Gil was a bartender in San Antonio when I first met him. I don’t really remember how we met but I photographed him for a jewelry ad and told him that he ever had any ideas to give me a call day or night. And he took me up on that offer.
Late one Friday night (around 10pm I think) my phone rang and it was Gil. He had come into Austin with a friend to do some partying downtown. He said he had just come up with a great idea for photos and wanted to know if I could come over to their hotel room. I packed my gear and headed over.
He had asked the hotel’s bartender for their empty bottles of liquor and wanted to do the whole ‘rock star trashes hotel room’ type of thing. I got out my flash – he got out his handcuffs and we started shooting. We shot everything in less than an hour. The results are pretty tame but Gil’s sultry look and tight build really notched up the appeal. As with my all of my early shoots where I was known as AustinLens – it was a fascinating learning experience. Shortly after Gil moved to California where he is now an actor.