Recently, Washington, D.C.-based commercial photographer and director Eli Meir Kaplan took a jaunt down to Goshen Scout Reservation in Virginia to shoot some personal work for the Boy Scouts of America. This was a natural light project, like most of Eli’s work, and filled with iconography that hasn’t changed much in the past 50 years.
I chatted with Eli about his inspiration for the project:
Goshen Scout Reservation first came to my attention because I had an intern who worked at one of the main Boy Scouts of America camps every summer, which sounded interesting. I did a quick Google search and found Goshen Scout Reservation, which exclusively serves Scouts from the Washington, DC area. It was set in the Shenandoah Valley, which is beautiful. Also, I was a Cub Scout as a kid and went to a similar camp for a week.
It was a two-day shoot, with the first being mostly location scouting.