Actress, writer, director, Sarah Wayne Callies is best known for starring in multiple hit television series The Walking Dead, Prison Break and Colony.
Sarah & myself collaborated on a portrait photoshoot at the Los Angeles studio for a new project entitled Selah. The project drawing inspiration from the Old Master painters like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Titian and Ribera. I have attempted to masterfully recreate the light, atmosphere and tones of classical portrait paintings.
So much of the portraiture commissioned in the press and print industry is reluctant to take risks. I want to challenge that safety and introduce moments of spontaneity and awkwardness. Too often portraits of people, famous or even notorious, are aggrandising and sycophantic. I want to strip back the artifice and enforce strangeness and quietness in its place.
The Selah collection will be exhibited in 2024, several years in the making. Sarah’s portrait will stand along side Dame Judi Dench, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jared Harris and many other astonishing performers.
Actress, writer, director, Sarah Wayne Callies is best known for starring in multiple hit television series The Walking Dead, Prison Break and Colony. (Rory Lewis Photographer 2022)