2024 01 08

Water on car. December, 2023. Chicago. © Clayton Hauck

Part of what I’ve been photographing a lot lately has been more abstract, textured images to use as backdrops for my “Keep it 100” portrait sessions[1], where the background changes every second, cycling through various images I’ve made recently. Before doing these sessions on a regular basis, this is a moment I would've passed over. Is it a stunning image? No, but it does have a lil something going for it… and it’s fun to incorporate as one detail in a more detail-dense portrait.

It’s easy to make a good image, the hard part is figuring out what to do with it. I’m still figuring that bit out myself and likely always will be.

-Clayton

[1] inspired by artist Jeremy Cowart