Scenes from Le Book Connections

. Le Book Connections kicked off yesterday. . . Here’s Maureen at our booth… . . And Simon Horobin, Dana Eudy, and Bill… . . Some close-up views of the booth… . . In addition to their print portfolios, we’re also showing our photographers’ work via iPad. We’ve set it up so you can view [...]

An interview with Le Book’s Michael Kazam

With Le Book Connections—a trade show for “all professionals who commission talent”—coming up in New York next week, it seemed like a good time to check in with Michael Kazam, the international development director of Le Book (which he cofounded with Veronique Kolasa). Does he see signs of hope after a couple of lean years [...]

Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

Opening-night photos: Nadav Kander exhibitions in Berlin

Last week, Bill and Maureen went to Berlin for the opening of two exhibitions of Nadav’s work, at the Camera Work gallery and at Museum the Kennedys (the latter displayed “Obama’s People” with Richard Avedon’s “The Family”). . “For many years, Kander’s photographs have been an integral part of distinguished collections such as those of [...]

Doug Menuez: “Ignore your creative needs at your peril”

The new issue of PDNedu features an interview with Doug Menuez in which the award-winning photographer talks about his 30-plus-year career, from his photojournalistic beginnings as an intern at The Washington Post (he describes, for example, how he managed to get a shot of Mother Teresa that was different from what his press-corps peers were [...]

Nadav Kander and Richard Avedon exhibition in Berlin

The Camera Work photo gallery, located in Berlin and named after Alfred Stieglitz’s pioneering magazine, represents work by some of the world’s most iconic photographers—Man Ray, Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus, among them. So we’re thrilled to report that on March 20, the gallery will present an exhibition featuring photographs by our own Nadav Kander. [...]

HeatherMortonArt buyer interviews Maureen Martel about marketability

. As Heather explains in a blog post yesterday, she was intrigued by a comment Maureen had made in an interview last month with Miki Johnson’s RESOLVE blog: . “Application for the marketplace is also key. Key key, key key, key. If you can’t apply it, you can’t satisfy the client.” . Maureen was referring [...]

Video: Maureen Martel on the new SMart Book and the power of print promos

At the party last month to celebrate the debut of Stockland Martel’s new photo annual, SMart Book 2010, I interviewed Maureen Martel about the design of the book and why the agency continues to produce a printed photo annual in the digital age. Here’s what she had to say: . . (Major thanks to Whitney [...]

Introducing Jason Hindley: Sharp as a tack, sometimes literally

. As Bill and Maureen noted last month in the RESOLVE interview “Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel,” British photographer Jason Hindley has joined the Stockland Martel roster. Here’s the e-blast we sent out last week to spread the word: . . .

Pics: SMart Book 2010 party

. Last Thursday was the big party and exhibition for the just-released SMart Book 2010, which we hosted at The Gallery @ Stockland Martel. We shot video interviews with a number of the photographers, as well as an interview with Maureen Martel on the concept and design of SMart Book 2010 and her thoughts on [...]