We conjured up a calendar based on Hollywood movies using meat and him as the main characters. We recreated the psycho shower scene where we had ground up meat coming out of the shower head, it was hilarity.
I am convinced that that photo shoot is what sparked my true love for photography. It was one of the first memories I have felt like photography was a vice to pull friends together, to collaborate, to be goofy, crazy and just let my creative self go nuts. We were in a bubble where time stopped and we were all in a creative vortex.
This love has never faded, and recently, I was giddy with joy when I got hired to shoot the campaign for the NRA show (not guns but food). I couldn't help but smile profusely during the entire shoot, and I had a secret wish that every shoot could be like this.
I am also pretty positive that my meat calendar shoot in the 90s was what made my boyfriend at the time later be my husband. I think that him seeing me enthusiastically hurl meat across rooms and people was validating that I wasn't just a regular boring girl.
Thank you Erika Dufour for inspiring me to tell my meat story and huge thank you to Gar for starting the Gar Calendar and letting me be a part of it!
Above a shot for the National Restaurant Association.
Below: shots from the Gar Calendar shot in 1998??
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