Anna de Rijk: Harper's Bazaar Spain, June 2011

                       

Model: Anna de Rijk 
Photographer: Txema Yeste 
Stylist: Juan Cebrian 

Burberry Prorsum A/W '11/'12 Ad Campaign

Perhaps it's the fact that it's winter where I currently am, or perhaps it comes down to having a sense of the collection's potential impact upon 2012's fashion, but it's fair to say that I'm always happy to take in any reinterpretation of Burberry Prorsum's fall 2011 collection. A collection that makes burnt colours and a mod 60s vibe its hallmarks.

The fifties, food and fashion

Dream Weaver
The Sunday Times Style May 2011
Model: Iris Egbers
Photographer: Daniel Sannwald
Stylist: Lucy Ewing

You may not think of it, particularly in a fashion context, but there's something innately romantic about a big bunch of rhubarb, a string of sausages, or some flowering artichokes. The romance isn't just in what you do with those objects, what you create from them; it's in the notion of where they come from. It's the 1950s and you're the woman to whom cooking is a sensual art; you pick up your fresh produce from the local market of your provincial European town; and you do it all in your stylish headscarf and two-piece skirt suit.

Hello sunshine, hello Lily Donaldson

           

 

Model: Lily Donaldson 

Photographer: Matt Irwin 

Stylist: Darcy Backlar

Muse issue #26, Summer 2011

When Muse magazine do summer they really do summer, so Sigrid Agren's swim shoot wasn't the only thing in the issue to leap off the pages in vibrant colour and with an attitude that drops serious artiness in exchange for pure fun. Lily Donaldson's Hello Sunshine is the kind of sexy that's bold, saturated, attention-grabbing and styled for summertime glamour; with tailored colour-blocking, neoprene swimwear, and solid gold jewellery aplenty.

A projection through time

       

Jewellery and horological photo shoots seem like the bastard children in fashion magazines. Often feeling like a last minute arrangement, they usually involve close-up beauty photos of one of the day's leading models, parts of her body layered with an uncomfortable quantity of whatever product it is the publisher wants to highlight to their readers. Time and time again (not a pun, honestly) that's the extent of it.

Photographer Charles Guo, however, brings something new to the concept of the accessories photo shoot. And at the same time he doesn't. After all, the commonalities for these kinds of photo shoots are all there: the watches, the model, and the nudity. Yet the overt simplicity that normally plagues such photo shoots is gone, replaced instead with dramatic lighting, heady, and (technically) no jewellery at all.

Kevin Ou, Los Angeles

Kevin Ou is a celebrity and commercial photographer, originally from Singapore, but now based in Los Angeles. He has shot for a wide range of clients, including Rolling Stone, People, Surface, Entertainment Weekly, Lego, BMW and General Motors.

James Day

James Day lives and works in London, where he specializes in shooting still life, automotive and portraits for advertising and editorial clients. Day is represented by Levine/Leavitt in New York.

JAN VON HOLLEBEN

"I once ruled the worlds. Not just one, but many. I ruled them with mirrors and lenses. I ruled them with light and shadow and time. Sometimes I ruled with a trick of the eye. Through my camera, an entire cosmos took shape, and each world within it seemed to operate by a certain unfamiliar logic, like a sort of magical clockwork."

Guy Aroch

Guy Aroch moved from Israel to NYC in 1990 to become a professional photographer. In 1993, Guy graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and began working professionally. Specializing in Beauty, Fashion and Celebrity portraits, his images are considered strong, sharp and beautifully lit. Guy is also teacher at school of Visual Arts of NYC. As Aroch puts it, "I always try to create a strong image that is somewhat different than any I have seen of my subject." He shares his time between NYC and Europe

Aroch's clients include editorials such as Diesel campaign S/S 2011, Gant, Tommy Hilfiger, Allure, D La Republica, French Magazine, Glamour Italy, GQ (Italy&Style), Harper's Bazaar (US&UK), Interview, Jalouse, L'Officiel, Nylon, Surface, Tatler, The New York Times. Vogue (US&Mens), Vibe, and WWD. Counted among his advertising clients are Victoria Secret, Aldo Rossi, Avon, Nivea Visage, Gant, Macy's, Garnier, Jean Louis David, Wella, Bloomingdale's, Regis, Kenneth Cole, L'Oreal, Domay, Esprit, Sonia Rykiel, H&M and Galeries Lafayette.

Doi Kouichirou

                                                            

                        

                        

Koichiro DOI was born and raised in Tokyo. He moved to New York originally to study fashion design, and graduated from Parsons School of Design. After returning to Japan, DOI began shifting his focus to photography, and started his career as a Still Life photographer, acquiring skills and technique through self-study. DOI now specializes in Beauty as well as Still Life.
DOI shoots for various fashion magazines such as Big, French Magazine, Numéro, Velvet, Vogue Nippon, Wallpaper, i-D, Harper's Bazaar Japan, V Magazine and Spur. Among his Advertising clients: Biotherm, Kerastase, Shu Uemura Art of Hair, Shiseido, Omega, Lancôme, L'Oréal professional, L'Oréal, Wella, Anteprima, Issey Miyake, Paul & Joe Beauté, Anna Sui Cosmetics, Häagen-Dazs, Canon, Dior Beauty, Kenzo, Clarins, Carolina Herrera Parfums, Falke and Nissan.

