If you were wondering how Erik Almås creates his signature style in photos, the video below should answer some of your questions. In it, you can see one Erik’s images, “The Dock House,” get shot, composited and retouched in under 3 minutes.
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The “Fortune 500″ list was recently released and to illustrate it, Fortune Magazine commissioned Floto + Warner to create a portfolio of group shots highlighting some of their high-profile selects. Since none of the companies offered more than 15 minutes with their boards and all required pre-approval, each shot was carefully composed and concepted with the help of Fortune Deputy Photo Editor Alix Colow and Set Designer Peter Garagliano. Click on the name of the board below each photo to see the image larger.
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The New York Ballet Board of Directors
Earlier this month, Monika Fischer and Mathias Braschler, won the prestigious Hansel Mieth Prize for their photo essay on released GTMO prisoners. The Hansel Mieth Prize was established to recognize excellence in socially conscious photo features produced for German-language print media.
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Julia’s first New York solo exhibition opens at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York titled “Persona.” With an already established international reputation, this will be Fullerton-Batten’s first solo show in New York and her first with Jenkins Johnson Gallery. There will be an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, May 17th from 6 to 8 pm.
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“Persona features the world-premiere of Julia Fullerton-Batten’s new series Mothers & Daughters, her most recent exploration of the unique and difficult time of adolescence. The series, inspired by her and her sisters’ relationship with their mother, portrays the complex and sometimes challenging relationship between mothers and their daughters. She continues to work with street-cast, non-model subjects, whose subtle awkwardness and discomfort in front of the camera emphasizes the reality of the scenes. Her use of eerie artificial light gives the final photographs a theatrical, other-worldly atmosphere. In “The Party is Over,” Fullerton-Batten highlights the development of her teen figure and shows how the pair have progressed from childhood dependence on the mother to the first exertion of youthful independence. Through depiction of infant, adolescent, middle aged, and elderly subjects in this series, Fullerton-Batten showcases this reliance structure shifting throughout the lifespan of the mother-daughter relationship.
Further examining the complex relationships of adolescence is Fullerton-Batten’s Awkward series, also exhibiting in New York for the first time. In these works, Fullerton-Batten delves into interactions between the sexes, creating a sense of heightened stress. While there may be underlying sexual tension, largely hormonal, the teens lack the maturity to know how to handle their very adult impulses. This examination of interactions is similar to the photographer’s motivation in Mothers & Daughters, providing us with further insight into the lives of teenagers. Also featured in Persona are four works from Fullerton-Batten’s seminal 2005 series Teenage Stories, which documents the start of her study of teen girls. “Book,” “Broken Eggs,” “P&O,” and “Reflection in Water” are sold out prints available here for a limited time. These works have been extremely popular since their inclusion in Fullerton-Batten’s 2007 book Teenage Stories. In this series, she heightens and emphasizes the girls’ feelings of not belonging by photographing them as giants amid miniature villages. The pieces, while visually stunning, also capture the vulnerability of youth.
Thursday May 17th 2012
6pm – 8pm
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
521 West 26th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.629.0707
Martin Shot Julia Louise-Dreyfus for her new HBO show last December. Posters for the show, VEEP, were everywhere and over the past month in New York, you couldn’t miss them.
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Martin Schoeller shot this TIME Magazine cover last weekend for a story on attachment parenting. ‘In one day, Martin photographed four families from across the country who practice this method of motherhood. Using religious images of the Madonna and Child as reference, Schoeller captured each mother breast-feeding her child or children’
“When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids,” Schoeller says. “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline thepoint that this was an uncommon situation.”
UPDATE
Additional thoughts on the shoot in the Chicago Tribune
The LA Times discuses how the cover proves print is not dead.
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Bonhams will be hosting a charity auction May 17th to benefit NSPCC and its Rebuilding Childhoods Appeal – which provides therapy for children and young people who have suffered abuse. Martin, who donated a the below Closeup of Valentino, joins Kate Moss and other photographers Nadav Kander, Barry Lategan, and David Bailey in gifting prints to this worthy cause.
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This week Erik’s Credit Suisse work was featured on PDN Pulse
“Erik Almås says he prefers “crafting” images to “capturing” them. Working with ad agency Euro RSCG in London, Almås crafted an ad for Credit Suisse that features the eco-friendly Oxygen scooter, a Credit Suisse client.”
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