As some of you may be aware I teach Commercial Still Life at SVA. As we are drawing closer to the end of the semester a number of my students have been approaching me about career advice, specifically how to get from school into the industry. With the current state of things and the sheer [...]
Word started breaking courtesy of the New York Times last night that Time Inc, Hearst, Condé Nast and Meredith are becoming partners in a new a digital distribution venture, an Itunes Store for Magazines basically. I for one say bravo. Glad to hear an aggressive move is finally being taken to get magazines ready for [...]
I photographed this assignment back in October for IEEE to illustrate a story about meeting our future energy needs through not just biofuels but also inorganic resources as well. The magazine wanted something that had an experimental laboratory feel to it. Since it was a pretty abstract concept I started by sketching out a couple [...]
A few days back I posted a recent image of a gun I covered in sprinkles. Apparently I wasn’t the first photographer to do so. Photographer Cormac Hanley sent me a comment today reading “Remarkably similar similar concept to this pre-exisiting photo: http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/08/photographer_co.php“. Cormac has a great image of a sprinkled gun as well. Now [...]
Not to be left to go gently into that good night, Condé Nast is gearing up for the inevitable transition from paper to digital distribution. Media Memo has a great article about the company’s plans for next gen magazines. Wired will be leading the way by having ready a digital version for the rumored apple [...]
Time got away from me today while I was hunched over the computer retouching like a maniac, thus keeping me away from blogging. So in keeping with yesterday’s gun theme here is a recent piece from my personal work.
Below are a couple images I shot a few months back for a classic rifle story in the current issue of Field & Stream. Due to New York gung laws we aren’t able to bring the rifles into the city to be photographed, so we pack up the studio and head about an hour and [...]
Tomorrow night FPS (Film Photo Synthesis) Fest is being held at ROOT studios in Brooklyn. The fest is billed as “a film screening event the explores the transition from still photography to motion”. Some of the photographers slated to show projects include Vincet Laforet, Andrew Hetherington, and Amber Gray. If you are at all interested [...]
I’ve had a nice spat of some cool science related shoots in the past couple months. I really enjoy the assignments from this genre as they often entail conceptual ideas that let me play a bit of a mad scientist myself in the studio. These first two images were for a story in IEEE Spectrum [...]
Esquire has recently taken several different forays into blending new media with traditional magazine fair. Most notably a couple Red Camera covers and the Digital Ink anniversary issue. The success of any of these was debatable and not overwhelmingly exciting. Well the magazine took another step forward with their “Augmented Reality” issue hitting the [...]
