Kiev and the sexy-enigmatic Los Angeles portrayed in David Drebin’s photographs couldn’t be more different from each other, and yet there is clearly a mutual attraction. Last night, the Brucie Collection gallery hosted an opening-night party for Drebin’s exhibition “Dreamscapes and Girls,” and it was a full house as fashionable gallery goers and art journalists [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Featured Personal Project: Tom Rafalovich’s Boy Scouts portraits
Tom Rafalovich recently accompanied a Scoutmaster and his troop on a backpacking trip in California’s Joshua Tree State Park, and the images he took there have become the basis for a new personal project for the lifestyle and fashion photographer. “I’ve always been fascinated with subcultures. I find it interesting to see and photograph what [...]
Stylist Bernardo Siaotong, former fashion editor at Surface magazine, signs with Stockland Martel
Judging from the clients he’s worked with—Maserati, Neiman Marcus, DKNY, Bergdorf Goodman—you would think that Bernardo Siaotong has been in the business forever. But the young stylist is actually in the early stages of his career, and we were thrilled when he approached us about representing him. Siaotong was the fashion editor at the avant-garde [...]
On the agenda for tonight: the PDN Photo Annual awards party
Bill and Maureen will be attending the PDN Photo Annual awards celebration tonight, where seven of our photographers are being honored. (Stockland Martel also won in the Corporate Design/Photo Products category for our SMart Book photo annual, which was written by yours truly.) Images from all over the world were submitted to the annual competition, [...]
Michael Muller on the project that makes him “thankful to be alive”
There’s a very special exhibition opening in L.A. this summer that we think you won’t want to miss. Even though there are no well-known photographers contributing to the show, there are many big names behind this important event, in addition to a lot of heart.
Two years ago, photographer Michael Muller teamed up with Jennifer Howell [...]
Nadav Kander is Story Worldwide’s “Photographer of the Week”
We’re always honored when one of our photographers receives recognition from the advertising and marketing industry, but we were particularly intrigued to learn that Story Worldwide named Nadav Kander “Photographer of the Week.” Headquartered in the U.K. and with offices in New York, Story Worldwide is a global marketing agency whose premise is that consumers [...]
Michael Muller swims with the sharks for Aquatimer watches
Sometimes a photographer’s personal interests dovetail perfectly with a client’s needs, and he or she is hired to do what they love (take photos) while doing something else that they love. In Michael Muller’s case, that something else was swimming with sharks.
For a recent campaign for Aquatimer, a series of high-end diving watches by Switzerland’s [...]
Roxanne Lowit photographs punk glamour queen in Paris
Beth Ditto, frontwoman of Olympia, Washington, punk-rock band the Gossip, has become something of a muse for photographers. With her short, choppy black hair, luminous pale skin, bowtie red lips, and ample proportions, she expresses more glamour, dacadence, and danger with one kohl-eyed glance than most professional models do. Recently, she did a sitting in [...]
Jim Fiscus’ photographic novella explores fashion and obsession
It’s amazing how far artists are willing to go to bring their ideas to life. For his latest personal project, “The Unfortunate Moment of Misunderstanding,” Jim Fiscus wanted to tell his dreamed-up tale of a wood carver who crafts life-size dolls of the same woman over and over again, each time meticulously creating a new [...]