Category Archives: Behind the Scenes

Video: Behind the scenes at Michael Muller’s photo shoot with Giovanni Ribisi

Michael photographed actor Giovanni Ribisi for the Summer 200 issue of New York Moves magazine, and in this behind-the-scenes video of the shoot, you can feel like you were right there with them both… . . .

Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s John Kieselhorst on Nadav Kander and the making of their cheeky Monte Carlo campaign

When PDN selected this image shot by Nadav Kander… . . for its Photo Annual 2010, I thought it’d be interesting to get the story behind (no pun intended!) the campaign. So I sent John Kieselhorst—he’s now associate creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder but worked on these ads when he was [...]

Video: Vincent Laforet’s Volkswagen spec ad

Canon recently asked Vincent to collaborate with them on a shoot to show off what the Canon 1D Mark IV, one of its new HDDSLR cameras, can do, so he chose to do a spec ad with a silver VW Bug. “It was shot over two days in downtown Los Angeles with a Canon behind-the-scenes [...]

Janet Froelich on Craig Cutler and Real Simple’s 10th-anniversary cover trio

Real Simple marked its 10th anniversary this year, a milestone that the magazine chose to celebrate with a triple split-run cover for its April issue themed “The Gift of Time.” Craig Cutler photographed the covers and worked with Real Simple creative director Janet Froelich (veteran creative director of The New York Times Magazine and T: [...]

Video: The making of Matthew Rolston’s “Art of Fashion”

. Remember the “Art of Fashion” 16-page spring-fashion photo spread that Matthew Rolston shot for Neiman Marcus recently? Well, Neiman Marcus associate creative director Margo Weathers, who worked with Matthew on the shoot, has directed a documentary on the making of the campaign. . . Featuring interviews with Matthew as well as with key members [...]

New work: Martin Sigal shoots “Nurse Jackie”

The new season of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie premieres on Monday, and I cannot wait. Such sharp writing and such a brilliant cast, led by Edie Falco as a pill-popping, hard-boiled nurse with a heart of a gold and fidelity issues. Even if you don’t have Showtime, you’ve no doubt seen the campaign, which [...]

Liz Von Hoene shoots “Live Colorfully” stills and motion for Kate Spade

Liz recently shot a spring fashion campaign in New York for Kate Spade, along with video that’s being featured both at the designer’s website and in New York City taxi cabs. The mood of the work is buoyant, playful, and poppy. “The whole campaign is about living colorfully,” Liz explains, adding that “play hooky” and [...]

Video: Behind the scenes on Michael Muller’s UFC Magazine shoot with Anderson Silva

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Video: When weather doesn’t cooperate on a shoot

. Liz Von Hoene has been in L.A. this week shooting for Neiman Marcus, collaborating with Margo Weathers, Neiman’s associate creative director. Unfortunately, it’s not a studio shoot, and if you’ve been paying attention to the weather out West, you know the conditions have been far from ideal. . The location was soggy: . . [...]

Video: Vincent Laforet shoots Hudson honeys for New York mag

… Theirs is a love story so incredible, even Strifetime—I mean, Lifetime—would find it implausible if it hadn’t actually happened. Last January, Ben Bostic and Laura Zych were passengers on US Airways flight 1549, which was forced to land on the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese. They were strangers at the [...]