“I like weird,” she says to me as I stand with arms crossed looking down at her keyboard. We had already shot Keisha playing the keyboard and walking around her keyboard but we needed a fresh, non-cliche take to these music-themed portraits. Dealing with a composer, I felt the need to play with the composition as much as a musician might play around with a melody.
“What if I get down on the floor, UNDER it?” she asked. That was our ticket, our new perspective. Placing her on the ground, and later her keyboard, would bring a sense of child-like wonder and play (and perhaps a more abstract aesthetic), something that I really sensed from Keisha the short amount of time I’d known her. We took some formal standing poses for the sake of it but the real winners were always the ones that involved play.