Danielle Levitt, New York

Danielle Levitt moved to New York from Los Angeles in 1993, when she started photographing street fashion for The New York Post. Her provocative work has been included in publications such as Details, Arena, Arena Homme Plus, The New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, and she has created advertising campaigns for Intel Centrino, Target and Docker’s. This series, Roll Play, was shot for S Magazine.

Daniel Shipp, Sydney

Daniel Shipp was born and raised in Sydney Australia where he graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a degree in Photomedia. His education continued by assisting fashion photographers which led him to live in Montreal and then Toronto. Now firmly based in Sydney again he is drawn to graphic shapes and strong light which he applies to the portrait and object assignments he now shoots. He continues to develop his work by shooting a healthy amount of personal projects which celebrate imperfection.

Steven Brahms, New York

Steven Brahms is a photographer, artist and director originally from Madison, Wisconsin. The day after receiving his BFA in Photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology, he moved to New York and quickly started his career as a photo editor for Bloomberg News. He honed his craft after working as an assistant and lighting director for some of the industries top photographers before going out on his own.

His clients include M&C Saatchi, S Magazine, Spin, Vibe, and Blender. He is represented by Goldteeth & Co.

Matt Henry, London

Matt Henry is a UK-based photographer who shoots little stories about 60s/70s America – a project that can be attributed to three decades of U.S. film and television addiction. Although his love of storytelling led him first into fashion photography, he quickly became tired of having to tell stories about beautiful women in beautiful clothes. Fueled by the notion that another photographic genre of narrative fiction had yet to be embraced, he set about creating his somewhat darkened vision of classic, rural America. Matt lives in Brighton with his Rhodesian Ridgeback dog Sam and works commercially out of Paris and London.

Barbara Cole

Barbara Cole is a Toronto-based, self-taught photographic artist, who has built an extraordinary career in image making. Cole’s innovation is in her underwater photography; she states “water becomes a natural lens that refocuses and reinterprets the painterly aesthetic.”  Following the success of White Noise and Underworld, Chromatics marks Cole’s growing interest in colour abstraction.  In this series, she has progressed towards a near-total dissolution of the figure, referencing and reinterpreting mid-century colour field painting.  The result is a dramatic tension between the figure and form that tests the nature of photography and its impact on our experience of reality.

Tim Walker photography

Tim creates evocative images full of textured nuance and intriguing detail and his innovative photography is amongst the most imaginative and exuberant being produced today.

He draws upon his childhood to construct sets for his images that are witty and playful yet sufficiently sophisticated enough to perform for his fashion clients.

Its the sort of thinking that I could imagine creating lots of fun during a shoot (aside from the hard work in creating it of course) as well as in conceiving his ideas.

Patrick Demarchelier

A man who has worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour and many others. He has worked with top models, make-up artists and designers and was even mentioned in the goddess of chick-flicks 'The Devil Wears Prada'. Patrick Demarchelier has literally reached the top of the fashion photography career, and judging by the shots below his position is well deserved.

Miles Aldridge

"When Antonioni came to London to make the film Blow-up, he had all of the grass in the park painted green because it wasn't colorful enough for him," notes photographer Miles Aldridge. "That's why an hour and a half of an Antonioni movie is so much more interesting to me than an hour and a half of real life. Because it's condensed emotion, condensed color, condensed light."

Schroeder-headz CD

Newdays

GRAPHIS Photography Annual 2010

The Annual features the year’s best photographs, awarded a Graphis Gold or Platinum Award, taken by some of the world’s eminent Photographers, including Craig Cutler, Henry Leutwyler, Heinz Baumann, Laurie Frankel and dramatic journalism photographs for Newsweek. This edition features a Q&A with the Chief Curator of the International Center of Photography, Brian Wallis, and a documentation of the most preferred equipment used.

Loretta Lux Photo

Unline by alfredoBANNISTER

STELLA MCARTNEY’S LUCKY SPOT CHANDELIER

Stella McCartney was inspired to create Lucky Spot following a visit to a “beautiful place with a grand, medieval castle and a mystical quarry garden.” This inspired her to create something magical, visual and aesthetically stunning .

DAN MOUNTFORD ART

He is a graphic design student from Brighton, UK. Amazing use of double exposure and design.

LORI NIX MINIATURE PHOTOS

Lori Nix is an artist who bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas—a place that seems to attract disasters like no other.

KENJI AOKI PHOTOGRAPHY

Kenji Aoki was born a native of Tokyo. His arms have been an immersed in his practice and his outstretched arms have been attmpting to lasso around the intangible allure of photography.

Wonderland by Nick Knight

The Opera Coat