Khryz (Chris) Henry is a musician who’s unique worship music drawn influence from a sub-genre of neo-gospel. He is getting ready to release his first album. We had the shoot planned and everything was confirmed the night before. We met up, drove to the warehouse and as it’s said, “Something wasn’t right.” As we pulled in there was someone painting the street facade...strange, but maybe they just want a pretty, abandoned, run down warehouse. As we pulled up to the end of the side we see the plywood over the door that just a week ago was wide open. Then the “What to do now?” began to set in. After a while of thinking, talking, several phone calls to find out if anyone knew of another place and a lot of looking around, we found a roll up door that we could squeeze through. To everyone’s relief, we were able to get the shoot done. I was at the point of calling the whole thing off so we wouldn’t sacrifice quality for something thrown together out of desperation at the last minute. We had a blast during the shoot and came away with some what we intended to get.
The graffiti in this place was amazing. It was great for a background. I could spend days in this place just photographing the artwork alone. The floor littered with the spent spray paint cans added so much to the images.
I love the framing the two foreground pipe gave and the way he was able to pose with the others. The paint spatter on them added just the right blending with the rest of the image, while the lack of it on the others helped him stand out since he and those three post are about he only things in the image without paint.
I just love this silhouette against that graffitied wall. I debated was it better to have him in focus or the wall. I’m still not sure, but this one edges out.
I have no idea what this room was used for, but I love it. The doorways wouldn’t allow for anything very big through them. Those concrete supports have great shapes from the wear on them. It also made an action shot like this look cool. I love the flying braids and swept back arms. He was such a sport to accomplish this shot.
He mentioned doing a shot with his braids flying back like this. I saw the word “SNAP” and that arrow and there couldn’t have been a better place to do this shot.
