If I would have seen her across a busy restaurant conversing with a friend, I would have 1000% introduced myself and begged her to let me photograph her. That didn’t happen, but still the universe did its thing to get this legend in front of my lens.
I can hardly take credit for any of the resulting images because I didn’t direct anything. I couldn’t. It would have been a shame to, just as it would have been a shame to retouch the images. She flowed and grimaced and launched and stood up and sat down and buzzed in and out of the frame in a blur of hair and laughter. I couldn’t keep up. And I loved every second of it.
A musician, an artist, definitely a free spirit; this woman had me on my toes and left me in awe. What we captured in those 30 short minutes is animated, authentic, out of focus, grainy, raw, imperfect, and some of my favorite images of all time.
She moved me.
