Category: Portraits
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New Portraits at MIT
I love the challenge of creating portraits of a new person in just a few minutes. It’s a fascinating combination of making the subject feel comfortable in a few quick seconds and then helping them pose and look their best in as many different poses as I can fit in the allotted time. I always…
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Maine Author Portraits
Yesterday, I spent the morning with local author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in the grasslands of Kennebunk Plains. I had never been there before but a friend had recently mentioned it as a unique habitat in Maine and it resembles the grasslands of Nantucket and Oklahoma, where Chelsea grew up, so we thought it would be a…
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Chris German for Quanta
I was a geology major at Tufts so I always love to be asked to do stories on scientists and once in a blue moon I get asked to photograph a geologist. Quanta reached out about making portraits of marine geochemist Chris German at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and I jumped at the opportunity. This…
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David Bidler Portraits
I first met David Bidler while filming and photographing a project for Territory Run Co. on local teacher/musician/runner/writer Ian Ramsey. Ian belonged to David’s gym, The Distance Project in Freeport, so we filmed a few scenes there and then earlier this spring David reached back out for some portraits and we reconnected. We worked hard…
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Headshots for Friends!
Two creative friends, Dylan Ladds and Noah Fishman, were interested in new headshots so we went out to Westbrook for a morning of homemade lattes and goofy lighting setups. This was my practice run between paternity leave and “work” and I was so thankful for the opportunity to shake off the sleep deprivation cobwebs. The…
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Five Years of MIT Fellowship Portraits
I was going through some recent archives as I update my portfolio website and was struck by the mountains of portraits I’ve taken at MIT over the years. Most of this work has been for the MIT News website but I’ve also done some special projects for different departments. For the past five years, I’ve…
Ian MacLellan 