In Julia’s most recent project, “Mothers and Daughters,” she portrays the complex and sometimes challenging relationships between a mother and daughter.  It is both documentary and biographical in nature, as it illustrates memories of her, and her two sisters’, relationships with their mother, and even her mother’s relationship with her mother.  Julia cast 20 real mother and daughter pairs and shot them in their own environments.

Click Here to see more work from this series.  Click Here for Julia’s personal site to read the Artists Statement.

“Of the nearly 800 prisoners who have been detained in Guantánamo for any period of time, the great majority are no longer there. Most have simply been released and today live in their native countries or in some other country that will give them a home. The award-winning photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, who divide their time between New York and Zurich, set out to take portraits of many of the former detainees, seeking them out in locales from London to Cairo, Tiranë to Sydney.”

Click Here to read more from Vanity Fair.  Click Here to see more work by Braschler/Fischer

Sami al‐Laithi (Egyptian), I.S.N. 287.
Detained in 2001; transferred to Egypt in 2005.
Photographed in Cairo, 2010.

Lahcen Ikassrien (Moroccan), I.S.N. 72.
Detained in 2001; extradited to Spain in 2005; released in 2006.
Photographed in Madrid, 2011.

Khaled ben Mustapha (French/Tunisian), I.S.N. 236.
Detained in 2001; released in 2005.
Photographed in Paris, 2011.

Mohammed al‐Gharani (Chadian), Internment Serial Number (I.S.N.) 269.
Detained in 2001; released in 2009.
Photographed in N’Djamena, Chad, 2011.

Martin traveled to the annual “Twins Days Festival” in Twinsburg, Ohio, to shoot pairs of identical twins for National Geographic Magazine.  By using his signature Close-Up style, the portraits allow the viewer to explore the physical similarities between the pairs, complementing the story, which covered their psychological similarities.  National Geographic featured these images side by side in a fold out spread and on the cover.

Click Here to see the story on the National Geographic site.  Click Here to see more work by Martin

VAUGHAN HANNIGAN announces that Erik Almås has joined the agency.

Restless, driven, and always pushing himself toward a new means of technical and aesthetic expression, Erik has made a name for himself creating award-winning imagery for esteemed clients worldwide.  His images, often contextualizing people or products, exist in timeless, hyper realistic twilight panoramas, engaging the viewer’s imagination and sense of wonder. Erik is able to utilize digital technologies as an extension of his style, delivering bespoke images that are a true representation of his photographic vision. In addition to countless commercial assignments, Erik collaborates with Art Directors and Photo Editors on fashion, editorial, travel and fine art projects, bringing his unique artistic sensibilities to any work he creates.

Click Here to see more work by Erik.

Gilles & Cecile Studio designed the below illustration to be printed and folded into an origami holiday decoration.  If you would like to fold one for yourself, drag the image below to your desktop, print 2 copies and follow the step by step instruction on how to assemble this unit origami holiday ornament below.

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1. Print two copies
2. With the color side up, valley fold and unfold across the diagonals. Turn paper over.
3. With the white side up, valley fold left to right and unfold.
4. Valley fold top to bottom.
5. Hold the paper along the fold made in step 3 and push them together. Continue to collapse until you get a square shape that has two layers on the left and two layers on the right (this is called the preliminary base).
6. Lift one layer from left side and squash down (this is called the squash fold). The top layer should look like a kite.
7. Flip the right half of the kite towards the left.
8. Repeat steps 5 and 6 on the right layer.
9. Turn over and repeat steps 5 through 7.
10. Completed unit should look like a kite with 4 layers on the left and 4 layers on the right.
11. Repeat steps 1 through 8 on another sheet of paper.
12. On the top layer,flip one layer from left to right. On the bottom layer, flip one layer right to left.
13. The unit should still have 4 layers on the left and 4 layers on the right side. It will look like a kite with a visible split.

Assemble the two units by tucking-in the flaps from one unit into the pockets of the second unit. Ideally, there should be 8 tucks to complete the assembly process.

