This is the last of my series of three fiction/fantasy pictures I am posting on Instagram Actually it was the first one I ever made. Shot about three years ago on my rooftop in New York as part of a Magnum Nudes portfolio originally sold at a Christies art auction in Paris. It is still the one picture that is key to this project. This series won’t ever be a book. I cannot make enough like this to fill a book. Too hard to do. So I’m just hoping i can get maybe five or six. One thing I’ve learned is that not everything makes a book. A book is not just a bunch of good pictures from a place. At least not anymore. Books should be books. They should have their own visual literacy. There are some amazing new books out there and a whole lot more that simply are collections, yet not books on the highest order. Same as with films. Lots get made somehow, yet we all must look long and hard for the really good ones. So the same truth applies to photo books. My fiction portfolio may end soon or take on a new life. I will find out this year. All part of the adventure of exploration. All part of sticking your neck out. All part of risk taking. It would be easy for me to shoot “popular” pictures. I see what people “like”. I know how to do it. Yet working the edge is the only way to grow and working the edge is the only way to really be alive. #newyork#magnumnudes #nudedude