Gigawhat Portrait Shoot - Behind the Scenes - Utah Photographer

In high school I spent a lot of time on Wooster Collective.



Graffiti is great inspiration. I love the imagination it requires. Great graffiti is all about making art where you find it, the most successful work comes of as obvious. Of course there should be a face right there, how did I not see that before?

A bike that paints rainbows? Sign me up.



This project was directly inspired by the work that the French photographer, JR creates.

JR calls is work (translated) "photograffiti."

Recently he's been working with TED on his Women are Heros project.





Before this, I had never wheat pasted anything. Some research on Reddit and Stencil Revolution provided me with the information I needed.

In Utah, Kinko's charges $0.75 per square foot for black & white prints. A 3 x 4.5 foot print is about $13. The quality isn't pro, but that's not what this is about.





I really hate the majority of band photos I see.

Photography for bands should be striking. It should pique curiosity and make you sit up. You should want to know more about the band pictured after you see photos of them.

Conceptually this was supposed to be a Portrait within a Portrait The idea of having two Martins, one in front of me, and one on the wall, interested me. Size is interesting too. My sneering face has never been 9 feet tall. Martin and Landon can say that they have had that experience.





The process of wheat pasting was fairly easy. Martin and I both made about half a buckets worth, which translated to just enough. We had a hard time deciding where to paste the portraits because they were so big. Eventually we landed on a nice, smooth surface to work on.

After that it was wax on, wax off.





If you're interested in seeing the final result, here is the location. Trace it back to where you're at.



Thanks to Martin Bradshaw and Landon Young of Gigawhat.

Extra special shout out to Alex Pow for filming our adventure and Lynn Wiberg for being around to make our team look cooler.