The Runaway

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.