Blair Bunting

By some strange turn of fate, I found myself sitting on a camera case, face-to-face with a 500-pound tiger from less than a foot away.

The making of The Tiger Project was nearly a year-long process.

There is a certain responsibility that rests on the shoulders of a photographer when asked to capture another artist’s greatest work.

I’m writing this piece today about a photo shoot that happened nearly a year ago, but for a handful of reasons, it never got the moment it deserved.

Winning the Communication Arts Photography Annual is never a solo achievement.

My Spacesuit began getting warmer as my pilot and I descended toward the Earth in our U2 spyplane.

It was not on the flight, but rather the day before, as I was sitting in a pressure chamber testing my spacesuit one last time, that I realized how absolute my reliance on it would be.

Some advertising photographers equate the degree of stress during a high-profile shoot as a metric of their skill as a photographer: If you’re stressed, then perhaps you were unprepared or lacked knowledge, they might say.

Being a commercial photographer in Arizona, getting a call to photograph a baseball player at spring training is not a what-if but rather an inevitability.

Every so often, a photo shoot comes along, and in the middle of it, you find yourself taking a step back and mentally trying to reckon with the idea that you should be paying just to be there.