Niki Lanik & Ryan Elizabeth for Ben Minkoff
I shot this fashion editorial on a trip to Arizona via Las Vegas and the grand canyon. I commandeered my two good friends Niki and Ryan. Niki is a professional race car driver and works internationally to promote human rights. Ryan is his girlfriend. Both are my dear friends. We had a lot of fun on this trip.
Ben Minkoff is an off-shoot of Rebecca Minkoff’s line, catering specifically to men’s bags and accessories.
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Festival Annual 2011
The Festival Annual ‘11 book features a front cover by yours truly. It was taken during a particularly rowdy day at Reading Music Festival in August.
I shot the Glastonbury Festival and Reading Music Festival for Festival Annual this year, both of which are now a chapter in this amazing documentation of festival culture. This is the kind of book that is going to be cherished more and more with each passing generation. Mark my words!
I’ve included some of my favorite images from Reading Music Festival. For the rest, you’ll have to head over to the Festival Annual Facebook page and buy the book. If you ‘like’ the page, you’ll get a discount coupon for the book. It’s available for sale at the end of October 2011.
The demographic of Reading Music Festival is mostly middle class teenagers, who use the weekend to have a lot of (sometimes too much) fun. The group below are the guys who also ended up on the front cover on the book. I ran from one end of the site to the other to capture the malarky.
Tommy, Ashley, Max and the rest of the boys started bugging me pretty much the minute I left the festival and were hoping for the cover. They were duly rewarded. They also have a large spread in the book. The experience of shooting for Festival Annual is fairly interactive. I hand out cards all weekend, and most of the people I photograph end up interacting on the Festival Annual Facebook site. In a way, that makes it an even more rewarding experience.
Go ahead and ‘like’ the Festival Annual facebook page for more. Or follow my photo updates on my facebook page.
Haiti news – Guest spot on the Kerri Kasem Podcast
While in Haiti I had the great fortune of meeting the amazing Kerri Kasem, US radio personality extraordinaire.
She was there to do her bit to help. She stayed in a tent, she did what everyone else did and she got into all the stuff that celebrities usually stay away from. She helped deliver a baby, she was helping in the hospitals down in Haiti on the day she arrived. She basically just did the normal thing, ditched western conveniences and helped save lives.
I leave on my second trip to Haiti tomorrow. I’ll be working with thefutureofhaiti.org and helpfororphans.org and will do what I can to help both through photography and as a general citizen. We are heading into the Dominican Republic tomorrow to load of a truck with some supplies for the orphans and then we are driving into Haiti and straight to one of the Orphanages. I’ll also be covering some other areas, orphans isn’t the only area I’m concentrating on, but like last time, I’ll be concentrating on the good being done by the numerous volunteer organizations out there. To me, that’s what Haiti is about. It’s not about the death, it’s about the massive worldwide response and the light that is now being shone on a country that had major problems before the earthquake brought it into the foreground of the world’s attention.
When I come back from Haiti in just over a week, I’ll be making a quick stopover with some friends in Florida and then I’m flying straight to LA to be a guest on Kerri’s awesome podcast. I will share my experiences in Haiti and the work that’s being done with the orphans and in other areas to help the people of Haiti.
I’ll let you all know when the show is up, it’s usually about an hour long and I strongly suggest subscribing to her podcast, today’s podcast, mentioning my work in Haiti, is here:
Shooting with a disposable camera
With the advent of summer and my foray into watersports, I’ve taken to shooting with a waterproof disposable camera. I fall into the water far too frequently to take my DSLR anywhere near water.
There is something quite magical about purchasing a cheapo camera, snapping 27 exposures and taking them to the lab to get processed. The excitement we used to feel at getting film developed (or even finding an old roll of film somewhere) has all but disappeared with the digital revolution.
On my recent trip to Cambersands beach in the South of England, we took a batch of such photos. See the results below. Note the authentic ‘wrist-strap in front of lens’ look in a couple of these.