Summarizing your photography in two words

. In a recent interview with John Offenbach, Feature Shoot asked the photographer—whose portfolio spans architecture, landscapes, automotive, portraits, still life, and conceptual—to describe his work. His response? “Tidy, ordered.” Two words that say it all. That’s not easy to do. Hot Shoe magazine’s blog has devoted a whole post today to artist statements and [...]

Presenting… 22 new editorial and advertising highlights

I’ll be taking next week off, but to tide you over, here’s a look at 22 of our photographers’ latest editorial and advertising shoots, as featured in our spring e-newsletter. See you on Monday, April 4… .   . .

John Offenbach and Fallon art buyer Kerri Jamison talk Travelers

. For the past five-plus years, John Offenbach has been shooting the print campaigns for Travelers Insurance, for Fallon in Minneapolis. It’s an ongoing collaboration that has garnered him numerous awards, including a Gold from Campaign magazine at the 2009 Campaign Photo Awards and first prize at the inaugural New York Photo Awards. The work [...]

Hotel couture: John Offenbach on shooting the first-ever Armani hotel

Earlier this year, Giorgio Armani unveiled his first-ever hotel, the Armani Hotel Dubai, ensconced in the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. To entice prospective visitors with the luxury hotel’s “minimalist elegance” and “sophisticated beauty”—two descriptions from the website that, as you will soon see, are not embellished—creative director Alex Brunori at MRM Worldwide in [...]

Photo gallery: Architecture—featuring images by Rolph Gobits, Kai Uwe Gundlach, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach

Click on any of the photos below to view “Stockland Martel presents… Architecture,” a 26-image gallery featuring… .     . .

More International Photography Awards: the Honorable Mentions

Last week, I wrote about the Stockland Martel photographers who took 1st Place at this year’s IPAs. This week, let’s take a look at the photographers from our roster who received Honorable Mentions: Fulvio Bonavia, David Drebin, Jim Fiscus, Rolph Gobits, Lauren Greenfield, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Nadav Kander, John Midgley, Michael Muller, John Offenbach, Martin Sigal, [...]

Red all about it: John Offenbach photographs Jean Nouvel’s monochromatic Serpentine Pavilion

Every year, the Serpentine Gallery in London commissions an important architect or architectural firm  to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn, and this year, that important architect is Jean Nouvel. His pavilion is a clean-lined study executed almost entirely in vermilion, as you can see from these photographs by our own John Offenbach, who’s [...]

Nine Stockland Martel photogs featured in Luerzer’s “200 Best”

Luerzer’s Archive has just published the 2010/11 edition of its venerable photo annual 200 Best Ad Photographers, and nine of our photographers are featured. We proudly congratulate Fulvio Bonavia, Martin Sigal, John Offenbach, Uwe Duettmann, Jason Hindley, Jim Fiscus, Nadav Kander, Kai-Uwe Gundlach, and Michael Muller. Click on the image below to view a slideshow [...]

A week of personal work: John Offenbach

So I’m taking this week off, and in celebration of doing something different for a while, I’ve lined up a week’s worth of posts highlighting personal work by our photographers. It’s inspiring to see the projects they’ve been exploring in their free time—personal work is a sign of a photographer’s passion for their art. Over [...]

Using CGI to make “emotional” automotive images?

Lots of photographers use CGI to create scenarios that would otherwise be impossible to execute, but it’s usually because they’re under budget and time constraints or because they want to achieve something fantastical. John Offenbach, on the other hand, has been experimenting with using CGI to achieve an emotional special effect. I’ll let him explain: [...]

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