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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

  • Oak Hill Portraits

    These portraits are for Jonah Raskin’s book about his experiences on Sonoma County farms over the past year. He spent most of his time at Oak Hill Farm and wanted some portraits of the people behind the fresh organic food that he fell in love with. I arrived at the farm at 7 am with…

  • Cabaret on The Bay 2008 – sneak peek in black and white

    When I moved to California in 2001, I learned about the concept of ‘community’ with these people. That concept has shaped my life ever since, so it is only fitting that I now apply my theme of documenting communities to my own community. So, welcome to my community. My community of characters, who I met…

  • Deborah turns 90

    To celebrate Deborah’s 90th Birthday… 99% of her family members turned up for her party in Oakland, some traveling as far as NY. I arrived at the end of their festivities to take portraits and it was fun to see everyone so happy and throughly enjoying each other. But one of my highlights was from…

  • Don’t Leave Home Without It….

    Almost every time I leave my house, I ask myself, “Should I bring my camera?” Because none of my cameras fit easily into my pocket, so I debate if the outing is really worth lugging around such a big clunky piece of equipment, especially now that my camera of choice to lug is my Rollei…

  • learning to watermark

    For some reason, I was not really into the idea of watermarking my images. I am not sure why, maybe I didn’t want to take away from the photo or maybe I didn’t want to imply that I did not trust people to use my images without giving me credit… but in the last couple…

  • still learning….always learning

    After using medium format all summer…..where the camera is so slow and therefore each photograph is so slow and at every shoot I take an average of 3-5 frames of each person……I forgot how to use 35 mm and I forgot how when you photograph a 6 year old, there is no slow…..but photographing Hannah…

  • 486 Bomb Group

    Perfect timing….my family decides to come over in the middle of the end of term two. So all the papers and projects that are due have to be put on hold as we go to Sudbury, England for my Grandfather’s WWII reunion for the 486th Bomb Group. No stress. Because many of the men are…

  • avedon

    (click image to enlarge) For the visual style assessment Matteo Borzone and I chose Richard Avedon and particularly his work from In the American West. “I’ve worked out of a series of no’s. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no’s force me…