From Where We Are . . . To Where We Once Were
Editorial Photography
From Where We Are . . .
To Where We Once Were
I spent years pitching story ideas to my managing editors at The Chicago Reporter at CBS Radio, and then in Italy when working for Vogue Italia, Donna & Bambini and The Face in London and I.D. Magazine.
Ideas, and production and shooting, have layers of interest: visual, conceptual, artistic, ephemeral and essential or elemental . . . or simply cliched or trite. Success with ambitious projects isn’t always there, but with so much to work with in our world, why would we choose to chase a cliche, or copy someone else?
From Where We Are . . . To Where We Once Were, was meant to comment on the gentrification of low rent areas, and the new money, and new world, and new constructions that replaced them. Visually, I wanted to question which had more emotional content? I ultimately moved it to Verve Fashion Magazine for publication.
The styling, we looking for boldness, sexiness, but strength and the intrinsic inter-relationship of what we wear, to who we are.
Hot In The City
Editorial Photography
HOT in the City
Hot in the City was originally published in Lovebite Magazine in London. Produced in New York City, I was working with a new team of stylist, make-up artist and wanted to present different views using the backdrop of New York.
As a producer, I am looking for stories that weave and cross themes and subjects with styling that sometimes echos, and sometimes clashes with the themes.I had wanted to emphasize the constant drive of a city at work. And when the stylist suggested swimwear for a shoot at a beach, I thought the city would create better contrast.
Shooting for a summer release, we wanted to bring beachwear into a different setting than a beach, and emphasize the curves of the human form against the hard structures of buildings.
Another Kind of Blue
Editorial Photography
Another . . .
Kind of Blue
Another Kind of Blue was conceived as a fashion story with reference to the name of an iconic album recorded in 1959 by Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue.
It was shot for Verve Fashion Magazine publication to be both pushing boundaries in today’s fashion with the styling, the hard blue tones and dark dramatic feel, yet having references to a different, classic time.
The blue coloration in the shoot had been something I had worked on for awhile exploring how far, how blue, how other colors, darkness and light would read on images. The idea of an almost monochromatic feel of color images had always attracted to me coming from a history of black and white imagery in photography.
