Private Diary

*Private Diary* documents photographer Pedro Usabiaga working with a variety of amateur models. The audience sees how the relationships between the photographer and the subjects change during their time together, as well as how the individual photographs begin to take shape. Pedro Usabiaga is a well-established Basque photographer whose chief concerns are figurative photography and whose passion is photographing the Spanish male. In this hour-long conversation with the artist, we are given entry into the process of selecting models (none of the models he uses for this book, to be titled *Private Diary*, are professional, but instead are randomly chosen as Usabiaga observes athletes in action) and then allowed to follow Usabiaga and his crew as they photograph these men in natural settings and natural light.