Mackenzie wanted senior photos with a strong fashion influence from casual to formal. She is smart, progressive, beautiful, and kind. She’s an actor, a student, and an activist. She’s also very creative. Her ideas helped me to design a completely different kind of senior photo shoot, one that included her grandparents and a special recreation…
My studio is growing again! For the past two months, I’ve been learning wet plate collodion (tintype) photography from Gary Samson in his Manchester, NH studio. You can read more about that here: https://maundymitchell.com/a-random-act-of-kindness/ A tintype, also called a ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of black-enameled metal, which
Often the inspiration for my portraits comes from art books or online research. Sometimes it comes from a shared mood board. Tristan in an artist and an equestrian. This portrait came together from our mood board. He was drawn to this painting by Henri Latour called “Portrait of Leon Maitre” from 1886. I had been
Hanna is a junior majoring in Theatre and Musical Performance at Plymouth State University. As an actor and singer, Hanna was ready for professional headshots. Great headshots will show casting directors and colleagues that she’s serious about her work. Hanna’s goals were to have one headshot where she looks happy and casual for the “girl
It has been a busy month for the Protest Portraits. We moved the large-scale outdoor art exhibit from Holderness School to Plymouth State University, where it was installed for ten days. Next, we installed it at New Hampton School for two weeks. Teachers and professors at each school incorporated the exhibit into their curriculum. Amy
Mackenzie is a high school senior beginning the college application process. She is also an actor and she wanted a variety of headshots for auditions and programs. As part of the application, many colleges and universities now require a headshot. A professional headshot is your chance to make a great first impression. You want your headshot
Early last month, I had an art opening at Kimball Jenkins School of Art. It was “lightly attended,” so I spent a lot of the time eating cookies and talking with executive director Julianne Gadoury. I told her that I had been wanting to learn a particular historic photographic technique called wet plate collodion. This is a
I was so happy to welcome this beautiful family to the studio recently. Diana and her husband, Bobby, wanted some personal branding images for a new venture. Their daughter, Belle, needed new images for acting. The family also wanted to have some casual as well as more formal portraits, individually and together. They love their
National Juried Exhibition by Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, DC I’m happy to announce that three of my portraits from the Protest Portraits series have been selected for a juried online exhibition by the Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, DC Area (WCADC). The WCADC invited members of the National Women’s Caucus for
When Michael saw this business portrait of himself, he said “Whoah! I have a portrait of my grandfather and I look just like him here!” I love those connections. Michael is an MBA student at Dartmouth College. He’s a husband and father, an Army veteran, and a motorcycle enthusiast. He came to the studio recently