I tell you, I’m having such a great experience working with couples recently. This time it’s James and Drew from North Carolina who agreed to pose for some urbex work in the Motor City.
I think they had kinda tinkered with urban ruins before, but Detroit was full immersion!
Most of my previous duo models have been complete strangers and yet they created amazing bonds that projected soothing familiarity.
Drew and James are a true couple who live together, so there was no improvisation of their affection and comfort. It truly reflected in the effortless interactions with each other.
They seemed to enjoy the various locations we tried on this shoot. We were even fortunate enough to try a new church location that I had been scouting for years and finally was open.
The image above is from the main congregation area of that church.
I’ve noticed how often I’ve used churches over the past few years. The awareness of so many of these beautiful religious structures left to rot is troubling. Even the previous images were taken in churches.
Nevertheless, they provide lots of symbolism and unique options. And luckily these guys were not nervous to pose in them.
Of course, we still used lots of great industrial backdrops that forms Detroits history.
With these places, we were fortunate to get some amazing graffiti’d backgrounds that blurred into a panoply of color. It was beautiful against their skin.
These two were a wonderful. So relaxed and at ease with most everything on the shoot.
And the pics we produced were excellent. I look forward to another opportunity to drag them to more fantastic locations!
Drew can be found on IG @strgdrew and
James can be found on IG @_23james97_