Images of alarming beauty by fine art photographer Reidar Schopp
Thorns and roses Into the box with Reidar Schopp by Bondo Wyszpolski What leads someone into taking up photography may be a course or two in high school and a few more in college, and then perhaps their portfolio lands them a job or an assignment for a local newspaper or magazine. For Reidar Schopp, however, it was a matter of forced child labor. Well, only in the sense that by the age of eight he was assisting his mother, a freelancer for publications like the San Pedro News-Pilot. She also covered weddings and other meet-and-greets. It was Reidar’s task to haul around the battery pack for her strobe, “and it kept me tethered to her so I couldn’t run away or anything.” He dutifully trailed along behind her, later entrusted with loading her film holders with 4×5 film. “Eventually I became the second shooter,” he adds. “Near the end of her career I was the primary shooter and she was my secondary shooter.” Reidar Schopp. Photo by Bondo WyszpolskiBut when Reidar was in high school and wondering whether to pursue a career in the arts, his mother gave him some sound advice which many of us, to our detriment, would have ignored. “And her advice was, if you want to live on rice and…
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