October 8, 2010 – 9:15 am
At its website, Entertainment Weekly shows off a lot of the great imagery it commissions but can’t fit in the pages of the magazine. These portraits by our own Jeff Lipsky, Michael Muller, and Art Streiber are just a taste of what you’ll find EW.com’s exclusive portrait galleries. Click on the individual images to see [...]
October 6, 2010 – 9:05 am
When it comes to portraiture, photographers all have their different styles and approaches, but there’s one thing they can’t do without: trust. Gain your subject’s trust, and the possibilities are endless. “We all hide behind a facade,” notes Doug Menuez. “To get past that, I have to connect with my subjects on a basic human [...]
September 29, 2010 – 9:01 am
No one ever laid on their deathbed saying they wished they’d worked more, or found out they have only six months to live and decided they were going to make as many Powerpoint presentations as they could while they still had time, right? Of course not. We may work to live, but we live to [...]
September 22, 2010 – 9:46 am
Before he signed with Stockland Martel in 2008, Doug had spent two decades as an award-winning documentary photographer, a period marked by countless days of world travel—and kids, lots of kids, who were his unofficial welcoming party everywhere he went. “I could always count on getting swarmed by curious children as I arrived in some [...]
August 20, 2010 – 10:17 am
The winners of the third annual PDN Faces contest are now on view in a gallery at the magazine’s site. Among the honorees are five Stockland Martel photographers: David Drebin, Jim Fiscus, Lauren Greenfield, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Martin Sigal. Here are some highlights from the winners gallery: . . . To view the complete PDN [...]
August 3, 2010 – 10:09 am
Many thanks to everyone who came out for our second-annual Hollywood East Cocktail Party at The Gallery @ Stockland Martel last Thursday. It was a big success and a whole lot of fun, all set against the backdrop of an exclusive exhibition of celebrity and entertainment images by 14 of our photographers: Kwaku Alston, Matthias [...]
Like people, legs come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and levels of furriness… . . and flexibility… . . Herewith, a gallery, assembled purely for your amusement and bemusement, of leg shots (or shots that are just plain leggy) by these Stockland Martel photographers: Jorg Badura, Matthias Clamer, David Drebin, Hans Gissinger, Rolph Gobits, Lauren [...]
I was looking at this photo by Hans Gissinger, in the Conceptual section of the Stockland Martel website… . . …and that got me exploring the conceptual work by some of SM’s other photographers. And that inspired me to create the following mini-gallery—titled “What a Concept!—which features photos by Fulvio Bonavia, Matthias Clamer, Craig Cutler, [...]
On fly fishing, sportswear ads, and why landscape photos are sometimes just not enough
Are beautiful photos of nature enough to market a sportswear brand? Neil Fiske, president and CEO of Eddie Bauer, doesn’t think so. A few years ago, not long after he joined the company, Fiske spoke with a reporter about his plans to return Eddie Bauer to its core values—and changing the company’s choice of photography [...]