Joni Mitchell

Los Angeles
1976

One minute, Joni is lying on the street using chalk to draw the outline of her body, the next moment I’m in her studio looking at her emotionally evocative paintings. After that, she’s playing piano and introducing me to some new work. Later, we end up shooting her in her swimming pool. Joni always came with ideas and we would joust a bit until we agreed on what we wanted to do. Some were straight up photo sessions but once she drove up with a bunch of wolves and we had to set up an electrified fence.