Photographer Robert Claus Is Inspired by Old Paintings

My name is Robert Claus. As a kid, I wanted to be an artist--a painter or composer, or preferably both. Life has a funny way of redirecting and planing down these creative (and potentially very expensive) impulses, so that when I returned to photography as an adult, it was the perfect means of self-expression for me, as I could bring my other passions to bear, from lighting a still life like a 17th century painting, to thinking about sequencing images in a portfolio or collection like a piece of...