David Brandon Geeting (aka DBG) is a New York City-based photographer and artist known for his playful still life images and more recently, his portraits. I love the way he has fun with light & color on photos like this one of Jason Stewart or how he blends still life & portraiture with these pics of Oneohtrix Point Never. David photographed Bernie Sanders for TIME Magazine back in 2019. He’s published four photos books in his career so far and he’s working on a brand new one, titled The Marble, since 2020. Lucky for us, David is here to tell us what he’s been into.
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Sometimes I don’t know what I’m supposed to be looking at in peoples’ photos cuz the shit is so far away. We wanna see those juicy details!! The first time I put a long lens on my camera I realized you don’t have to do very much or go very far to make the world look interesting. It’s like when you do shrooms and every little detail in your field of vision is its own universe. The 100mm is the perfect tool to explore those little universes. I know, I know, you could just use a 35mm lens and move closer to what you’re photographing. But it doesn’t look the same – the 100mm flattens space in a way that makes life look weird as hell. Believe me, that .5x button on the iPhone camera is burned into my muscle memory too, but next time, try reaching for the 2x – it’s a whole new world over there.