busyyyyshooooottting

While the economy is in the stinker and everything I make goes to the IRS, I have been having a great time shooting this year. I have had some really exciting assignments, but really I have been true to my craft and been staying on course. The photographs have been amazing, more people are seeing my work, becoming more global. Wow.. kinda cool. But in the end for me it's all about photography and exposing myself to those whom see my work.
I never go into specifics of whom I shot for and I probably never will. I don't brag about whom I shoot and whom I work for because it's just that bragging and I have no room for it. Like I said it's all about the photographs.

here a few recents.

a campaign coming out soon.. billboard material..


editorial...


latest cover

behind the scenes

I will never show my lighting or my style to you , but here is a little behind the scenes.. I got all prop/set guy out and built this masterpiece with the help of my lazy assistant.

Jan 09

On Jan 4th I left for a 5 weeks of back to back jobs, which I am in the middle of
at the moment. I thought I would take a minute and blog.
Off to San Diego for a week, than back in the city for a week, than off to Miami for a week, than back to NYC for a week and LA for a week, than back to NYC and than Miami again.
It's great to be busy,shooting editorial, shooting money jobs. I am very thankful everyday that I don't have to wait in line at the soup kitchen for food.

a few screen shots from the computer and a nice portrait of me.

Happy New Year 26 days late......

2009 is here in full force. Freezing in NYC, the heat is not working. I am wearing a jacket and gloves inside the house, typing my cold thoughts while thinking of being on a sailboat in the Bahamas or anyplace tropical and warm with cool blue waters.aahhh.

Back to reality. Obama is our Leader! thanks god!! Changes taking place daily. I read the news like a drunk craving alcohol. I want to be apart of my vote.
The economy is shit, my industry is being POUNDED! Everyone is out of work or freaking out. The massive photogs are bottom feeding. The newbies' are plugging away, they are poor and they have no overhead so shooting for peanuts is cool and paying to shoot editorial is just part of the game we play. magazines are folding, retails stores are closing, ad agencies are laying off. I am not painting a bleak picture, just stating the facts. I have friends in all aspects of the photo world. Everyone is feeling the crush. Than on top of it, the people that hire us are wanting clean images that are SAFE!
So when you want to pay the rent you gotta be safe. Easier said than done for those uf us who are a bit more creative and our style shows it.

Blah blah blah...just off the phone with an editor I am shooting with on Thursday. He was just saying how this will be a huge weeding out process, a change of the industry,
perhaps forever. he said he may have to find a new source of income and leave the industry he has been in for 2 decades.

ON ANOTHER NOTE--

Positivity! I feel like having Obama in office has given me a positive outlook on America for the first in my life. His drive to the top has inspired me!! I see the economy and the financial downturn, but I know there is still money to be made. If you can make it now, you can make it anytime.

tis the holidays

spent the past couple weeks doing an end of year clean up. Getting the clutter out and putting some new paint on the walls. Shredding paperwork and working on the taxes. Things that I never want to do...
In the middle of all this I had 3 shoots, we had a snowstorm, went to the Metropolitan Opera and saw La Bohéme, shopped for Christmas and made some cookies...

Some photographic Highlights below.ohhhhhh while organizing I found my Polaroid "Big Shot", the Andy Warhol camera. I have been shooting with it.. I will post some of those as soon as I scan them..

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

street castings

lately when I have a casting, I have been doing it in not normal places. makes it more exciting for a casting pic. This one on 5th ave in front of a deli. Can you guess who the girls are?

iggy through the loking glass

too long

I have been on the road since Obama was elected shooting more personal art work. On the plane, in a car, sleeping in dodggy hotels from time to time working on book ideas. here is a couple pics from the month.

OBAMA WINS!!!

MY VOTE COUNTED!!! OBAMA WON!!!

THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE.. CHANGE IS COMING AND AMERICA WILL BE GREAT ONCE AGAIN

WITH A TRUE VISIONARY FOR A LEADER!!!


Last night when the electoral votes passed 270 the streets of Harlem where I live erupted
with an electricity that I have never felt before... I stuck my head out of our windows and all you could hear was screaming and cheering. I put on my shoes and ran down to 125th st with my friends. As soon as we left the building the sound of happiness took over the night. People were in their pajamas in the streets dancing and singing songs of jubilation. Everywhere screaming, chanting "OBAMA OBAMA". "Obama won", "he did it" " we did it" Emotions running wild in a way I have never in my life witnessed. My words will never do justice to what I experienced or saw last night in Harlem.


It was like every NY sports team won championships on New Years Eve. A complete eruption of human spirit.


