Monthly Archives: March 2011

100s of new photos, video, Recent Work portfolios, and much more at the new stocklandmartel.com!

. We’re very excited to announce that the redesign of our website, stocklandmartel.com, is live. It was more than a year in the making as we worked to determine what our clients need and how the website could make their job easier. Now when you visit stocklandmartel.com, you’ll find… . • hundreds of new photos [...]

Video: Behind the scenes of Michael Muller’s Outside mag cover shoot with Jimmy Chin

. Michael Muller photographed climber/skier/photographer Jimmy Chin in Death Valley, California, for the April cover of Outside, which is the magazine’s Adventure Issue… . . “How do you feel about shooting in Death Valley?” Michael asks Jimmy, who did the Kilimanjaro/Summit on the Summit climb last year with him, at one point in the behind-the-scenes [...]

Spotlight: Kwaku Alston

Kwaku Alston has photographed some of the most famous faces in the world—from Hollywood luminaries and Grammy winners to President Barack Obama and the First Family—for editorial and advertising clients ranging from Crate & Barrel, Coca-Cola, Blackberry, Target, and Verizon to The New York Times Magazine, Real Simple, and Time. His portraits have a fresh, [...]

Walter Iooss, Bjorn Iooss, and the Swimsuit Issue

. On a dreary, rain-soaked Manhattan day near the end of a loooong winter, one’s mind drifts to thoughts of tropical climates where the sun is constant and there’s not a shred of wool to be found. Places like you see in the current Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the cover of which was shot not [...]

Image of the Day: Jonathan Franzen by Jeff Lipsky

. Megan O’Grady interviewed Jonathan Franzen last year about his latest novel, Freedom, for the September 2010 Vogue, and the piece was accompanied by the above portrait of the bestselling author shot by Jeff Lipsky. Here’s an excerpt from O’Grady’s story: In the period following The Corrections, the downside of unchecked liberty was very much [...]

Joerg Colberg interviews Nadav Kander

. Joerg Colberg, who writes the blog Conscientious, recently interviewed Nadav Kander about his Prix Pictet–winning Yangtze project, a conversation that led the two into a discussion on the nuances that distinguish documentary work from art and the affinity between Nadav’s portraiture and his landscapes. Here’s an excerpt: . JC: If a lot of the [...]

New work, plus behind-the-scenes video: Liz Von Hoene for Burlington

. What happened was, Burlington hired Woodbine to give them “a fresh new look and image across package design, at retail and online with a new website,” as the North Carolina–based agency explains at its blog. And Woodbine commissioned Liz Von Hoene to do the photography. Here’s a look at at some of her images: [...]

Ooh, la, la: David Drebin gets 12 pages in French magazine “Photo”

. The French magazine Photo published a 12-page feature on David Drebin in its March issue. Here’s a look… . .

5 noteworthy photographer sites

. La Lettre de la Photographie columnist Paul Melcher has singled out five photographers’ websites that he thinks deserve a special look, including Michael Muller‘s site, mullerphoto.com. “You could get lost in Michael Muller’s website,” writes Melcher. “It is as various and eclectic as his talent. From adventure photography, to music, entertainment, sports and advertising, [...]

Hans Gissinger’s “Water Textures” on view at “The Art of Eating” exhibition in Spain

. In 2004, Hans Gissinger produced a series of images at famed chef Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli restaurant in Spain titled “Water Textures.” In the series, which comprises 19 photos, Hans finds in ordinary water a wildly diverse range of aesthetic possibilities and pictorial equivalents. The shapes and degree of transparency in one image might [...]

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