I won a “Concept Shot of the Day” award on Model Mayhem (a networking website for models and photographers). This was the second time I’ve won; the first time was last November. The theme this time was “hair”. I was a bit surprised, because there were some other really good entries that day. Here is the photo that won:

     Yes. That is actually his hair.

    Here is the story. I had worked with this model several times before. His name is Kince. He had been growing his hair progressively longer over the course of a couple of years. I asked him if he ever decided to cut it short, to please let me know. He is a dancer, and got sick of tying it up and pinning it back all the time, so he did decide to cut it off, and he did call me. I only had a few days to set it up.

     I found a stylist to work with. I rented a straight jacket. We sat down and cut off half Kince’s hair! Then teased out the remaining hair to look ratty. I placed clumps of his hair on the table, put a pair of scissors and a straight razor just out of reach, and asked Kince to look longingly at the scissors, as if he’d done this to himself. We tried several different looks. This was my favorite.

     After we were done, the stylist cut the rest of his hair so it all matched. Fun!