Excited to share this fun collaboration between Randal Ford and Adobe! To see more of Randal’s work, head over to his site.
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“I love making promos, it’s like making a record album,” says photographer Annabelle Breakey. She’s been in the practice of creating promos—printed booklets showcasing a series of photographs relating to a particular theme—for close to a decade. Some of her earlier promos, which are all under the title Plenty, are The Guilty Pleasures Issue, The Black and White Issue, and, in celebration of all things ovular, The Egg Issue. Her latest is The Latin Issue, which coheres a handful of colorful and purposefully messy images of foods from south of the border. “Promos let me explore a theme from every direction and then form it into one complete thought,” Breakey explains.
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One of the country’s largest states, California is home to colossal redwood forests, thriving metropolises, high desert super blooms, cliffside bohemian enclaves, nearly the entire entertainment industry, and some of the world’s best food and wine. With a reputation as big and storied as all it contains, California needs no help attracting tourists. But what about when it comes to accommodating business gatherings?
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While many of us spend the winter months bemoaning the cold weather and counting down the days until spring, Minnesotans are playing pond hockey.
Huddling up on small, neighborhood ponds where the ice is continually undulating under foot to play hockey, northern communities know how to keep the winter doldrums at bay. And capturing the sport, a derivative of traditional hockey played at a smaller scale, had been on photographer Shaun Fenn’s project wish list for some time.
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Many hands make light work, and in the case of a recent rare collaboration between MCA photographers Annabelle Breakey and Randal Ford, it also makes for a lot of creativity and fun.
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RJ Muna is not only known for his gravity-defying shots of contemporary ballet dancers in flight—he’s loved for them. Last week, the Graphis Photography Awards announced Muna as the recipient of a windfall: eight awards in Platinum, Gold, and Silver, and his image for Alonzo King LINES Ballet adorning the 2023 Graphis Photography book cover.
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The holidays are full of scents that spur emotion and nostalgia. A fresh-cut Christmas tree, a simmering pot of mulled wine, the sharp snap of a peppermint stick—there’s nothing like the power of scent to awaken your merry memories and set the stage for new ones. This year, deodorant and body care brand Native took favorite yuletide fragrances and, checking them twice, made their lists for Naughty and Nice.
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What’s more fun than a pair of Crocs? How about a pair of Crocs bedazzled with limited-edition Jibbitz and worn by the legendary Jonathan Van Ness? Getting warmer. A pair of Crocs worn by Jonathan Van Ness and an utterly adorable litter of puppies? In the words of the lovable Queer Eye star himself: Yass!
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A beautiful story always begins with wreckage. That is why we burned our maps, and toppled all our lighthouses and cathedrals to certainty; and became nothing but Phoenix ash and feathers, with only broken hearts for our broken Earth alive and beating.
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Today on the blog, we are sharing a personal project shot by Margaret Lampert. Read below to hear the inspiration for this series, in Margaret’s words.
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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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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One 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.
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Congratulations 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.
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There 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.
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Photographer 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.
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Seldom 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.
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Randal 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.
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Finally 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!
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