Portrait in a Vault

I have wanted to shoot inside of a bank vault for a long time, because vaults have so much great looking metal.  This assignment offered me the chance to do a portrait within an old bank vault because a group of companies are creating an apprenticeship program in Muskegon, and they had acquired an old bank building to be the main base for the program.

The difficulty of being inside of the vault was that if the gate closed, we would have been locked inside, and the vault was a very small space to light.