Andrew Eccles has been a freelance photographer based out of New York City since 1987. Prior to becoming an independent photographer, Andrew assisted a number of outstanding photographers including Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel and Annie Leibovitz.
Eccles classically composed, technically flawless style, complemented by his easy-going demeanor has made him the preferred photographer of such celebrities as John Travolta, Kevin Bacon and Brooke Shields. He is able to ease his subjects through the awkward and often uncomfortable experience of being photographed. “It’s scary out there in front of the camera, and your subject should never be alone.”
Although Eccles' images did eventually draw me in it was originally a quote that I ran across that connected me to him. “Back in art college I gravitated more toward still life and landscape photography.” He was afraid to take pictures of people. My first semester at VCU a fine professor made us right a statement about what scared up about out photography. Mine was about how I have a hard time going up to people that I don’t know and asking them to photograph them. He then forced us to confront out fears and from then on portraits of other people is where my photography tends to lay. This is something that both Eccles and I have in common.
Now he absolutely loves portraiture. “It’s probably as intimate a relationship as you can have without touching someone, and it can still be quite terrifying at times in the ‘first date’ kind of way. But there are moments, the rare epiphany when everything comes together for a fraction of a second, when the subject, the light, the composition are all better then you could have imagined. It can happen accidently, but it’s almost more rewarding when the attempt was intentional.. It’s the feeling when you’ve taken a picture so beautiful, powerful, clever or funny that someone is genuinely moved to feel something that they weren’t feeling until they say the picture. Or simply when you can frame a picture, hang it on a wall, stand back and say ‘yup that’s a good one.’ “
Website:
http://www.andreweccles.com/
Interview:
http://photosecrets.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/round-up-from-call-with-photographer-andrew-eccles/
Gallery:
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=79931&which=&aid=425884147&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com
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