Yesterday afternoon I had the chance to spend a little time with Randy Zarecki as part of my ongoing work photographing the sponsors of the Sample Circuit series of culinary spectaculars.

As someone who’s written books about – and built a successful business around – personal training, Randy has been featured in all the papers in town, and each piece is hung around the Minneapolis studio where we met. When given the opportunity to photograph a person who’s gone through photo shoots in the past, as a photographer I always want to make images that are different than what’s been done before. In everything I saw, Randy was posed on the machines, talking with a client. These days, because of the success of Randy’s business, he doesn’t take clients; he runs the show. So I decided to take him out of the gym and keep the suit coat, but still give a feel to the light that you might find in fitness magazines. Kind of a Men’s Health meets Fast Company kind of vibe.

I set up in a hallway against a splash of color, and here’s a little of what we got.

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