Death Becomes Her

Personal Work
Written By Zack Arias

On a recent trip to LA for HGTV I put a call out for portrait subjects. Dani hit me up on one of my social media channels and we set up a shoot with she and her partner, Natalia. I love this new series of portraits because I show up at someone's home, typically someone I am meeting for the first time, and we hang out and make portraits. I rarely, if ever, have any idea what I'm going to be shooting when I arrive. As the old saying goes, "Photography is 1% inspiration and 99% moving furniture." That's exactly how this shoot went.
 

Zack Arias

I've been pursuing photography as a career for twenty years and it's been a hell of a trip thus far. I have risen and I have fallen a number of times and I truly feel that I have finally reached base camp. On a clear day I can see my goal. On the not so clear days I'm still climbing. Still pushing. I'm pushing myself and my subjects and my craft.

I think of myself more as a director than a photographer these days. I tend to work with subjects who aren't that comfortable in front of the camera and I direct them from start to finish. 

I've traveled through 49 of the 50 states and five of the seven continents. From a boardroom in New York, to a film set in Los Angeles, to a farm in Texas, to the streets of Hong Kong to the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco, I pursue photography with everything I have. Hire me for your next project and you'll get everything I have to give.

(North Dakota is the last state I need to reach)

http://www.zackarias.com
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