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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New Representation – Contour Style
I’m happy to announce that Contour Style is now representing some of my work, mostly in the Beauty, Fashion & lifestyle category.
This is a wonderful expansion of the representation I already have at Contour Photo, who take my celebrity portraiture and put it into syndication. Syndication is essentially distribution to newspapers, magazines and other publications.
You can browse the Contour Style collection here.
Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010 – Spring/Summer 2011
It’s only fashion but I like it.
I flew to Denmark for the second time in 2 months to cover Copenhagen Fashion Week for Getty Images and Wireimage. There’s something incredibly clean and crisp about Nordic design – I’m drawn to it. The Danes and their scandinavian companions tend to pull off some interesting shows, there’s a snapshot of that in the video below. There’s a lot more if you head over to wireimage.com and search for ‘Felix Kunze Copenhagen’.
Fashion week is 12 hour days of shooting one show after the other, lots of editing and uploads to the agency during the night, very little sleep, many turned down invitations to parties and a lot of mad fun on the press bus that takes us from show to show.
Apart from the interesting talent on show, notable at Fashion week were: the grace of Crown Princes Mary of Denmark, the appearance of fashion regulars such as James Goldstein (seen in the video wearing a cowboy-like hat), The Worlds Greatest Catwalk – a Guinness world records attempt for the longest catwalk, hosted by danish supermodel Helena Christensen with entertainment by Mads Langer and the general atmosphere in the crowd and around Copenhagen. I think the below gives a good glimpse of the atmosphere at the show.
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Portraiture – May and June 2010
My recent efforts have been in the area of doing documentary style photography like my projects in Haiti and coverage of the Roskilde Music Festival while also developing what I am doing in the field of portraiture. This is a little showcase of some of the work over the last few months. This doesn’t include work shot for magazine editorials of which there are a couple that I can’t wait to show! But they have to wait until they have gone into print.
I’ve been working to shoot portraiture that was strong and meaningful and also working in environmental portraiture, IE people in a work or life situation. Essentially a picture that tells a story about a person.
In a way, each of the images below does communicate a part of each person’s persona. A model still communicates a certain aspect of their own personality, no matter how much make-up is thrown on them, they are always putting across an aspect of their personality. There is a certain truth to it.
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Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Models: Mia Gerhardt and Raph Schweiter - Hair, Make-up and Styling: Sally Gatza & Natalie Johnson - Location: Florida
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Styling: Sally Gatza
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Hair & Styling: Sally Gatza
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Hair & Styling: Sally Gatza
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Kevin Patrick, Clearwater Beach - shot for publicity purposes
Hair & Make-up: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) - Styling & Concept: Gina Manecchia & Taylor Kugler
Personal commission, Tampa Bay
Personal commission, Florida - publicity shoot
Personal commission, Florida - Make-up: Natalie Johnson
Kristel Koehler, poet - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton, www.femmeakoi.com - publicity shoot
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
For other projects, check out my work in Roskilde or Haiti or the Portrait portfolio. And if you like this and would like to be kept up to date on what I’m doing, please head over to my facebook page.
It’s all about the bag
And of course the private jet was a feature of this shoot.
We had wanted to shoot with a plane and had talked about the setting something up, had chosen the wardrobe, the accessories and were working on actually getting access to the plane. It all fell together at the last moment and we shot for about an hour before boarding and flying to Belize.
The great thing about this shoot was that despite what I thought would occur, we had the ability to move the plane over a fairly large area, to enable us to shoot with the right light. The ground staff have the ability to move the aircraft in any direction on the tarmac, and I was directing it as if it was a model, what a load of fun!
Technically the shoot was fairly simple, I placed a large reflector to reflect white onto the bag and highlight it a bit, we realized quickly that we had to get all of the aircraft into the sunlight and have the sun shining onto the subject.
The bag is Dolce & Gabbana, the rest are items from the personal wardrobe of the client.
If you like this type of content, check out the rest of my recent fashion work.
Marilyn
By now you’ll have figured out that I’m posting a bunch of fashion/lifestyle images taken on my recent trip to Mexico and the Caribbean. This is one of my favorites, I’m calling it simply ‘Marilyn’.
The dress is Roberto Cavalli, taken on a yacht off Tabacco Caye in the Barrier reef of Belize. We couldn’t have asked for more perfect conditions – the wind worked, the light worked and we had a great time, as usual.
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Another beauty from the yacht – Beautiful flowing dress
This was taken during a shoot on the super-yacht we were on, we found a perfect combination of climatic conditions – a cool breeze, a clear day and the perfect temperature. I wanted a bit of movement in the dress and we wanted warm evening light. I shot with a wide lens to get the model to look even taller and accentuate the flowing nature of the dress. I think the composition really worked to achieve the ‘towering’ effect.
Huasteca – 1964 Chevrolet
Huasteca is a mountainous desert-type area just outside the city of Monterrey in Northern Mexico. It was probably one of my favorite shoots ever.
The production was largely done by the model, we arranged the car, the location – it was a dream combination. We picked out the jewellery to match the Azur Chevy and the clothes to fit the location after having scouted it on the day I arrived to Mexico.
Beauty in Motion & Happy New Year
Here’s something a little different for New Year’s Eve.
This was shot on one of the southern islands of Belize’s Glovers Reef. Fun fact: Did you know that Belize’s Barrier Reef is the 2nd largest in the world, only Australia’s Great Barrier reef is larger.
We had just finished shooting a bunch of lifestyle shots on the island (which has no inhabitants) and were walking back to the jet-ski (yep, I transported my gear on a jet-ski!) when I turned around and saw the silhouette. I asked Barbara to do some graceful poses, the result is included below.
With that, I also wanted to say Happy New Year to all those who come across my site, it’s been a great year and I’m very excited for 2010.
Tobacco Caye Water
Here’s another shot involving my recent client and water.
There’s a black and white companion image, where her eyes are open, it’s quite stunning – I’ll try post it here in the next couple of days.
Caribbean Rocks
We shot this in the breakwater rocks off a deserted little Island in Glovers Reef, Belize.
The model is doing a priceless job here. You’d never guess that the rocks she’s balancing on are not the soft, smooth pebbles they are pretending to be, oh no, they are ragged, hard, spiky rocks, working their way slowly but surely into the skin of my client!
Water, Beauty
This one is from a shoot a couple of days ago. We shot after lunch in shallow water near Tabacco Caye in Belize, where we were anchored. It’s an absolutely beautiful location.
Mountain Jewellery
Taken in the mountains of Northern Mexico about 7 days ago. The car is a 1964 Turquoise Chevrolet.
Large version here, more images from this shoot coming in the next few days.
On ‘Chosen One’
Shot on the 120 foot yacht ‘Chosen One’ near Tabacco Cay, Belize on 8 December 2009.
Large version here.
Royal Cave
Large here
