It took a lot of thinking through, but I'm O.K. with what I'm doing. My nicknames are unprintable. Fink, for one, is critical. There's no acid dye in Ommaney's work. Bush chooses and rotates which photographers are allowed in.
Access can backfire on the candidate.
We're not trying to paint it one way or the other. These images humanize people who can seem so plastic, so rehearsed. Bradley's not that way. Bentley, however, wasn't happy with the choice. I thought it was another frame.