It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We are so HAPPY today!!!

the layout process

The layout process is never fun for me, I rather dislike it. I always want to shoot and than walk away and let my creative team take over. Does that ever fully work out? No. You have to be involved in the whole process after the shoot has happened. This photographs is a glimpse of art of my process. Page layout.. gotta love it

a trailer for my next editorial

thought I have another that will release in October. I loved this and wanted to share.

can you beileve a 3rd?

the only reason I lay this one down on ya is because I am shooting all week and my computers might totally die and it may be a tine bit of time before I can release more imagery. I wish I had more food photos! this will have to do.. another ad campaign image.



VOTE OBAMA

2 posts 1 day. weird for me.. just trying to play catch up not ketchup

another never seen image. I can't tell you when or where or how or why.
my secret and you will know soon enough. Just have a look. It's a shining moment for me. My craft is strong and the proof is here. I am hungry and gotta cook some pasta.
and please oh please vote Obama! The hairless mole man and tina fey can't be allowed in the white house. So tell everyone, vote Obama. Seriously

back in NYC

well I am back and let me tell ya, it's sometimes hard to comeback to the city after being gone for a few weeks. You have to pay bills,deposit checks, give your bookkeeper all the receipts, open up a huge stack of mail(which used to me fun, now it's not cool)
and think about paying the taxes. Ugh!! On top of it all you realize your laptop is starting to go downhill and your big computer has totally died. You need a new MarkIII ad the one you just bought broke on the 2nd day of shooting. Do you hear me.. Sometimes it all go to shit and that's life. I say "F*ck it" it's not the end of the world especially when you shot non stop campaign and editorial that ROCKS.
A sneak preview of one.... and remember this is my polaroid, not the final

last burger in San Diego on friday

finished the week early on Friday. The city of San Diego hosted my week in California with the greatest weather conditions a photographer could ask for. It's always great when all the elements come together..
On Friday afternoon I had to run off to LA for an Ad campaign, but before I left I killed the jalapeno burger at the restaurant that I do not remember the name of.. Some brewery named after a german guy.. kaiser something. Perhaps I am totally wrong, but I am tired and this is about my burger and the photograph.
I love photographing my half eaten plates.. Perhaps a book idea? or a gallery show?

not everyday you see a rinbow in manhattan

Out on Monday evening walking Iggy and Big, I stumbled up this vision.
A rainbow in NYC? How crazy. I think this is a first..
the small things in life make you smile

in Florida and made a stop at the Kenedy Space Center.

geek stop as I like to call it.. I was passing through and had to stop. Kennedy Space Center is an amazing place to visit once in your life or you can buy the year subscription and go anytime you want.. the total geek package I wanted to call it.
Be prepared for 5000 people from all walks of life at any given moment. Las Vegas minus the cigarette smoke and slot machines.
I was able to see where they launch the space shuttle and the various other rockets they have blasted off. The huge hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks they use fuel up the booster rockets. The 'crawler' that carries the shuttle to it's launch pad, what a work of engineering. Everything at the Space Center is really a marvel. At only 50 years old they have accomplished many feats of extraordinary brilliance. I am a huge fan of the space program and wish the rest of the Republicans were as well. Vote Obama and vote Democrat!
Enough Politics enjoy the pics...



TWO SHUTTLE LAUNCH PADS AND THE ROAD THE CRAWLER TAKES


VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING


BACKSIDE OF A SATURN V ROCKET


MASSIVE ENGINES


GIANT SUITCASE CARRYING EQUIPMENT TO THE SPACE STATION

busting into my archive

a little pic from a story I shot with Kemal Harris in upstate NY. We had an idea of an bdsm shoot in the woods. Our subject were two female models whom accepted their roll and acted it out perfectly. For me it was a chance to shoot with a sexual strength that I tended to shy away from.. Now I embrace it and love to have that energy in some of my work.

again with some new

Well it's been a moment and tons of things have happened since my last entry. I have made a promise to myself to update my blog more often. Perhaps I can find it within myself to update daily on my adventures over the next few weeks.. We will see. Until than let's just drop something new down.. Just shot

just back from the "bu"

what Jamie Kennedy called the "Bu" is where I just returned... Spending a couple days in the nice weather in Cali was just what the Dr. ordered. Ahh, not for pleasure unfortunately. I was hired to re-image a couple brands that my great friend is now the VP. I will be hush hush on the names and labels since most (photographers) are out to steal anything job possible these days.
We shot at Harry Gesner's house in Malibu. Harry is an amazing man who is a retired famed architect living the good life of surf and beach. His house or rather compound is a piece of art that he designed and built. Next door he designed a home for Carey Grant. Kinda a cool til he started talking about Tahiti and Marlon Brando and than I realized he is no joke. It made me want to do his documentary and coffee table book. I must return to Malibu soon to find out more about this famed architect.
Now I am back in NYC for a day before my next adventure... I leave you with a couple pics.