Kevin Von Qualen » thoughts http://blog.kevinvonqualen.com Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:04:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 BIOGRAPHY: Photographing author Rory Noland in Chicago, Illinois. http://blog.kevinvonqualen.com/2011/11/05/biography-photographing-author-rory-noland-in-chicago-illinois/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biography-photographing-author-rory-noland-in-chicago-illinois http://blog.kevinvonqualen.com/2011/11/05/biography-photographing-author-rory-noland-in-chicago-illinois/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:23:17 +0000 kevinvonqualen http://blog.kevinvonqualen.com/?p=1147 I want to share just one photograph from my time with Rory Noland.  We spent the day producing the promotional images for his book, Worship on Earth as it is in Heaven.  While you can find more images on Rory’s blog, his Twitter, in Worship Leader Magazine, and his bios all over the web, I want to share the dialogue behind this one photograph.

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Kevin:  Rory, look at your wife and smile.

Rory:  Oh, that’s easy.

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Biography sessions take place in homes and places of meaning.  When place and story is injected into a photograph, the value of that image rises beyond just what a person looks like.  My one regret for my time with author/speaker Francis Chan was that that although we have great portraits in Neue Magazine, we were far from his California home in Pittsburgh and the setting was not a part of HIS story.

Those are Rory’s books, that is Rory’s sofa, and Rory is looking and smiling directly at his wife.  That is a photograph with meaning.

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