Tufts has a tradition called the illumination ceremony. Everyone gets an unlit candle, one chosen person lights theirs and touches candles with another person, and that person passes the flame on until everyone’s candle is lit. There are two illumination ceremonies every year: one in the fall to welcome new students, and one in the spring…
Arkadiy and I met on Craigslist — he’d done some modeling in Russia and wanted to get some headshots and model in the US, and I wanted to practice three-point lighting, so we teamed up to take these pictures.
Last semester had some great performances and I got the chance to photograph a ton of them! Here are some photos from the fall show by Sarabande, a modern / jazz / ballet fusion dance troupe.
There were a couple of prop cigarettes left over from production design on “Better Off,” so I smoked ’em, messed around with a desk lamp, sand took some photos. They are not as nasty as real cigarettes, but give you that same sensation of inhaling a burning plant that I kind of hate. You can…