Nude

I recently worked on a shoot with stylist, Krissie Torgerson.  We did a story using nude clothing and colorful accessories.  Petie, the blonde is from Ford, and Hannah, the brunette is from Photogenics.  Elizabeth Mbousia did makeup and hair.  Enjoy!

Advocate.com Artist Spotlight: Check me out

What a great X-Mas present!  Advocate.com did an artist spotlight on me.  I hope you can check it out.

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Gregory Michael

I photographed Gregory Michael, from Greek on ABC Family, for some promos recently.

Alex and Chloe

I shot the Alex and Chloe website again a couple weeks back. I love working with these guys.

New Orleans

My husband and I recently took a trip to New Orleans. I brought my Hasselblad with some old expired film I had sitting around as well as my Lumix. I thought I'd take a couple rolls of film to supplement the thousands of digital shots I usually snapped. I figured since it's New Orleans, I owed it to myself to shoot film. When I arrived, and my digital camera's battery was drained, I was surprised to see I hadn't brought my charger. I tried to buy one, but $40 for a $10 charger seemed a little extreme. It was a rather happy accident as I was now free to shoot solely with my Has. I shot 12 rolls of 120, but could shot so much more. I had forgotten how expensive it was to process film! I miss the good ol days of running hundreds of rolls of film for free at school. It was great being forced to consider what I was shooting and having to take a breath before just pointing a digital and firing away. I think I saw a lot more of New Orleans with my film camera as opposed to my digital, and I ended up with some really beautiful color shifts from the expired film. Here are a few shots.

The Object Look Book

Here are some out-takes from a look book I shot for The Object. I shot way too much and had way too many images to edit from...I miss film, but I love these shots.

Erin

Erin is like a pixie. I saw her spinning fire poi one time and the light on her face was amazing. I had to photograph her.
When I got to her place, she showed me her giant costume rack, and there was construction going on. Shes such a funny girl, we had to have a little fun.

Marion

A while back, I shot with makeup artist, Paul Castro from A.I.M. agency on a beauty test with Marion from Ford. We wanted something super clean and basic.

It's been a while...here's an out-take

Things have been pretty busy around here...happily. I've been working on several personal shoots and I've been doing a lot of look books too. Here is a shot I did during a recent look book shoot.

His friends call him G-Spot

My favorite story of Greg's was about how he if he ever had a name tattooed over his heart, it would have to be his own.  Since he didn't want to seem too self centered, he had his nickname tattooed there instead...G-Spot.  My favorite tattoo of Greg's must be the flamingo's in place of the more traditional Sparrows on his chest.  I photographed Greg, who works at High Voltage and can be seen on LA Ink, with my Hasselblad and printed this image in the darkroom.  Oh, I just love being in the darkroom with those smelly chemicals. 

I've been included in Dan Cooney's Auction

I've been privileged enough to have this photograph included in an auction of emerging photographers and artists put on by Dan Cooney of Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York.  You can take a look at my photograph for auction by clicking here:

Out Magazine - June 2009 - Gregory Michael

Here is my latest portrait for Out Magazine.  Gregory Michael is currently on the show Greek. We had a great time shooting this for the June issue.  

Nico Muhly on East Village Boys

I recently photographed Nico Muhly for East Village Boys.  Nico is an amazing composer who recently wrote the score for the movie The Reader.  Here are some images from our shoot as well as a link to the story.

http://www.eastvillageboys.com

Now in color...well one of two...

Single Light, High Contrast Portraits

I've been wanting to do a black and white shoot with a single light and more contrast than I'd normally use.  I wanted to really concentrate on shapes, posture and mood, keeping the portraits very simple and beautiful.  

Paper Magazine - Feb 2009

I photographed this amazing artist, Pearl Hsiung, based in Los Angeles for this month's issue of Paper Magazine. I also included a few out-takes from the shoot.  

New Work from 2008

These are out-takes from a shoot I did with Alex & Chloe, jewelry and t-shirt designer.   Simplicity is so beautiful to me.  I chose to share these images because they range from sexy to quirky.  Two of my favorites.  

December 2008: The Advocate

Here is a shot I did for The Advocate last time I was in New York.   I really love shooting in New York.  Its like - walk outside and boom - instant awesome location. 

This is Perry Moore and Hunter Hill.  They co-directed  the film Lake City.  Really great guys.  Super kind.  The out-take I included is one of my favorites in a while.  It was just a test shot, but it really shows this teams diversity with Perry's effervescent attitude and Hunters cool calm and collected demeanor.

December/January 2008/2009: Paper Magazine

Billy Raftery is the founder of childrenrise.com and created the film Give Us This Day, a five year long journey documenting the street kids of Durban.  

My image leads off the portfolio and story of 2008 DoGooders.  

We shot this on a small street in Santa Monica.  I've included the lower image which was an out-take.  

January 2009: Orange Coast Magazine

Here is a page and some out-takes that I shot for January's Orange Coast Magazine.  

It was a low key shoot with natural light from the giant windows in front and a little flash fill.  

The accessories I shot outside in a white tent.  The ladies were rad and all their stuff was really beautiful.  It was all very organic and green which was awesome.