Nick Fancher
Los Angeles Times
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on the meaning of God, the band’s worst album and the vice he misses most
I was assigned to make a portrait Flea, for the Los Angeles Times, to promote his new podcast, This Little Light. I’d recently visited the Redwood forest and had been thinking a lot about tree rings, specifically within the context of our growth as humans, and wanted to capture his profile in three rings. Because the full color spectrum is born out of red, green, and blue light, these were the colors I used. To execute this technique I made an in-camera multiple exposure, composed of red, green, and blue-gelled lights. My camera makes it easy to compose multiple exposures, as it overlays the each layer on the viewfinder. I began with green as the center color to represent his youngest self, then moving to red (as in the Chili Peppers), then blue, which is a color associated with wisdom and peace.
Los Angeles Times
