In January Lavenda Memory, Camille
Collard, and I set Palm Springs, California on fire. The weekend included
submerged cell phones, polaroids, private parties, gourmet dinners, dancing, the Palm
Springs Film Festival Gala and an epic photo shoot.
For our
shoot we channeled our alter egos and worked to rid ourselves of the average
way society and even the camera views us. I leapt at the chance to show my
inner wild child with a gloss of rock star.
We went out with a mission to smoke some cigs and loose ourselves in the
moment. That moment came when we hopped the fence of our manicured gated
community into an oddly placed trailer park. That is when Lavenda and I made the
magic happen. The hot grit and grime was the perfect backdrop for a girl
without a care. We took over an elderly woman’s front porch and shot the images
that will be featured on the Ben Trovato Blog today. The elderly woman came out
to say hello, noticing the way I was dressed, she began to tell me about her
experience in the ministry of her church. This was Lavenda’s cue to run while
I was trapped listening to Betty’s tragedies of her husband passing and her
current UTI. As soon as I assured her I was also a God fearing Christian she
let me escape back to the girls to shoot our last images of the day. The trip
was one I’ll never forget and these images will be ones you soon won’t either. Here
are some behind the scenes images of our shoot. Once the photos are published
on the BTV Blog I’ll post them here.
