Allison's Headshots

Allison is an aspiring actress with a bright future. I've known her for a few years but it wasn't until last week that she finally entrusted me to shoot some headshots for her. We drove down to Brooklyn's secluded but edgily beautiful Vinegar Hill neighborhood to shoot and I think her shots turned out very well indeed!

    

Platinum Dirt Fashion Shoot

Platinum Dirt is a high end leather goods design company with a difference. Someone had the wonderful idea of re-using the leather from the interiors of scrapped cars to make jackets and bags. The implications for style are obvious. The jackets look severely cool with the VIN plate of the car from which they were made on the chest and authentic details such as quilting and in the case of Cadillac jackets the embroidered logo found on the car seats. The emblems from the car hoods (Those in the UK read: bonnets) are repurposed as zipper pulls.

The other side of these edgy-looking fashion pieces is that no new cows must be killed for their manufacture which means less pollution from animal waste and tanning chemicals and sets the minds of vegetarians at rest!

Anyway, The designers were in town a couple of weeks ago and we arranged an impromptu fashion shoot in SoHo, Tribecca and Battery park city. I had a great time hanging out with the guys and getting some great shots.   

The brains behind the whole operation Pose for a PR shot.

Irina Shabeyeva's Spring Collection at New York Fashion Week

It's fashion week in New York City again and I was privileged to be in the media pit for Irina Shabeyeva of Project Runway fame's show. She presented a huge collection of spring looks (I believe over 50 of them) and, in my uneducated opinion, came up with some absolutely beautiful stuff!

Stacey and Adam's wedding

What a wonderful, romantic and low key wedding! Stacey and Adam chose to do things very simply and very intimately in Riverside Park with just a few friends and family present. Nature was on their side too, giving them a beautiful early summer day. Just the right temperature and no humidity at all.

I love that I got to take some portraits of Stacey in her wedding gown on the steps up to the Soldier's and Sailor's monument. It's been one of my favorite locations since I realized that it's the very same staircase that Scarlett Johansson is seen running down as Cinderella in Annie Leibovitz's iconic shot for Disney!

Bettina's Headshots

I've always been a little wary of shooting actor's headshots on a plain grey backdrop. It seemed like it would be too easy to come up with something that just looked like a mug shot. For Bettina's headshots I decided to give it a go for two reasons. One; her favorite shot of grace Kelly is on a grey background and she really wanted to recreate some of that feel and two; we decided to shoot in her apartment for the beautiful window light but the background would've been much too cluttered if I didn't bring something in.

I love the final shots, they have a certain style that standard actor's headshots rarely do but they are absolutely useable at an audition. It also helps that Bettina is very photogenic!

Designer Knitwear Fashion Shoot

Laura Zukaite Is a designer of beautiful knitwear and also a friend of mine. She designs for a top tier fashion company whilst also selling her designs as patterns via books she has written and now her website. Recently she was the winner of the Vogue Live knitting competition.

Recently we got together with our mutual friend Ashly acting as both stylist and model to capture some high fashion images of Laura's new collection. Here is a sampling of the results.