George Lange Sean Juhl - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Who: Sean Juhl - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Date: 6/15/22
What: Assignment for Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Where: Pittsburgh - Heinz Hall

Sean Juhl is a 22-year-old violist just out of Julliard and the youngest member of the PSO. For his portrait, I was asked to use the symphony’s official model backdrop and a classic lighting style. Sean stepped onto the set, played his viola for a minute, and my strobe started popping. The rich, deep, solo viola Sean played was mind-blowing. Then it was time to make it my own.

I asked Sean to stab my lens with his bow. “I can’t do that!” he said. When I asked why he told me, “You have an expensive camera and I have an expensive bow!” The safety of our tools was worth the risk for a great photograph. I insisted, “STAB MY LENS!” In that moment we created a photo together that established the look and spirit of my work with the symphony.

About George Lange has worked for Duane Michals and Annie Leibovitz before establishing his own career. His work has appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Esquire, People and The New York Times, among other publications. He shot many of the iconic images from Friends, Frasier, Dawson’s Creek, and Seinfeld, as well as Sophia Loren, ads for and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 

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