In 1998 I worked on the Feature Film ‘Holy Smoke’ with the director Jane Campion. It was a three month production and I was employed to do all ‘Specials’ as well as the production stills. My approach was to predominantely use Polaroid stocks-Type 55, Type 59, and 665 as well as shooting Colour transperancy Sheet Film on a 5x4 Linhof and using a Medium Format 645 for everything else. Promotional material for films in this era were sets of 35mm dupe film transperancies so I chose to shoot only formats larger than 35mm and therefore the dupe film promotional material would be of superior quality.
Kate Winslet - Pushkar
Porter ‘Old Delhi’
The last three weeks of the production were shot on location in Rajasthan firstly in Delhi and then the Holy City of Pushkar. Most of the pictures in this post are portraits I took ‘off set’. Shooting polaroid stocks and giving the print to the portrait sitter and I retaining the negative to print later in a dark room.
Here Are The Young Men…..‘Old Delhi’
Here Are The Young Men…. ‘Old Delhi’
A family who were living next to the Film Set of ‘Holy Smoke’ Old Delhi
Kate Winslet with Sam and the children of Old Delhi
The train journery lasted seven hours.
Portrait in Ajhmer
The woman of Pushkar
I shot a lot of street portraits with my Linhof Flat Bed Field Camera
On Set - Pushkar
Chandra - Pushkar
The Sadhu’s of Pushkar
Type 55 Polaroid - Print.
The Sadhu’s of Pushkar
My Last Session with Kate-Pushkar
With Jane Campion on the last day of filming
On the day of departure I went to a temple overlooking Pushkar at dawn with one of the local Sadhu’s.
