About Face

[quote style=”boxed”]He is hyperkinetic, a raconteur. He’s a loner with a whole lot of friends. He’s a terrific portrait photographer. I’ve watched a passel of photographers work. Most are prone to posing while they work, striking an attitude at the very moment they want their subjects to relax, be natural. Reeves doesn’t go in for posing. He’s a natural. There’s no self-conscious attitude in his work. As he shoots, he bounds, shifts, bobs, weaves like a club fighter. He’s always on the move seeking a moment of stillness, seizing it in these big faces, faces all allowed to be boldly themselves. He talks and laughs and talks as he works, and yet there is such silence in these big faces. It is the same stillness that lies between notes, the same silence that gives music its resonance. Perhaps that’s how to think of John Reeves and these portraits. Like a great tenor man, like Ben Webster or Sonny Stitt, he can ripple all over the scales but what he really has is the casual sureness to hit the big whole note and hold it, and hold it, and let the silences gather and the stillnesses seep in.” —Barry Callaghan[/quote]

[quote style=”boxed”]A tremendous book.” —Regina Leader Post[/quote]

[quote style=”boxed”]More than just another collection of pictures.” —Toronto Star[/quote]