Dan Epstein Photography

A High School Class 50th Reunion

The Hasbrouck Height, NJ high school class of 1970 had it’s reunion two years late because of the pandemic. As an alumnus, I couldn’t not make portraits of these people. It’s a small part of an on-going project wherein I set up a photographic background outdoors with no ancillary lighting, and invite people to pose for a very quick portrait. The challenge is to find a split second in that narrow window of time in which they drop all pretense, and reveal an honest piece of themselves, which, I guess, is the goal of all of my personal portrait work.