Peter Stevens

"When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” ¯ Ted Grant

One of the areas I have been branching into more and more is the living portrait - capturing the individual in their natural environment, being themselves. I was visiting Peter in his current vocation (current as in the last 28 years) as proprietor of the Book Scout in Greenport. We were chatting and I asked permission to shoot him as can be seen here:

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We were interupted by a slightly rude customer who stepped into the shoot and started talking to Peter, but in that break of mere seconds the real Peter came to the surface. I quickly switched gears and went for the shot I really wanted. This was my favorite.