Jason Renaud and Devon Ross on capturing intimate moments of friendship – HERO

AJT: Do you keep in mind the primary time taking pictures collectively? What is your relationship like on a shoot?
DR: I believe we each like working fairly shortly. I don’t know if that’s proper to say, however we each are tremendous fast in terms of taking pictures and prefer to be executed quick. We simply met up on this canyon in LA and it simply got here actually naturally.
JR: I didn’t even do not forget that that was the primary shoot, [laughs] you needed to remind me. We simply acquired alongside tremendous tremendous properly. Sometimes on paper, you assume a collab ought to work properly visually and it doesn’t completely match, however this was instantaneous artistic chemistry. I believe we shot for a complete of 1 hour and three appears – to this present day these are amongst my favorite photographs of ours, just a few made it into the e book too.

AJT: Jason, within the e book you describe Devon as an ‘It Girl’ – what does that expression imply to you and the way do you assume Devon encapsulates this in her personal means?
JR: ‘It Girl’ is a time period that’s sort of indescribable, however it once you see it. It’s enigmatic, however there’s an vitality that pulls you in. Devon to me is simply easy – she’s cool with out making an attempt to be, and genuinely cares in regards to the artwork, music and movie she makes. Even when she’s ‘casual’, she nonetheless appears cooler than I’d ever.

AJT: How many periods, and the way a lot time went into creating this e book? How many occasions did you shoot collectively over the course of time?
DR: I truly don’t know.
JR: I believe, I’m shedding monitor too, however I need to say ten or so occasions, on covers, backstage, style-ups, and a bunch of stuff in between. It was additionally between LA and Paris, we had shot a pair occasions round Pais Fashion Week, together with Devon’s debut Louis Vuitton stroll, which was tremendous thrilling. The periods ranged in time, as we mentioned earlier we shoot quick, so it wasn’t a lot time taking pictures, however extra modifying, refining, understanding the narrative thread of the e book, together with numerous totally different environments. I needed to see Devon at totally different phases and processes of making and residing her life.