with that.

Hence the sanitized cover. Check out the original shots below.