Cyclists acting goofy: Portraits by Jorg Badura for Gran Fondo

Calling all NYC cyclists! May 20 is the second-annual Gran Fondo New York, which “brings Italian cycling culture to the world’s greatest city.” Open to everyone, the event is your chance to pedal your way through one of two thigh-testing rides: the Gran Fondo, which covers 100 miles and four timed climbs, and the more [...]

New work: Jim Fiscus shoots key art for new NBC series “Awake”

. NBC premiered the new series Awake this month, which stars Jason Isaacs as Michael, a detective who lives in two very different realities: In one, his teenage son has died in a car crash, and in the other, his wife is the one who has died in the accident. Complicating things further, Michael has [...]

New work: Matthew Rolston’s key art for the movie “Mirror Mirror”

On Friday, the long-awaited movie Mirror Mirror opens in theaters across the country, putting a fresh—and star-studded, thanks to the presence of Julia Roberts as the evil queen—spin on the classic tale of Snow White. Relativity Media, the studio producing the film, commissioned Matthew Rolston to shoot key art, a project that found him working [...]

Don’t lorry, be happy: Jason “Giblin” Hindley shoots new U.K. bike-safety campaign

Transport for London, the city’s official information hub for all modes of getting around, has just released a new campaign focused on keeping cyclists safe around big trucks, a.k.a. lorries. “Lorries have significant areas around them where cyclists are difficult to see by the driver,” cautions Transport’s site. “Our aim is to reduce the number of [...]

New work: Uwe Duettmann for Red Bull

A new overseas campaign for Red Bull reflects just how influential retro-centric iPhone apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have become to advertisers eager to reach a visually savvy young audience. Some of the photos have a faded-Polaroid look, while others have a scratched-up old-camera effect or are super-saturated in that yummy Kodachrome way. They are, [...]

Talking photography with…Leslie Smolan of branding and design firm Carbone Smolan Agency

What do you call business-related photography, the kind used in annual reports, business magazines, ad campaigns for companies like investment firms, etc.? Here at Stockland Martel, our shorthand term is corporate photography, and we think of it as portraits of executives, pictures of people out in the world dressed in business attire, shots of work [...]

New work: Steven Lippman for Baha Mar resort and casino

The luxury hotels that will make up the Baha Mar resort and casino, set amid the white-sand beaches of Nassau, the Bahamas, won’t be completed till 2014, but the branding process—key to building buzz for the project—has already begun. In fact, SK+G, a Las Vegas–based advertising and marketing agency specializing in working with the hospitality [...]

New work: John Midgley shoots Olympics-themed vitaminwater campaign for Droga5

The Olympics are coming up soon, and the big ad campaigns pegged to the Games are starting to make their debut. Including this campaign for vitaminwater, shot by John Midgley for Droga5. “They wanted a whimsical take on Olympic events,” explains John, who shot the locations in Los Angeles, London, and New York and the [...]

Stockland Martel welcomes photographer Melanie Acevedo

We’re thrilled to announce that Stockland Martel now represents photographer Melanie Acevedo. Melanie has worked all over the globe for a wide variety of advertising and editorial clients, including Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Anthropologie, J. Crew, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, InStyle, Vogue Bambini, and Condé Nast Traveler. Her specialties are lifestyle, food, kids, and interiors, [...]

New work: Steven Lippman shoots stills, directs spot for City Creek Center

On March 22, a new shopping mall is opening in Salt Lake City. But it’s not your usual collection of shops and kiosks. City Creek Center, which will anchor one of the nation’s largest mixed-use downtown redevelopment projects, boasts a retractable glass roof, a creek, and a pedestrian skybridge. That’s in addition to more than [...]

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