Art For Assistants
JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY, CHRISTOPHER, JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY. Every now and then I get the rare privilege of photographing someone where it’s a matter of just getting out of the way. Where who they are naturally exudes so much character and power and beauty and grace, you don’t have to do anything. They walk on set (or into a field), wearing what they wear, standing the way they want, and doing what they feel, and it’s all perfect. Brandon Kuntz and his whole family were those kind of people for me. Ranchers who are spearheading the effort to save the last wild horses of North Dakota, the Kuntzs are the real deal. Tough, kind, endlessly passionate, there is no artifice to any of them. I love them. They are heroes to me.
And if you’d like to purchase a print of Brandon on his horse, now may be the time, as I’ve joined “Art for Assistants,” a GoFundMe campaign started by Tim Tadder to turn paper and ink into financial support for photography assistants.
The concept is simple: Sell 100 fine-art editions of my work (including this one of Brandon), at $100 each, raising $10,000 to support the ones who support us, and who no longer are able work due to Covid-19.
For more information, link into my GoFundMe page by clicking here.
Stanley Kubrick once said, "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” I love that. Thank you all for being the light.
Christopher