raining paper

Eliot Crowley “Paper Trail” 4/28/23

This was originally shot for a house organ. The idea was the person in the photo was an accountant with paper flying all around her while she calmly leaned against the corner of the wall smiling like nothing was wrong. To make that shot, I first photographed the corner of the walls, then placed the subject in her spot. Made many captures of her expressions. Once we were satisfied with the expressions she stayed still while one sheet of paper was dropped at a time. Each sheet a new photo. Combining all those together to make the rain of paper look as though it was all happening at once.

For this version I used the corner shot and then all the sheets of paper falling. Putting them in one by one. When I first conceived of this idea for her photo, I always wanted to make this one as well.