For this image, I lit Mel with a film noir look. Editorial personality shoots are always fun and rely on experience, preparation, collaboration and often serendipity to fit an entire magazine shoot into a half of a day. Diane Anderson-Minshall, Editor in Chief of HIV Plus magazine and friend for well over a decade, asked me to shoot a cover and inside layout of actor Mel England. This is a big shoot for the magazine, Mel is a very outspoken, inspirational and well-known actor