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Geoff...Photographer

Geoff Brodhead has been a member of the Chicago Tango Community since 1997 when he took a beginner course in Tango Dancing at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Despite a shaky start, he skills progressed and he became hooked on the Tango and regularly attends Milongas at Club 720 as well occasionally attending other Tango Events and workshops in the Chicago area.

Prior to discovering the Tango, Geoff's leisure time loves were aerobic sports and photography. While living in Philadelphia he was a competitive member of the famed Vesper Boat Club along Boathouse Row. Geoff finished 4th in the Intermediate Lightweight Single Scull Event and the US Rowing Championships in 1986. Shortly thereafter he was asked to pose as a model for a Calendar entitled "The Men of Boathouse Row".

The professional photographer who shot the calendar used two German Brand cameras for the shoot, a Leica and a Rolleiflex. This lead to him being bitten with the Leica Bug and he acquired two old fully manual Leica Cameras. With these cameras, he made his first foray in to black & white photographs using a neighbor's home darkroom to print his first black & white images. These first steps in to photography lacked a certain flare of a polished pro, but he nonetheless enjoyed the experience of developing his own film and prints.

In the late 80s, Geoff took a job in Cologne Germany for 13 months and used his two Leicas to document his many weekend trips in Central Europe including visits to Paris, Milan and Innsbruck shooting primarily color slides. He discovered the true magic of black & white photography by accident in the fall of 1997 after he shot several rolls of black & white during a trip to Rome, Italy and signed up for a course on printing at Northwestern University when he returned.

Since then he has returned over and over again to the darkroom to print his own images using fine art papers and archival toners. These days his favorite subjects are people and street scenes sometimes combining genre in one image. He has done a large number of fine art erotic of glamour images with models dressed in leather or latex posing among recognizable Chicagoland settings.

Candid portraiture and emotional images are both themes, which interest him. He has recently exhibited his work under his artist name Geoffrey Transu at Feitico Gallery on North Avenue and at the Tango and Arts Milonga at Lake Street Gallery. He is available for free lance assignments. His rates are fully negotiable and depend upon the individual projects, you may e-mail him at geoffbro24@earthlink.net . In addition, he is very open to working with models on a TFP basis. For more information, check his website www.phototransu.com .