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I was faced with many challenges in achieving this shooting session with Arianna. The first challenge was to find a model that would meet my critical aesthetic requirements, which Arianna easily met and indeed surpassed. Yes, I have been told many times that I am tough on aesthetics. I don’t really think that I am. I have my preferences and as it happens, my preferences do tend to please most viewers of my glamor photographic work. But at the same time my range of preferences is rather wide. Anyone looking at my work would see that. But getting back to my challenges of shooting Ariana… We (my wife Mary and I) had just driven in to Rapallo, Italy from Chamonix, France, arriving one hour before the agreed upon time to start the session. We had to check into our hotel, unpack and set-up our equipment, do some test shots and be ready for Ariana’s arrival. It all had to be fast, flawless like clock-work. This was not what I am used to. My work is rarely on-location. I do most of my work in a more leisurely fashion, in my home studio, where I have all my lighting equipment and, apparently, unlimited shooting locations around the house. In Rapallo, at the hotel, I was limited to our room and the requested balcony facing the Mediterranean with Portofino to one side and the Rapallo Marina on the other. A pretty nice setting. The only lighting equipment I brought was a single strobe head mounted on a stand with a reflector umbrella. After setting-up, I tested the strobe and it worked just fine, but then I heard a “pop” sound that came from the head and, just as I thought, it was no longer functioning. Arianna, who came from Milan, arrived twenty minutes early. Very unusual for a model. Most of my models call an hour late asking for directions. This was a refreshing change. I could see that great things were going to come of it. And so the session began.

“Impressions After The Session” documents a conversation between photographer Sol Lang and his wife Mary Bogdan that took place after a photoshoot with model Arianna Espen Grimoldi in Rapallo, Italy. The conversation is interspersed with behind the scenes footage of the actual session and the film includes many of the resulting photographs.
“This film – an oeuvre of love – culminates my various passions, including photography, videography and beauty, especially feminine beauty. It is one of my most labor intensive works. It combines almost the entirety of a photoshoot, that took place in 2012, at which time I had intended to one day produce a short documentary film. The work consisted of film editing, post production of the photographs and the final assembly of stills and video. My wife and collaborator shot most of the video during the session, while I was photographing Arianna (the model).
In the course of creating this film, I learned many things about my art. But mostly about the process of communication through photography and videography.
I hope that it will be an inspiration to those who’s interests are photography, especially those interested in the collaboration of artist and model.”

Taken in: Italy / Liguria / Rapallo / Pagana (show map)

Taken on: July 16, 2020

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