Portrait of Lori Nay, the Mayor of Gunnison

Meet Lori Nay, Mayor of Gunnison, Utah.

I met Lori’s daughter Amy a few years ago when I spent three days doing headshots for all the employees at Fox 13 in Salt Lake (Amy’s one of the evening anchors, there). Then Amy, bless her heart, told her mayor mother to come to me for her official mayor portrait. She’ll choose from the images I send her which one will hang in the hall at their city office building along with all the other mayor portraits from years past. There will be one difference with this portrait, however. Lori is the first woman mayor in the town history.

We had a lovely time talking about small towns and I asked her why she’s so darn ambitious. I told her meeting people like her and being able to photograph people like her, is the reason I love being a photographer.

Michelle Quist

I’ve known Michelle Quist for many years, now, and have photographed her a number of times. I was so excited to hear she was running for Attorney General in Utah. She would be the absolute best. at that job. On account of her running such a campaign, she needed updated headshots to go along with all the campaign content and material she would be putting out. I was honored to photograph her and welcome her back to the studio in Provo.

The site for her campaign can be seen here, if you care to take a look: https://www.michelleforutah.com/

Shaun Johnson

If you’re not already following Shaun Johnson on Instagram then that’s really your top priority today, but only if you like to laugh.

We had a great time when he came to the studio to be photographed. And we laughed. Well, I did. Like crazy.

Actor portraits of Sasha Fazulyanov

Sasha Fazulyanov needed updated actor headshots and portraits and came to the studio in Provo to get that done. Smashing and likable, meet Sasha. Click any image to view it larger.

Portraits of the BYU Broadcasting employees

It took four days, but we got it done. In September, I photographed every full time employee at BYU Broadcasting (nearly everyone--some were out of town). 

I really love how these turned out, and I've got to hand it to BYU Broadcasting for not settling on the safe, straight-forward, head and shoulders shot, but instead, be willing to get something with a little more personality, pizazz, and quirkiness. They told their employees they could bring a prop if they wanted that reflected something about their personality, job, or outside interests (so that's why you may see a dog or fly rod in some of these, among other things).

The shoot was set up so that I'd have a decent amount of time with each person. Long enough for me to learn something about their life, their job, their personality, and then make a portrait that was a reflection of that in some way.

Meet the folks at BYU Broadcasting! Click on any image to view it larger.