In early 2011 I approached my good friend and fellow photographer Denis Duquette to see if I could do some behind-the-scenes and documentary work on one of his upcoming fashion or portrait sessions. I was in desperate need of a personal project to both motivate and inspire me.

Denis quickly mentioned that he had something in the works, with details to come later. The project, a collaboration with Moncton portrait and wedding photographer Aleksandr (Sasha) Onyshchenko, turned out to be what was eventually called The Marathon Shoot. During a single day in April 2011, Denis and Sasha photographed a combined 27 models, using unique concepts for each, over a period of 18 hours.

My role, as documentary photographer, was to gather behind-the-scenes and candid images throughout the Marathon Shoot, including the set-up the night before. My stills would be combined with video, and Sasha's and Denis' final images, to compile a fairly broad, multimedia portfolio that would both document their individual skills as portrait photographers as well as their ability to conceive, plan and undertake such a large effort.

Assignment: Documentary
Client: Personal, Aleksandr Onyshchenko, Denis Duquette

Image Gallery & Further Info

The complete set of documentary photographs from the Marathon Shoot are available for viewing in two separate galleries at my Zenfolio site. The first gallery contains images from the "Marathon Shoot - Set-up" and the second gallery contains images from the "Marathon Shoot - The Big Day".

A little more information on my involvement with the Marathon Shoot can be found in this post from my blog.

A short behind-the-scenes video from the Marathon Shoot can be viewed in another one of one of my blog posts.

Sasha's prologue to the shoot can be found on his blog while Denis presents his introduction to it here.