ABOUT
we had nothing to show for it. Years of it, and not a single honest picture. So I started carrying a Leica to work. The images the industry uses are always the same. Clean coveralls. Staged handshakes. Rigs that aren't even in our waters. None of the men I work beside. None of the real thing.
So I shot it myself. Black and white, because it strips out everything that isn't the man, the steel, or the light.
Here's what that means for you. I don't need a rig explained to me. I don't need a chaperone to keep me out of the way. I know where to stand and where not to, when the moment's coming and when to put the camera down. The crew trusts me because I'm one of them. That trust is the whole reason the pictures work, and it's the one thing you can't fly in.
So let's be straight about the fit. If you want the same staged shots, the handshake in front of the rig, the status quo, I'm not your man. Plenty of people do that. But if you want real photographs of your people doing the actual work, I know exactly where to be and where not to be. That's the whole job..
I'm still offshore. I still carry the camera. There's a difference, and that difference is the work..