Doug Menuez on shooting portraits and connecting with your subjects

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 [...]

Doug Menuez: The need for speed (and other thoughts on having fun)

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 [...]

Doug Menuez on photographing kids (hint: Forget about being the boss)

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 [...]

Stephanie Menuez joins Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing

Doug Menuez has lured his sister, longtime photo rep Stephanie Menuez, away from San Francisco to come to New York and join the team at Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing. We’re super excited to have her on board. Here’s the official e-blast that Doug sent out this morning: . . [...]

Lauren Greenfield’s stock photos: editorial imagery from an award-winning visual storyteller

Lauren, as you know, has documented an abundance of people’s stories over the past two decades. By photographing real people in diverse situations for days, weeks, months, and even years, she captures spontaneous moments that can’t always be created in a produced advertising shoot. So her archive represents a rich resource for creatives looking to [...]

Reminder: Launch party for Menuez Archive Projects tomorrow

. . Doug Menuez’s stock site, Menuez Archive Projects, went live this past Sunday. The site features a selection of images from throughout Doug’s career as an award-winning documentary photographer (with additional work available through Stockland Martel Archives), but in honor of its Valentine’s Day launch, the homepage showcases “Evidence of Love on Planet Earth, [...]

Party invitation: Come celebrate Menuez Archive Projects on Feb. 18

. This is still a few weeks off, but Doug Menuez is hosting a big party at his studio in West Chelsea on February 18 to celebrate the launch of Menuez Archive Projects, his boutique stock site that’s officially going live on Valentine’s Day. (Here’s the MAP press release.) Menuez Archive Projects will feature work [...]

Stockland Martel launches boutique stock site

…. We’re thrilled to announce that Stockland Martel Archives, a boutique stock site that we’ve been developing, is now live. As you know, we’re fortunate to represent some of the best-known commercial, advertising, documentary, and fine-art photographers in the world, and with Stockland Martel Archives, we’ll be able to offer you carefully curated selections that [...]