18/09/2025
• One of the coolest assignments I’ve ever shot.
My friend Marcus Chacona calls and asks, “How do you feel about heights?” I said, “Depends on how cool or unique the subject is.”
The moment he told me what was going on—and the access I’d have—I was already racing to the church.
Imagine standing next to and documenting Michelangelo as he paints the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch... but honestly? Not by much.
I was 75 feet in the air on a scaffold, watching an artist restore sacred icons in a cavernous, echoing space. It felt divine. Everything had an aura. The colors glowed.
What a subject to photograph.
Serbian artist Dragomir Djekic works atop 75’ of scaffolding, restoring the Byzantine iconography, in the dome of the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Annapolis, Friday, September 17, 2021.
