What I Actually Pack for a Two-Week Assignment

Kit lists are boring until you are standing in an airport at five in the morning wondering whether the second body is worth the excess baggage. It is.

Two Bodies, Three Primes

One body wears the 35mm and stays on my shoulder all day. The second wears the 85mm and lives in the bag until a portrait appears. The 16-35mm comes out for interiors and for the landscape work that pays for the rest of it.

The One Thing That Has Saved Three Shoots

A twenty-gram card wallet with four spare cards in it, worn on a lanyard rather than packed. Cards fail, cards get full, and cards get left in the reader at the hotel. Nothing else in the bag has rescued a day three times.