The eyewear brand Foster Grant has been around for over a century, outfitting Americans with high-quality reading glasses, sunglasses, and now blue light glasses. Originally a women’s hair accessory company, Foster Grant began using celluloid technology in 1919 to manufacture imitation ivory and tortoiseshell products—first in hair combs and clips, and then, after procuring the first injection molding machine to be imported from Europe, in eyewear frames.
Read More“Big brand, big photo studio, big images. It’s sweet to be invited to that party—that’s for sure,” says Annabelle Breakey, reflecting on her recent work for McDonald’s. Last November, Breakey traveled to Chicago, home of the Golden Arches, to shoot Crispy Chicken Sandwich and McPlant (McDonald’s proprietary plant-based patty) campaigns—her third job for the legendary international brand, and her first trip to McDonald’s HQ.
Read More“For me, the beach is home,” says photographer Shaun Fenn, reflecting on the natural ease of a recent photo shoot on Laguna Beach for the Santa Monica-based textile brand Shoo for Good. “I’m very comfortable on the beach, as was our client. We did our homework upfront, which allowed everyone to be relaxed on set in alignment with the product.”
Read MoreOne of the greatest achievements in the world of professional dance is the ability to make physical and mental rigor look effortless. Dancers combine untold hours of training, rehearsing, and personal tenacity to embody what we often simply call grace—as though their abilities were god-given rather than worked for tirelessly.
Read MoreCongratulations to Christopher Wilson for winning a stunning 12 Gold and Silver awards in the Graphis 2022 Photography Annual. Today, we are showcasing just one of those award winning series, shot for Walter Magazine and titled Fallen Light. When I asked Christopher about this shoot, here is what he had to say.
Read MoreThere may be no better way of breaking down cultural and linguistic barriers than by putting a musical instrument in someone’s hands. Photographer Shaun Fenn surely found this to be true in his recent portrait series of mariachi musicians and dancers, which he shot over the course of a week traveling through Todos Santos, La Paz, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. This was a personal project for Fenn, and one that ended up being an emotional antidote to a year of COVID-related strain. “You can’t sit and listen to mariachi and not be happy,” Fenn shares.
Read MorePhotographer Michael Prince photographed Moderna chairman Noubar Afeyan—one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial science leaders of our time—at his offices at Flagship Pioneering in Boston. The photograph was used as one of five covers that Forbes commissioned for the 40th Annual Forbes 400 edition, and is Prince’s fifth cover for Forbes this year. Congratulations to Afeyan and Prince alike for receiving their due recognition.
Read MoreSeldom do many of us stop to think about how the images on food packaging come to be there. As consumers, we take for granted that dozens of bags of chips line a grocery store shelf, as if divined without the involvement of dozens of hands and minds. Having recently gone through an extensive visual-systems rebrand with Lay’s, photographer Annabelle Breakey knows this isn’t so—she knows exactly how the chips fall.
Read MoreRandal Ford’s love of portraiture began when he was a photojournalism student at Texas A&M. “I just fell in love,” he says. “I fell in love with creating a picture versus taking a picture. And I fell in love with working with the person on the other side of the camera to capture their likeness.” It was during these initial forays into the field that Ford saw Richard Avedon’s In the American West exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, and in Avedon, Ford recognized how a distinct aesthetic edge could bring narrative and image even closer together.
Read MoreFinally sharing some images and BTS from a recent project of Mathew Turley’s, shooting agriculture for one of BASF’s new products. Thanks to Annie Henley and VMLY&R for the assignment!
Read MoreFewer things are more telling of a city’s culture than its food, and, like most things in Texas, the flavors in Dallas are big, and getting bigger. In 2019 the city was named Bon Appetit’s Best Restaurant City of the Year, and photographer Randal Ford was brought in to capture those wielding the knives and spices—Dallas’s “finest in chef-driven cuisine”—and the culinary creations they’re cooking up.
Read MoreAnnabelle Breakey isn’t shy about her love of photographing fast food. Her foray into the field of French fries and Frappuccinos began in 2000 (with first clients being Burger King and Starbucks) after the dot-com bubble burst and her previous high-tech and product catalog work was stymied. “When the implosion happened, I was like, that’s it, I'm only going to shoot beautiful things and work with interesting stylists,” she remembers. “That’s when I started shooting food and editorial, and now I’m in the lane of super fun, colorful, conceptual food.”
Read More“We were trying to capture the essence of the place,” explains photographer Matthew Turley of his recent work shooting stills for Maine Tourism. Essence may be a singular noun, but what Turley’s photos of the northeastern-most tip of the country reveal is that the quintessential nature of a place is found in its multitudes. A wild mix of elements at the edge of the continent—of landscapes, foods, trades, cultures, ecologies, and lives lived—is what makes Maine inimitable.
Read MoreWelcome to Randal Ford’s Shag Palace, where Norman Rockwell meets Richard Avedon meets Wes Anderson. Where things are a little bit psychedelic, a little bit trippy, a little bit bizarre. Portraiture and lifestyle photography are familiar to Ford, but in the case of this particular personal project, the more unfamiliar the lifestyle, the more fantastic the portraits.
Read MoreFor an enterprise technology company, every client has their own umbrella of unique needs. The ability to assess, service and scale with each of them is key, so when Shaun Fenn was approached to create a library of images showcasing Spectrum’s capabilities, he knew that a sleek collection of real-world scenarios would be needed.
Read MoreWhen it comes to the world of vitamins and supplements, Olly is in a universe all its own. “They come to me once or twice a year for a new product launch,” explains photographer Annabelle Breakey, “and every time they do, they up the ante a little bit. The photography becomes more and more stylized. More and more Olly.”
Read MoreA piece of art offers a window into another world, transporting the onlooker into a frozen moment of sublimity, awe, fantasy, reverence, or empowerment. By placing artwork in the spaces we inhabit, we make the world of home feel more like our own, offering ourselves excursions of mind and spirit as a reprieve from the chaos of reality, or an antidote to the mundanity of daily life. At Redbubble, the online marketplace where independent artists can create goods showcasing their work, the belief in art’s ability to positively affect our experience and expand our worldview is taken seriously—but not so seriously they miss out on the fun of it.
Read MorePhotographer Michael Prince’s Forbes cover shot of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss was sold as an NFT (non-fungible token) at auction for $333,333.00 on April 8, 2021. Prince’s portrait of the billionaire tech twins was made into the one-of-a-kind digital artwork titled “Merchants of the Metaverse” by contemporary artist Yoshi Sodeoka.
Read MoreCathedrals to cod. This is how photographer Christopher Wilson describes the A-frame structures dotting the coastlines of Norway’s Lofoten Islands. Wilson spent a few weeks in these most northern reaches of the world (the islands are above the Arctic Circle) last spring; he and fellow photographer Mark Katzman were there to photograph the tongue-cutters, or tungeskjærerne—Norwegian children who follow the centuries-long tradition of cutting out cod tongue to sell as a delicacy.
Read MoreThese aren’t the first faces Randal Ford has captured in a moment of elation. The commercial photographer’s signature approach to portraiture and lifestyle shots can be seen across his portfolio. Human expression is at the fore of his work, and the particularities of a person (or dog, chimp, or exotic bird, as it may be) are often cast in settings as unique as their subjects.
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