August Bradley – The Stylish Storyteller

As the son of a photographer, August Bradley grew up studying the medium closely, yet he says the primary influences on his work aren’t photographers, but authors. It makes sense, really, when you consider that his objective is to tell stories. He just uses a camera to do it.

August Bradley was born, by his own description, at “1:37 a.m. on a cold Tuesday night.” Although, August Bradley has only been working as a photographer for four years, his involvement with the art dates to a childhood assisting his mother set up photo shoots in her studio.

In 2004, he left behind a career as a marketing strategist and first submitted photographs and stories totravel magazines. As these got picked up, he was asked to create outdoor lifestyle imagesfor advertising clients. Finding that he loved working with teams of creative people, Bradleymoved aggressively into conceptual advertising and fashion. (more…)

Portraits by Platon

Born in London in 1968, Platon was raised in the Greek Isles by his English mother, an art historian, and Greek father, an architect, until the age of seven when his family returned to London. He attended St. Martin’s School of Art, and after receiving his BA with honors in Graphic Design, he was then awarded an MA in photography and fine art at the Royal College of Art, where one of his professors and mentors was the late John Hind, the creative director of British Vogue. While still a student, he received British Vogue’s “Best up-and-coming Photographer” award in 1992, along with the opportunity to contribute both fashion and portrait images to the magazine. (more…)

Vee Speers. The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party is a collection of children’s portraits.  Vee Speers has stripped away the stereotypes of childhood in a far cry from the usual idealisation of the ‘happiest days of our lives’. She reveals the cruelty, vulnerability and duplicity of children. She captures children happy to play with imperfection and embrace the grotesque; children with a sense of danger and disregard for the social expectations of a birthday party smile. The resulting visuals are unsettling, with a transparency that is neither black and white nor colour, and the humanity neither that of an adult nor of a child. (more…)

Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom is a photographic artist who specializes in evocative images of the natural world. Born in South Africa, he first used the camera to document life there during the seventies. He moved to England in 1977, where he worked in the graphic arts industry for many years. In the early nineties, during a visit to South Africa, his interest in wildlife photography emerged, and within a short time he had swapped his established career for the precarious life of a wildlife photographer. Such a move demands an added measure of uncompromising passion and commitment. He has won awards for his work and his pictures are seen around the world in calendars, posters, advertising, editorial features and a multitude of other products. His books have been published in fifteen languages. Professional Photographer Magazine described him as a ‘photographer at the leading edge who sets the agenda for the future’. (more…)

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Albert Watson

Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades, while creating his own art along the way. Over the years, his striking images have appeared on more than 250 covers of Vogue around the world and have been featured in countless other publications, from Rolling Stone to Time. Many of the photographs iconic portraits of rock stars, rappers, actors and other celebrities.

Albert also has created the photography for hundreds of successful advertising campaigns for major corporations, such as the Gap, Levi’s, Revlon and Chanel, and he has directed more than 600 TV commercials. All the while, Albert has spent much of his time working on personal projects, creating stunning images from his travels, from Marrakech to Las Vegas to the Orkneys. Much of this work, along with his well-known portraits and fashion photographs, has been featured in museum and gallery shows around the world. The photo industry bible, Photo District News, named Albert one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time. (more…)

Water portraits of Alex Ten Napel

Alex Ten Napel (1958, Alkmaar) lives and works in Amsterdam. Ten Napel studied at the School for Photography in The Hague. His autonomous work is frequently published in Dutch and foreign magazines and newspapers. He also works on commission for advertising agencies and magazines. Since 1996 he has had several solo and group exhibitions and has been frequently commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam and Utrecht. In 2005, his Waterportraits were exhibited at the Epson Photo Festival in the fortified town of Naarden, the Netherlands and at Paris Photo. Photos from the WATERPORTRAITS series were selected for Photography Now, One Hundred Portfolios, 2006, Dayton, USA; the Photographic Portrait Prize 2006, the National Portrait Gallery, London; Prix Photographique BMW-Paris Photo 2006, Paris.  (more…)

Henrik Adamsen

Henrik Adamsen is the fashion photographer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He shoot all his pictures on a Hasselblad H2 with a PhaseOne P30+ digital back. Henrik works mainly for designers, but He also does some beauty/hair stuff. You can see all of it in his portfolio. A tiny bit here. The rest is on his website. We find Henrik’s photography highly interesting, and We can definitely see that he benefitted from his experience in image creation, because his work reflects the quality and creativity of a true pro. We simply love his photography, and I’m excited to see what the future has in store for him. (more…)