Conan O’Brien, Manhattan NY, 2003. Conan and I met in midtown Manhattan at his office to start our photo shoot. I brought him down to the street and we ran all over the neighborhood. I’m shooting him on 42nd Street, in restaurants, in lobbies of random buildings—we just ran around manhattan—he was really up for anything. He’s so tall—I mean like 8 foot 3. He’s like gigantic.We were passing the subway entrance, and I just ran down a few steps. I normally wouldn’t do this, but this is somebody I could shoot up at, and just elongate even more, and do this whole wide and low angle thing. So I shot him from below with the vortex of Manhattan skyscrapers coming up behind him. I normally wouldn’t do that with anybody, but there was something funny about making this big character even bigger. It made total sense with him.Shooting with Conan was one of my real guerrilla photography around New York kind of shoots. Like a boxer—sticking and moving—grab one here, grab one there. And I’m already on the subway step. So I was like, come on, let’s go down the subway. So we went down at the 42nd Street station, and he jumped on a car and stuck his head out the door—just before the train took off.It was fun—running around the city and through the subway with this big star—just kind of winging it. People recognized him, of course, but he didn’t care…and neither did I. It was my kind of shoot.
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