Over the past 10 years I have been fortunate enough to photograph some of the most influential people in the arena of politics and international affairs. I alway find dignitaries to be the most interesting people (even if I don't always agree with their politics).
After just having finished reading a book , "A Journey: My Political Life" by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, I was excited to be given the great opportunity to shoot Mr. Blair for the World Leaders Conference which happened to be hosted here in West Palm Beach at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
For this portrait I wanted...
In the closet in the back of my studio is a box full of slides; they are some of the hundreds of images I took in my first early years of photographing musicians about 14 years ago. At the time, many of them weren't known to anyone but their families, managers and a handful of record industry types; many never made it past that moment in time, while others went on to become international "superstars". The funny thing about those images is that in that moment, I captured something in those people that no one had seen before, and if they had any measure of success, would probably never be seen...