I've shot this picture of my friend, Victor Talledos, a couple weeks ago. We were shooting at Las Pulgas Water Temple, where we found a nice tree, and we thought that could be a good place for him to climb and play around.
I've set two Elinchrom D4-s up, one at his left with an umbrella and the other behind him with a grid.
After an hour or so, we started to move from "nice poses" to a more emotional direction. He was wearing white linen clothes, in which he looked like someone from the wild-forest areas of Asia. Given the background and him sitting on a tree we felt he should reach back to his basic, animal instincts so he stared to scream...
https://fstoppers.com/originals/how-be-chosen-fstoppers-picture-day-24218
Dear Rebecca,
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This is a cool photo, but it reminds me of Noam Galai's "Stolen Scream" photo / article.
https://fstoppers.com/originals/update-stolen-scream-one-year-later-6286
Thank you.
As unbelievable as it may sound, I have never seen that picture or article before, but now that I looked it up I see why my picture reminds you of the "Stolen Scream".
However I still feel they have nothing to do with each other except both show a guy screaming. The pictures have totally different concepts and different technical executions behind them.
What I had in mind when taking this picture is more the primal nature of human kind shown as: http://overacigar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screaming-monkey.jpg
Thank you for bringing this point up :)
I think as photographer.. as artists, we always try to create work that won't be referenced to someone elses, but Galai's photo is so well known that it's hard not to.