As Kwaku notes at his blog, Art of Studio, both People and Us Weekly are featuring Bachelor stars Jake and Vienna as their cover stories this week. Kwaku shot the People cover story in Malibu, California, a few weeks ago, on February 26. . “Not just a difference in lighting… two magazines covering the same [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Recent Work | Tags: Jake Pavelka, Kwaku Alston, Vienna Girardi |
In honor of this year’s Academy Awards, which gets started at Sunday at 8 PM EST on ABC, I thought I’d show off some of the portraits our photographers have taken of the 2010 nominees over the years. And then, out of curiosity, I started researching which previous nominees and winners our photographers have shot. [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Announcements | Tags: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, David Drebin, Nadav Kander, Roxanne Lowit, Timothy White, John Midgley, Matthew Rolston, Charlize Theron, Michael Muller, Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Jeff Lipsky, Amy Adams, queen latifah, robert downey jr., susan sarandon, oprah winfrey, celebrity portraiture, Ellen Page, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Nino Muñoz, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Awards, Oscars, Geoffrey Rush, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Don Cheadle, Charles Durning, Clint Eastwood, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Andy Garcia, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Javier Bardem, Kim Basinger, Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, Jeremy Irons, Annette Bening, William H. Macy, Sharon Stone, Forrest Whitaker, Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tilda Swinton, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Uma Thurman, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Emily Watson, Casey Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Matt Dillon Ethan Hawke, Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Michelle Williams, Tom Cruise, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek, Felicity Huffman, Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolia, Jude Law, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon, Renee Zellweger, Louise Gossett Jr., John Malkovich, Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Travolta, Sandra Bullock |
February 22, 2010 – 11:26 am
. . Over at PDNonline.com, there’s an interview with Kwaku about the iPhone version of his site he created to make his work more accessible. Kwaku, who worked with designer Giorgio Baravalle, talks about the cost, look, and how he’s coordinating the iPhone version with his regular website. “The iPhone completely changed the digital landscape,” [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Stockland Martel Photographers in the News | Tags: iPhone portfolios, Jacqueline Tobin, Kwaku Alston |
February 5, 2010 – 7:47 pm
. Kwaku has been photographing Venice Beach, where he lives, for the past decade, and he occasionally exhibits some of those images at his studio on Abbott-Kinney Boulevard. Last fall, for example, he showed his portraits of vintage Volkswagen buses parked in and around his neighborhood. (Below is the invitation, and you can view scenes [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Announcements, Events, Featured Personal Project | Tags: Bill Stockland, Horizon Court, J. Wesley Brown, Kwaku Alston, Shana Nys Dambrot, venice beach, Volkslivin, Volkswagen buses, We Can Shoot Too |
February 2, 2010 – 9:41 am
. The Black List: Volume Three, the latest installment in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell’s award-winning The Black List Project, premieres this month in a variety of forms and venues. Last night, Bill Stockland, Stockland Martel photo agent Michelle Sack, and photographer Kwaku Alston attended a screening of The Black List: Volume Three documentary at [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Announcements, Events | Tags: beverly johnson, Bill Stockland, Dr. Michael Lomax, elvis mitchell, Faye Wattleton, HBO documentaries, Hill Harper, john legend, Kwaku Alston, LaTanya Richardson, Lee Daniels, michelle sack, Paley Center for Media, The Black List, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Whoopi Goldberg |
January 26, 2010 – 9:24 am
. At his Facebook page, Kwaku Alston has posted a bunch of photos he took at the SMart Book 2010 party/exhibition last Thursday, including these: . . . . . These next photos, meanwhile, are from the SMart party pics posted at the Society of Visual Creatives: . . . . Thank you to everyone [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Events | Tags: Allegra Wilde, Andrew Hetherington, Kaia Hemming, Kwaku Alston, Lisa Elin, Liz Von Hoene, Luca Zordan, meghan mcneer, Nino Muñoz, Robert Ripps, Simon Horobin, SMart Book, Tamika Harold |
December 17, 2009 – 10:19 am
… PDN has expanded its feature on celebrity portraiture, in the December issue, online and asked a variety of photographers to answer questions like “What is the most challenging situation you’ve ever had to deal with while photographing a celebrity and what did you do to get the shot?” The shooters they spoke to include [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Stockland Martel Photographers in the News | Tags: Brian Ach, celebrity portraiture, Chris Buck, Emily Shur, Joseph Cultice, Kwaku Alston, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Freed, stella kramer, stellazine |
December 16, 2009 – 11:53 am
… You know how magazine covers always tout the number of good things contained inside? “85 Uses for Your Gardening Hose.” “Rock-Hard Abs in Only 3,427 Steps.” “0 Reasons to Like Sen. Joe Lieberman.” Well, we’ve taken a similar (but more serious) approach with our 2009 Winter E-Newsletter. If you’re on our mailing list, you [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Announcements, Recent Work | Tags: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, David Drebin, Nadav Kander, Roxanne Lowit, Timothy White, John Midgley, Jan Steinhilber, Kai Uwe Gundlach, Craig Cutler, Luca Zordan, Michael Muller, Scott and Zoe, Martin Sigal, Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Walter Iooss, Lauren Greenfield, Vincent Laforet, Jeff Lipsky, fulvio bonavia, rolph gobits, playboy, collezioni, gardasil, kate spade, tracy morgan, Entourage, emily blunt, reverie, the Jacksons reality show, Aktion Mensch, Monte Carlo Casinos, Adidas, Crayola, Prudential, the Kardashians, Beef magazine, Le Figaro |
December 4, 2009 – 4:12 pm
.. Okay, it’s not exactly surprising that Woody, who is a certified yoga instructor, vegetarian, and raw-foods enthusiast (according to this article), is a Crocs man. But I was still amused when I saw this candid photo by Kwaku Alston of the 48-year-old actor wearing a mocha-colored pair of the love-them-or-hate-them shoes. Guess if you [...]
By Kristina Feliciano | Posted in Recent Work | Tags: Crocs, Kwaku Alston, Venice magazine, Woody Harrelson |
Jim Fiscus: “Outwork your competitors.”
. Over at the Stockland Martel offices this past fall, Bill and Maureen and the reps were talking about ways that the agency could reach out to students of photography. They were keen to expand their current efforts: Stockland Martel already makes a conscious effort to stay in touch with the various colleges where either [...]