The Photographer Project: by Brian Ach

The Photographer Project is a personal project by Brooklyn-based photographer Brian Ach which consists of full-length studio portraits of entertainment photographers who are based in NYC.

The concept was to give the tabloid-buying public a glimpse into the lives of the people who supply these celebrity images to the media around the world on a daily basis.

The portraits were shot on 6×4.5 medium format film and also with Canon digital cameras.

The portraits are slice-of-life.

The photographers were told to dress as they would when shooting a large movie premiere; to “arrive as-is, without any embellishments.”

The Photographer Project consists of staff and freelance wire service, event, and paparazzi shooters.

The portraits are all shot in my studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A gallery exhibit is in the planning stages, after which the pictures, along with 10 standardized questions to be answered by each photographer, will be made into a book.

The main goal for this project is to raise money for a well-known entertainment photographer in New York, Paul Hawthorne, who passed away of amylodiosis, a serious blood disease.

Over 70 photographers have come in for their portrait.

http://www.brianach.com

Filmed by: Chris Barrett