Shaun Mackie Photography

A few months ago I was on my way to a meeting when I got stuck in traffic. While waiting for the lights to change I glanced over to a nearby bus stop.  There were around 8 or so people waiting there, all in line and looking incredibly bored. Then it hit me, the way they were standing, the way they were looking… The Last Supper!

Alright, not exactly The Last Supper…For one, they were all standing, but it did remind me of something I’d seen months earlier at a train station. Maybe it was the form or just the way things developed in my own head, after all, interpretation is subjective and it was possibly only me who seen it that day by the bus stop. Either way, it gave me an idea…

Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ (pictured above) has been extensively used in all media over the years, with all the different variations effortlessly blending art and genre to produce such brilliant images. Mainly used to signal an end to something…

Sopranos final season.

Final season of Battlestar Galactica.

Final season of Lost.

Da Vinci’s original is so enduring an image, that it still adds weight and an underlying context to any well executed image. The way forward for me was establish when, where and how I was going to produce my very own variation…