Top Shelf
Each piece is captured in a rare moment where light, time, and place come together.
The Van Winkle family, laid flat. I'd seen collections like this before, but never photographed with this kind of intentionality — all six expressions of the line arranged in a wooden shelf built to hold them, the bottles side by side so you can read every label at once. Old Rip Van Winkle 10, Van Winkle 12, the Rye, Pappy 15, 20, 23. The warm, dark light of the cellar setting gave the labels their full depth.
When you lay bottles on their sides, something shifts in the composition. They become horizontal subjects in a way that standing bottles aren't — the labels read differently, the proportions change, the liquid settles to one side and catches the light in a new way. I wanted to show the full progression of the line as a single connected narrative, one family's legacy of bourbon-making running left to right across a shelf. The darker the liquid, the longer the wait.
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