Fashion

My Editor Wanted Urban. I Found Chi. “Ron, we need you to think urban,” challenged my editor at FPG International, one of the leading stock photography agencies in the 1990s. “Your work is getting noticed, but now we need not only urban but a more international look.” Charlotte was far from looking like an international city. Most of my shoots were mainstream for the time: blonde, blue-eyed families having fun on the beach. The images sold well. No complaints. My editor was e

A Myrtle Beach Fourth of July

Juneteenth remembrance from a 1980s Sunday afternoon

My first big commercial shoot and everything that could go wrong

And a hurricane strength fan

The one thing nobody teaches you about portrait lighting

Sometimes we can only see in others what we’re ready to see in ourselves.

Channeling my emotions into images — the day I learned to see