One of the best things about having a blog is that you can bring people's attention to something you did a while ago, something that maybe happened abroad, like in the UK, and no one really heard, or noticed, or asked you about it but you really thought they should. Anyway what a blog does is give you the chance to show this thing again, as I saw cleverly noted on someone's website recently, to flashback. In the case of my portrait of Lorena Bobbit, commissioned in 2008 by the Sunday Telegraph UK, it allows me 2 flashbacks. My own personal memory of shooting her, in the D.C. suburb of Manassas Virginia, and the collective flashback to 1993 when she so famously cut off her husbands penis. She came to the shoot accompanied by her current husband, a large man who mentioned that he would like to be played by Vince Vaughn should a movie of her life ever be made. She herself was quiet, a bit wary, and very nice. She did what I asked her to, which was to raise her hand to her face in somewhat doleful manner (either self-consoling or shielding, both indicative for me of her famous history with domestic violence), and wait that way, the gruelingly long time for me to adjust my large format camera.
