I listened to more than my share of darkwave and industrial synth back in the day so I was more than a little stoked when the DC-based duo Technophobia reached out to me to shoot press photos for their upcoming album cycle. They left much of the creative direction up to me, inviting me to “do what I do”, which I interpreted as “whatever I’ve been experimenting with lately”. Since I’d been exploring long exposures with multi-colored LEDs and a moving subject, that’s what we started with. They told me their album title was “Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars” (a quote from Oscar Wilde), so I decided to project images of stars onto the singer, Katie Petix. For the final setup we shot in an abandoned room in the building where my studio resides, making ghostly, window-lit long exposures in the vein of Francesca Woodman.

You can pre-order their upcoming album, here. Here’s a message from the band:

100% of the proceeds raised though the PRE-ORDER of our new album "Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars" and ALL Working Order Records merch, from 10/2/2020 through 12/06/2020, will be donated to Community of Hope to support their annual gift card “Holiday Cheer Campaign” benefiting families in their housing programs. Community of Hope’s mission is to improve health and end family homelessness to make Washington, DC more equitable. In 2019, Community of Hope reached 1,227 families overcoming or threatened by homelessness and 13,835 patients. They are making a HUGE impact in our community!