Rory Lewis Studio

Chauncey Alan: A Lean and Hungry Look

October 22, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles

A return sitting at the Downtown Los Angeles studio, and the case for every actor owning a villain.

Chauncey Alan has played Caesar. This time he came back to the Los Angeles studio wanting to be Cassius.

Not literally, but the brief was close. Chauncey needed a villainous headshot for his castings: one image that tells a casting director, in the half-second a thumbnail gets, that he can be trusted with the man nobody should trust. Shakespeare gave Caesar the line that describes exactly what we were after: “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

Devin McElvogue: A Headshot in Copper and Grey

October 15, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles

Some faces arrive at the studio already halfway to a painting. Devin McElvogue walked into the Downtown Los Angeles studio with a head of tight copper curls, a red beard, and a pair of hazel eyes that, under the right light, turn almost amber. A gift for a portrait photographer, but also a responsibility: when a sitter’s colouring is this distinctive, the headshot has to render it truthfully. Casting directors are not booking an idea of a redhead. They are booking Devin.

Thirty-minute update headshots — New York, one day only

September 29, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Dates & Locations, Corporate Headshots, New York

One day of thirty-minute update headshots in Midtown Manhattan — two looks, one image fully retouched, and the only date I am offering them in New York this year.

Clancy Brown at the Table

September 28, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Celebrity Portraits, Los Angeles, New York, Portraits, Portfolio 2026

Last week Clancy Brown came to the Downtown Los Angeles studio, and I finally had the chance to build a picture I have been carrying around in my head for some time: a man at a table, with bread and wine and fruit in front of him, lit the way the Old Masters lit their suppers.

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Thirty-minute headshot update sessions — one day only, Friday 11 September 2026

August 31, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Corporate Headshots, Dates & Locations

On Friday 11 September 2026 I am opening the Downtown Los Angeles studio for a single day of thirty-minute headshot update sessions. Each one gives you two looks and one retouched image, and it is the only date this year I will offer them.

Actor Headshots in New York: A Sitting with Michael DelaFlor

August 07, 2026 in Actors Headshots, New York

There is a particular kind of face the camera waits for. Not the arranged one, not the face that performs readiness the moment a lens appears, but the one that carries a thought behind the eyes and lets you watch it move. Michael DelaFlor brought exactly that into my New York studio, and it made the work a pleasure.

Francis Price at the Downtown LA Studio

June 25, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Portfolio 2026, Los Angeles

The stage actor's face, and what a camera asks of it

There is a particular ease to photographing an actor who has spent real time on a stage. The instrument is already tuned. Francis Price came to the Main Street studio with exactly that — a classically trained presence that knows how to hold stillness without going dead behind the eyes, which is the whole quiet art of a good headshot.

Los Angeles Actors Headshots Brian Kolb

June 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, Actors Headshots, Portfolio 2026

There's a particular kind of session that arrives when an actor steps back into the room after time away. The face is the same. The man behind it isn't — and the work, if it's any good, has to hold both.

Brian Kolb came to the Main Street studio to mark exactly that: a return to acting after a break, and the new narrative that comes with it. The brief was not one look, but range — the proof a casting director needs that a man can be cast in more than a single drawer. So we built six, and we built them to argue with each other.

New Work, and a Few Doors Open in Los Angeles

June 09, 2026 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Dates, Actors Headshots, Dates & Locations

There is a particular satisfaction in taking down a body of work you have looked at for too long and replacing it with something better. I have just done exactly that. The headshot portfolio has been rebuilt from the ground up — newer sittings, harder edits, a great deal that didn't make the cut. What's left is, I think, the strongest the studio has put out.