Pascal Paradis, Avocats sans frontières

Pascal Paradis, head of Lawyers Without Borders Canada, poses in is office in Quebec City February 23, 2011. Paradis and his organization are fighting over the name of his organization with a US group that has the same name. Full story on the Globe and Mail site.

I wanted to go out of my comfort zone for this portrait. I realized that I used a little but too often my umbrellas to soften the light. So hard light it would be for this one.

I used a gridded flash aimed at the world map to create the vignette around it. I then gridded a second flash toward the subject face, creating a dramatic light that went well with the story.