Last April I went to a photo festival in Palm Springs. I took a workshop from Veronique Vial, a well known fashion, celebrity, advertising, etc. photographer. She told us how she started out. She gave herself an assignment. It was to photograph people in their apartments before they were ready to go out, preferably people that were well known. She was lucky enough to get access to some celebrities in the process. The result was a couple books: Men Before 10 and Women Before 10. Since, San Francisco is such a tourist town, I thought it would be a great idea to photograph tourists in their hotel rooms. Veronique's photos were very raw, and shot on black and white film. I was hoping to have mine be more like portraits, perhaps lit, but hopefully capture some of the human elements when people are relaxing after a long day of, well, being tourists. Perhaps, there could be an element of what Martin Parr captured when he photographed the British as they vacationed in Brighton, England. Check out his site: Martin Parr. Anyways, I got my friends to allow me to photograph them when they went on a weekend to wine country. This is the one photo I liked. It was fun. I need to do about 100 more to get a book, which might start getting me noticed, getting people to hire me, and well, maybe get me famous. So, if you are staying in a hotel/motel in Northern CA, email me: marek@marekjulian.com, so I can take your photo (please, please, please)!
