Kwaku Alston shoots The Hollywood Reporter’s “Rule Breakers”

December 22, 2011 – 12:07 pm

The Hollywood Reporter has just published a 22-page special issue dedicated to “Rule Breakers 2011″—”a year-end celebration of the people who successfully rocked and rattled the status quo in Hollywood.” The editors note that the issue was nine months in the making and features “a who’s who of Hollywood,” including Kim Kardashian, whom Kwaku Alston [...]

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The New York Times profiles Kwaku Alston

December 21, 2011 – 8:37 am

. The New York Times Lens blog yesterday featured an interview with Kwaku Alston that looks at the award-winning editorial and advertising photographer’s quest to rekindle his personal passion for photography—specifically, by shooting images on his own in his Venice, California, neighborhood. “The Venice community is a remarkable mix of people and cultures,” Kwaku explained [...]

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There’s nothing quite like family

November 24, 2011 – 8:36 am

With the holiday season upon us, we’ve been thinking a lot about family. Here, we celebrate it in its many forms, forever grateful for the ties that bind us together. . . .  

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Show me the Monae

October 27, 2011 – 11:43 am

Kwaku Alston photographed the stunning singer Janelle Monae—whose refreshingly individual sense of style is part dapper, part classic glamor, part sister from another planet—for the November issue of Essence. Here’s a look. (I’ll update this post next week with a link to a behind-the-scenes post that Kwaku is putting together for his blog, Art of [...]

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“Princess Bride” and “Romy and Michele” reunion photos by Art Streiber. Plus: Kwaku Alston’s “227″ reunion photo.

October 19, 2011 – 11:47 am

As part of its special double “Reunions Issue,” Entertainment Weekly reunited the cast of the cultishly adored 1987 fantasy flick The Princess Bride, and senior associate photo editor Rachael Lieberman commissioned Art Streiber to shoot the accompanying photos. Art shot portraits of the film’s stars—Billy Crystal, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Wallace [...]

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Kwaku Alston shoots Seth MacFarlane for The Hollywood Reporter (video)

October 17, 2011 – 2:02 pm

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is the subject of the cover story in the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, which features the magazine’s fourth annual list of Top 50 Showrunners: “the 50 most influential—and valuable—creative chiefs writing, producing and redefining television.” The magazine commissioned Kwaku Alston to photograph MacFarlane, who’s on the list. Here’s [...]

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Grids’ Cover of the Day: Kwaku Alston’s Michelle Obama portrait for Essence

September 27, 2011 – 9:39 am

. Grids, the blog of the Society of Publication Designers, featured Kwaku Alston‘s Essence cover portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama as yesterday’s Cover of the Day. Congratulations to Kwaku and Essence creative director Greg Monfries and photo editor Rebecca Karamehmedovic! Kwaku has posted additional portraits of the First Lady at his blog, along with [...]

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See Kwaku Alston at the Annenberg next Thursday

September 15, 2011 – 3:21 pm

. Kwaku Alston will be speaking on “Unique Beauty” next Thursday, September 22, at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Here’s the official description of his talk, which is part of the Annenberg’s IRIS Nights Lecture Series: “As an award-winning celebrity photographer, Kwaku Alston has made a career of working with beautiful people. As a humanist, [...]

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Kwaku Alston photographs Michelle Obama for Essence’s “Power List” cover story

September 2, 2011 – 12:41 pm

Who’s got the power? Find out in the October issue of Essence, whose “Power List” celebrates the “28 Most Influential Black Women.” On the cover: a radiant portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama as photographed by Kwaku Alston. . . “Obama is joined by other notable women, including Oprah Winfrey, Valerie Jarrett, Iyanla Vanzant, Jada [...]

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International Photography Awards winners announced

August 29, 2011 – 11:53 am

.The jurors of the 2011 International Photography Awards have named their selections for subcategory and category winners, and we’re ecstatic that Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach are among their favorites. Our congratulations to them and to their fellow winners. Well done! “Category winners,” the IPA’s site explains, “will move on as [...]

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