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Max Taylor. Los Angeles, CA. Garage studio 2024.
Photographed my 15 year old nephew’s first professional photos. A lead in his high school drama club and has stage presence like rents due. Taylor 3.0 is in beta…
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Max Lowe @max.lowe
Documentarian and dear friend.
Garage Studio. Los Angeles.2025.
05 Nov 2026
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Chicago, Illinois. 2025.
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05 Oct 2026
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01 Oct 2026
Montauk 2007.
Random pocket film scenes 🎞️
30 Sep 2026
Thank you to everyone who has followed along with this year’s self-portrait series.
I return to doing this once a year to undo some of what professional photography can do to you - to strip away the brief, the approval, the budget, the taste level, the need to be useful. It is a way of reminding myself that photography was never meant to become obedient.
The ideas begin everywhere except where they are supposed to. A news story. A favored photo someone else took. A film. A body on a street corner. Something half seen on a nature trail. A strange gesture. A piece of light. I take those fragments seriously, but never literally. Influence is only dangerous when it becomes imitation, unless self reported as a tribute/homage. The real work begins when a reference is forced through memory, instinct, failure, taste, and lived experience until it comes out altered enough to belong to you.
I’ve always admired photographers who imposed a complete world onto what stood in front of them. Penn could make an object feel ceremonial. Avedon could make a person feel almost brutally present. Lindbergh understood that beauty became more interesting once you stopped trying to control it.
In these pictures, the subject is often myself, or my wife, but the body is almost incidental. What I am really photographing is the collision between an idea and whatever remains after I stop trying to make it respectable.
I try to keep the money, planning, and editing minimal. The garage is small and contained. Lighting is cheap and creative. Too much preparation can kill the thing you were trying to find. I would rather let an idea become slightly unruly and follow it until it starts taking me somewhere I did not plan to go. Even if the result is unconstrained.
Every image is only a checkpoint. No idea is ever finished. It can always be pushed further, made stranger, reduced, destroyed, rebuilt and finally requestioned. Just getting lost in there.
That is probably why I keep returning to this once a year.
Not to prove I have a style.
To make sure I have not become trapped inside one.
Thank you for watching it unfold.
#GarageSelfPortraits2026
08 Sep 2026
Garage Self Portrait 8 of 8.
Los Angeles,CA. 2026.
Cryptic.
#SelfPortrait2026
07 Sep 2026
Self Portrait 7 of 8.
Los Angeles, CA. Garage 2026.
Like countless photographers, a nod to Richard Avedon, - “In the American West”, to honor one of the arguably greatest portrait books ever made. A garage homage that doesn’t pretend to come close. With no soft north light in my garage, did my best to replicate in a very small and constrained/crammed space.
I grew up a few blocks from Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, which commissioned and exhibited the project. Seeing those portraits during school field trips and after school programs was my first encounter with the incredible body of work. Once meeting Avedon himself at that very museum. Only to be forgotten and revisited later in early adulthood.
One day I’d love to use the correct lighting set up to skim the surface even closer.
Many years ago, I journeyed through every state on my motorcycle, sleeping on a pad beneath the stars through many seasons. Whenever I think back on the strangers I encountered each day along the road, I think of this book.
#GarageSelfPortait
06 Sep 2026
Self portrait 6.7 of 8.
Los Angeles, CA. Garage 2026.
Fall of Rome.
#GarageSelfPortrait2026
Went alittle feral with color this year - putting it back on a leash for the final two .
04 Sep 2026
Self Portrait 6.5 of 8.
Los Angeles, CA. Garage 2026.
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02 Sep 2026
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