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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

Category: Black and White

  • Expect the Unexpected….

    This is an example of the kind of unexpectedness to expect from the Rollei, which I talked about in the last entry. Not sure what happened, but there is not much photoshop can do for this… so hopefully you like large alien blobs across the only three photos I took on my Rollei of this…

  • Raising the Bar….

    I really was happy with the digital images I took at Jodi and Dan’s wedding…. and then I scanned my Rollei photos tonight… and I LOVE them. It is a combination of the way people look at the camera and the ridiculously amazing quality of film. For Jodi and Dan’s wedding I took more Rollei…

  • Making Men in Hairnets Look Good….

    My most wonderful friend Claudia, who was a classmate of mine at the London College of Communication last year, was getting married in June… and she wanted me to come back to London for her wedding. So as a way to get me there, she asked me to photograph her wedding. At first I said,…

  • Before and After….

    I am in the middle of a massive photo-edit. Maybe my biggest yet, and I find that I am having trouble focusing, because I want to see it all right away, but life is interrupting and my attention span is scattered, so I keep jumping around. But so far, here are my two most favorite…

  • Please Play With Your Food….

    Meet Willie and Jackie… and the pig who sacrificed his body and soul for Claudia and Leigh’s wedding meal. At least, thanks to Willie and Jackie, this dear swine will not be forgotten too soon. ps: congrats to Willie and Jackie, on their wedding this month, I am sad to miss it.

  • Just fun to look at…

    These photos were taken with my Rolleiflex during our photographer’s photo shoot the other week. Black and white medium format wins again on most of the shots… except this one. I think I prefer the color.

  • Fun Idea for a Bachelorette Party (pass it on)

    This is Gina. She was one of my first friends when I moved to SF and she is getting married in August. She currently lives in NY, but for her bachelorette party she decided to come Sonoma for a wine country weekend. Gina is one of the most positive and full of life people I…

  • A match.com success story and why I love weddings…

    Jennifer and Steve met 5 months ago on match.com and last weekend I got to photograph their wedding story. I was a little nervous, because it had been over a year since I photographed a complete wedding, do to my year-off for grad school, but this wedding was the perfect reintroduction. Everyone was so happy,…

  • Just a typical Thursday with good friends…

    Meet Rebecca and Kevin. They are my friends, in fact, they were the first two friends I made when I moved to California in 2001. One reason I like them is because when I say, “Let’s do a photo shoot,” they say, “OK, we’ll wear these hats.” And then we went to the thrift store….…

  • Worth the Wait….

    Just wanted to add the Rollei photos from my baby shoot last week…. film is expensive, the camera is slow, the negatives have to be processed, scanned, de-dusted…. meaning the whole process is much more expensive and labor intensive…. but I love it!