DENNIS HOPPER
A day spent in the presence of a true original. The visit unfolded across Los Angeles — from his solo exhibition at Ace Gallery, to a portrait session at the Chateau Marmont, to the quiet familiarity of his home. Meeting Dennis Hopper meant encountering someone who saw film, art, and photography from the inside out: a celebrated outsider with an incomparable range of experience, an instinctive sense of style, and a disarming generosity of spirit. These photographs are traces of that brief but unforgettable meeting.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Portraiture is an act of exchange — a brief suspension of time in which two people meet somewhere between intention and instinct. Photographing Dennis Hopper was such a moment. Over the course of a single day, moving from Ace Gallery to the Chateau Marmont and finally to his home, I witnessed a personality shaped by decades inside film, art, and photography.
Dennis carried his fame with a kind of ease: the rebel, the artist, the actor, the observer — all present at once, shifting subtly as the light, the setting, and the conversation changed. What struck me most was not his legend, but his presence: the precision of his gaze, the generosity in his manner, the spark of restlessness that made him unmistakably himself.
These portraits attempt to hold that presence — not to define him, but to reflect the clarity and complexity he offered in the moment of being seen.
Print description:
Archival Carbon and Archival Giclée Prints.
Sizes: 100 x 100 cm & 50 x 50 cm
Sizes: 100 x 140 cm & 50 x 72 cm