Tips: Be patient and fiddle with it a little. You may need to rotate the model around and around to redo tucks that have come undone.

Model is relatively stable and does not need glue. Glue is recommended if you do not want the model to be disassembled by curious admirers.

Directions from: Origami-Resource-Center.com

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Thank you for a great 2011 and we are looking forward to a fruitful 2012!

In Lieu of gifts this holiday season, VAUGHAN HANNIGAN has made a donation to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

From everyone at VAUGHAN HANNIGAN

Last month outspoken Russian activist Alexei Navalny flew to New York for a photo shoot with Martin Schoeller.  Alexei, an opponent of political corruption in Russian, has been mobilizing the younger generations in Russia through social networking and blogging.  For this, his image has been featured on the cover of Russian Esquire this month.  A week ago, Alexei was arrested at a 5,000 person anti-Kremlin protest he organized and sentenced to 15 days in prison.  Politically conscious Russians have taken to the streets, using Martin’s images from Esquire in sign of solidarity with the imprisoned Navalny.

Click Here to read more from the New York Times.  Click Here to see more images by Martin Schoeller.

Photos: Yuri Maltsev and Alexander Demianchuk for Reuters, New York Times, Martin Schoeller & Esquire Russia

VAUGHAN HANNIGAN is happy to announce the addition of Floto+Warner to the roster.

Floto+Warner are celebrated for their incisive rendering of modern architecture, industrial spaces and landscape photographs, offering fresh insights into the relation of place, figure and form. With 10 years experience as a team, they bring a singular vision to every shoot they encounter.  Whether running multiple sets while directing motion spots and still ads for Volkswagen or starting on opposite ends of the map to cover a 675 mile yard sale for TIME magazine, the two share the same aesthetic sensibility that is unmistakably their own.

Click Here to see more work by Floto+Warner.

This month Giles was featured in Audubon Magazine regarding his leaf photos. A portion of the text is below but Click Here to read more.

“There’s something so satisfying about crunching through fallen leaves, hearing them crackle as they’re pulverized underfoot. Yet next time you see a carpet of leaves, or even a smattering of just a few, take a look before leaping: You might spy one of nature’s ephemeral art displays—a decaying leaf, like this one, photographed by Giles Revell.

“He wasn’t far from his house when Revell discovered several of these botanical skeletons and decided to shoot a series. Ghosts of their former selves, the leaves “almost look manmade when they’re in hand,” he says. “They’re like organic wire meshes.” From their unpredictable folds and fine, labyrinthine veins, familiar forms emerge—landscapes, coastlines, rivers. Simply put, the leaves are “lovely things,” says Revell.”

Click Here to see more photos by Giles.

It’s the 7th of December and the temperature peaked at 62 F yesterday in New York City. If you think that something is a bit strange with our climate these days, you are probably not the only one.

Appropriately, Braschler/Fischer’s latest book, THE HUMAN FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, was released last week in the US. Traveling the globe, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer have shot portraits of people adapting to new climatic realities. Each image is paired with an interview in which their subjects describe how a changing climate has affected them, their families and their lives.

Click Here to visit the publisher’s site.  Click Here to learn more about the making of this book

Click Here to see more work by Braschler/Fischer

Mama Saranyro, Member of the nomadic Bozo Tribe/Fisherman, Salamandaga, Lac Korientze, Mali

Christine Powell, Wildfire Victim, Santa Barbara, California, United States

Rinchen Wangail, Phuntsok Amgmo, and son, Tsewang Tobjor, Farmers, Nubra Valley Ladakh, India

Miguel Angle Casares Camps & Miquel Casares Cortina, Farmers, Valencia, Spain

Julia has been busy lately shooting campaigns for a number of pharmaceutical companies in both the US and UK.  CAHG commissioned her to shoot large groups of children and teens in various school locations in the New York area for Merck’s chicken pox vaccination, Varivax.  McCann had Julia shooting crumbling bodies for GlaxoSmithKline’s drug Kivexa, a new HIV medication.

Click Here to see more work by Julia.

Client: Varivax        Agency: CAHG

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Client: Kivexa        Agency: McCann