Jef Harris

NIN – 20 Ghosts III

// April 11th, 2008 // Comments Off // News, music

With the release of the new NIN CD(s) comes the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival. You can read/hear about the announcement here. I’m sure I was one of the first million to buy the new CD online, (only $5!), and it’s quite a collection. So when I heard about the open call for videos, well, I just jumped on that!
Together with Nina McEvoy and Raquel Nevado we set out to make something powerful, something that could breath life into the music. Also, keep it simple was also the goal. So with Nina and Raquel laying naked on my lighting table with pieces of machinery between them, well, what could be more effective!
In order to keep the video as with the realm of copyrights as possible, the original footage is helped along with various film clips from 1897 – 1902.
Full video can be viewed HERE. And feel free to comment or rate it.

Montrix – A crush

// November 13th, 2007 // View Comments // Features

Posting picture set is a treat, for sure, for me and I’m sure you the viewer. I often hold sets back so I can tell the story about the people involved. Get a little background going on what made the pictures turn out the way they did.
I originally didn’t plan to write one of my little stories for this shoot. All my shoots have stories, in one way or another. This time I wanted to let the pictures speak for themselves. Then I realized that there are some pictures here that look like duplicates. Maybe I couldn’t make my mind up? That would be a fair assumption.
While photographing Pascale I think I might have developed a crush on her!. For the life of me I couldn’t sort through and eliminate the good pictures from the not so good pictures. I liked them all! So I just gave into the feelings this muse was causing in me and did what my heart told me.Featuring the amazing Pascale Filion with make-up by Catherine Legare.

The full set of pictures can be viewed here.

Behind the Scenes – Groggy

// October 30th, 2007 // View Comments // News

Another great massive set of behind the scene pictures. So grab a tea and settle in cause this is going to be fun! Out of thousands of pictures I was able to finally narrow them down to a final 70 shots! This is a great way to see what goes on behind the scenes on a large photo shoot where personalities and ego are check at the door.
The shoot was for Groggy’s 2004 catalog. I was given unprecedented access to all the goings on during the photo shoot. Over the course of two days, (and one late night), I was able to take some really amazing candid pictures.
Enjoy!
Click here to view the full set.