Ariane is corporate trainer for OC Tanner and needed some headshots/portraits for speaker bios and press releases and I’m delighted she came to the studio to be photographed. She is from the Ivory Coast, speaks five languages (that’s four more than I speak) and she is poised and dignified and very cool.
Musician portrait - Robert Loud
The very cool and multi-talented musician, Robbie Connolly, or if you want his stage name, it’s Robert Loud, or, if you want to just address his hair, it’s Hair Majesty (his hair doesn’t really have a name, but maybe it should and it should be Hair Majesty.
Robbie is working on new music and came to the studio to be photographed, accompanied by his wife, the also very cool Caitlin Connolly.
Caitlin had very specific ideas about what she was looking for and how she wanted these portraits to look. Her most specific request was that the whole thing be shot on film. And while I cut my teeth learning about photography back in the film days, long before anyone had heard of a digital camera, and while I still shoot film on a regular basis both for myself and for clients, it has been a few years since I shot an entire job on film, without shooting a single shot on digital. I was happy that’s what they were looking for and excited to go for it. It was also a bit like a tight-wire act, without being able to see a single frame that we had shot. .
The pictures were taken at my studio in Provo, UT. I shot four rolls of Kodak TMax 400, and the camera I used was the good old Contax G2 with both a 50mm lens and a 28mm lens, which I’ve had since back in the day when I would shoot a whole job on that thing.
Thanks Robbie for hiring me to make some album art for you, thanks Caitlin for being an inspired guide and art director through this, and thanks Scout Smith for assisting that day. We make a great team, the four of us.
Musician portraits and headshots
Sonia is a musician and wanted updated headshots to help promote her music. She came to the studio in Provo and we had a hoot.
Austin Channing Brown
Here’s a portrait of the very cool Austin Channing Brown, who I was able to meet and photograph at this year’s Alt Summit. I recommend her book I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness
Birthday self portraits
Yesterday, on my birthday, I did what I’ve been doing on my birthday for at least ten years. I took as many self portraits as the age I turned. This year I’m 56, so I took 56 self portraits. It’s hard (for me) thinking up that many new pictures every time, so there are some repeated ideas from previous years. But there is something new. This year I wanted to ask strangers if they’d be in a picture. So, there’s some strangers in this year’s self portraits, and some familiar faces with friends. This might be my favorite year, yet. Every year, I wonder if this is the last year I’ll do this. I don’t know. I guess we’ll cross that bridge a year from now. For now, I’ll be glad I had the time to do this again.
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If you want to see previous years, here are the images from the following ages:
Ken Potts is 102 today.
Today marks Ken Potts' 102nd birthday. He is a remarkable survivor of the infamous Japanese attack on the USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor bombing. The ill-fated ship was carrying a total of 1,512 people when it was targeted, tragically resulting in the deaths of 1,177 individuals. Ken managed to survive the attack and is now one of only two remaining survivors still alive to this day. Here’s a portrait I made of Ken just a few months ago at his home in Provo, Utah.
Happy Birthday, Ken.
Ken Potts, photographed at his home in Provo, Utah, September 2022
Birthday self portraits
For eleven years now, I’ve done this project. Since age 44, I started taking self portraits on my birthday. I take as many portraits as the age that I’m turning. So, yesterday, on my 55th birthday, I made 55 self portraits. Some were on my own when I was at my office, some were with friends that came over in the evening for root beer floats. I don’t know how long I’ll do this tradition, but at this point I can’t see a reason to end it.
(Here’s where you can see what I did in 2022).
Some of the images are repeat ideas from previous years. I kind of like shooting how my day starts and ends, so that motif gets repeated from year to year. And some of the images get repeated because, I’ll be honest, it’s hard to think of 55 brand new self portrait ideas that I’ve never done before. So here you go. Fifty five self portraits on the occasion of my 55th birthday.
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JessiKate Riley Miss Utah USA 2021
JessiKate Riley, in 2021, won Miss Utah USA. Built Bar was a sponsor for her, and Chase Marketing lined up this shoot.
Alt Summit portraits, 2019
This year was the 10th anniversary of Alt Summit. I’ve been all ten years. It’s how I met and became best friends with Martha. (You may know her as Martha Stewart).
Ok, fine. We’re not best friends, but Alt is how I met her and others. Like Joanna Gaines, this year, and last year that lady that played Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights —Minka Kelly— and Sarah Michelle Gellar and Christy Turlington and I think you get the idea.
This year I was hired to photograph Alt attendees. Here’s a tiny sample.
If you have an interest in seeing more, here’s one of each person: http://www.justinhackworth.com/alt-summit-2019 Thanks for looking!
Family portraits in Provo
Five pictures of three people
Family portraits
Five pictures of three people.
Laurelin and Jordan came to the studio in Provo to be photographed on the occasion of their son's first birthday.
Ryan Innes
Musician portraits for Ryan Innes. I don't know anyone who has a better voice than this guy.
Halloween Portraits
A little out of season? Ah, come on. It's always time for some cute costumes.
For the last two years, a few days before Halloween, I send out an email to those on our newsletter list, and invite them to bring their Halloween costumed kids of any age to the studio for a quick and complimentary portrait. (How do you get on the newsletter list? Easy--go here).
It's such great fun (and maybe kind of noisy) and the costumes these kids show up in are so stinking cute.
I'll probably do it again this year, but you never know. Here are a handful from last year. Click on any image to view it larger.
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Halloween Portraits
A little out of season? Ah, come on. It's always time for some cute costumes.
For the last two years, a few days before Halloween, I send out an email to those on our newsletter list, and invite them to bring their Halloween costumed kids of any age to the studio for a quick and complimentary portrait. (How do you get on the newsletter list? Easy--go here).
It's such great fun (and maybe kind of noisy) and the costumes these kids show up in are so stinking cute.
I'll probably do it again this year, but you never know. Here are a handful from last year. Click on any image to view it larger.
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Bridal Portraits in Provo Canyon
I kept calling him Andrew even though his name is Tyler but I had a good reason. He has a brother named Andrew that looks and sounds just like him, who I also photographed. But that was four years ago, so basically you could say I have a great memory.
Meet Tyler and Sydney, soon to be wed.
Photographed in Provo Canyon, and my photography studio in downtown Provo.
High school senior portrait photography
Here's Andrew, about to graduate from high school and head out into the world to do great things, no doubt. Andrew does a lot of things well, and one of those things is photography. Over the past year, I've enjoyed seeing his work, and talking through some photography conversations with him.
Meet Andrew.
Photographed at my studio in Provo, Utah, and downtown.
Women In Film - Cast of Extinct
In February, I visited the set of the upcoming BYU TV sci-fi drama, Extinct, to photograph the female cast and crew (actors, wardrobe, script--you get the idea). The images were part of a promotion for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
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Where Women Create - Carly
Here's Carly Britton, photographed for Where Women Create.
Favorite photographs of 2016
This is a list of my favorite photographs I took in 2016. They are compiled from the client work I got, in addition to the things I shot on my own.
It's an incomplete list, really. I initially selected more images than shown, here, but narrowed it down to a more blog manageable size. And for any one event, I tried to only include a single image. So calling this post my "favorite images" isn't entirely accurate. It is some of my favorite images.
So, out of the thousands and thousands of pictures I took in 2016, here are 165 in random order, that for me, rose to the top.
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There is a lot of variety, here, but I hope you can see some stylistic consistency. I hope a unique point of view and perspective comes through. Thanks for looking through these.
And maybe you'll be in the mix for 2017?
Brooke White
Best voice in the world, Brooke White.
Photographed at my studio in downtown Provo.