EDITOR: Keith Phillips
ART DIRECTOR: Sharri Wolfgang
SUBJECT: Kara Robinson
The assignment was to create a portrait of Kara Robinson. Ms. Robinson's story is very inspirational. When she was 15 years old, Kara was abducted by a serial killer, stuffed into a plastic storage container, and transported to the abductor's apartment. There she was sexually assaulted and held for 17 hours. Ms. Robinson managed to escape her abductor when he fell asleep, then gave authorities details which led them to him (he eventually committed suicide as police closed in). The serial killer had already raped and murdered three other young women.
In August of this year, Ms. Robsinson, now 23, graduated from the SC Criminal Justice Academy and is a sheriff's deputy with the Richland County Sheriff's Department. She is a resource officer at a local high school. It was an honor to meet and work with Kara. She refuses to be called a victim. Her determination and courage are inspiring.
Here is the magazine's selection. It was lit with a large Chimera. The sun was diffused by a Matthews 12' x 12' overhead frame (which blew over right before the shoot). I shot it with a Canon 5dII with a 24-70 f/2.8 lens.
And, as usual, I had to shoot a little film too. The portrait was lit with a 22" beauty dish with a grid and a medium Chimera for fill. Two 24" x 36" Matthews flags helped control the light from the beauty dish. The background was gray seamless paper. I shot this with a Hasselblad 503 with a 150mm lens with extension tube. As you can see, the film was Kodak Ektar 100.
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