I feel like returning the favor a little so I wrote about the shoot with Edric over here. Here are snippets for those who want it quick, quick, quick.

I like how Edric’s photos have that dreamy film quality in them. Here, I feel the gentleness of age, as if an entire story has been told before the camera’s click. I fiddled around with some of his lens filters, which not a lot of photographers use anymore. It’s true then— we’re all storytellers in a way. I color mine with words and punctuation. Edric tells his stories with filters and light.

Perhaps Edric’s best quality as a photographer/storyteller is that he lets his characters come alive on their own. I hardly felt like I was posing. We’d talk and he’d snap a picture mid-sentence. He managed to catch the minutest mannerisms, the shadow of a smirk, or the sheepish smile before a yawn. I felt at ease. Nothing felt contrived because all it was, truly, was an honest conversation.

(Link to the photo set here.)