Heather Graham Time Machine
The idea to her current self posing with her teenage self. The wisdom she imparts to her younger self is “Teach yourself to be selfish; if you make yourself happy, you’ll be more generous with other people.”
More Lastminute.com
It’s said that the best way to experience a place is through its people, so doing this extended stay shoot with a full British crew was great for me as a tourist.
London Calling!
On a Thursday I received confirmation of a three-week ad shoot in England for Lastminute.com and the following Tuesday I was in London with a full UK crew and a shot list of 17 separate executions.
Moo Yorker
This curious New Yorker story is about the controversy over raw milk and its gray-market status. It has generated a lot of discussion, and now the photo dept has posted a short interview with me on the subject.
Bush 41 & Lürzer’s 200
The latest edition of Lürzer’s Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers features three of my photographs, including this portrait of President George H. W. and Mrs. Bush.
Rap Darwinism
Wired Magazine proposed this as a modest still shoot with Baba Brinkman, then requested video just before the shoot date. A white rapper doing an off-Broadway show about science and evolution is certainly unusual but the portrait solution seemed almost predestined.
With A Rebel Yael
I asked intern Yael Young to be a guest blogger this week. She included some background on our recent TVO ad shoot in Toronto.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Josette Lata is opinionated about a lot of things, and she’s not shy to share. One thing that she has full right have strong views on is photography and photographers. Here is the background on the CononoPhillips and Diesel campaigns that I shot with her.
“Here In My Car”
Not only did they want portraits, but they looked to feature a number of Mazda employees, creating the potential to bringing gravitas and authenticity to their concepts.
Playboy Bunny
This GQ shoot with Simon Cowell was in danger of going off the rails because the subject was too much into our props.
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
We had one day to pull together the shoot – so with me on the ground in Los Angeles ready to hit the prop shops and Rolling Stone working the phone out of New York we got to work finding our robot.