“Returning the Gaze” is a response to the use of women as eye candy throughout the history of art. The canon of great master painters came to be known in contemporary society as the “male gazers.” The camera has long been associated with its objectivity. In these photographs it is the subjective eye of the person behind the camera that interests me. It is the interaction of being looked at and the act of looking back, or returning the gaze that can be considered to be the one moment of truth in the act of photography. I used a view camera for the black-and-white shots and my Hasselblad for the color shots. I used beautiful natural light, some fill light and a large reflector. I have a film scanner that was by far the best purchase I've ever made. It's a Heidelberg Linoscan 1400. So I scan the negatives and then manipulate the image in Photoshop.