I’ve always been known for discretion. That isn’t branding. It’s how I was trained, and how I moved. If you’ve been trusted in rooms that don’t need witnesses, you learn quickly: the work is the proof. The rest is noise.
There are moments that exist before the world decides what they mean. Photographs that stayed quiet for years, not from secrecy, but from timing. Respect. Value.
In October 1985, I was living in New York City and I photographed Andy Warhol. Not in a public spectacle. Not in a myth. In a studio. In a day that unfolded like any serious day does through craft, pace, and attention. Read my Warhol Homage for more insight on that day.
And then life did what it does. Sixteen months later, while I was working in Australia, Andy went into the hospital and passed away. What we made together remained in my archives. Not hidden. Held.
I’ve carried those frames through decades of assignments, continents, eras of technology, and the constant pressure to turn everything into content.
I don’t republish this work to chase nostalgia. I republish it because it carries a kind of quiet truth that doesn’t expire. A specific tension. A certain restraint. A set of frames that held their breath for decades.
This is not a “throwback.” It’s an archive speaking. And when archives speak, they don’t shout. They change the room.
These photographs were made with film-era discipline. They live now with modern digital precision. But the foundation is the same: consequence, patience, and respect for what a frame can hold.
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