I couldn’t believe my ears when Forbes magazine asked me to photograph the famous 20×24 Polaroid Land camera.  This is the very same camera used by Andy Worhol, Lucas Samaras, David Levinthal, Chuck Close, etc.  Built by Polaroid in the 70s, when they went bust in 2008 John Rueter rescued the camera and the film stock and put them to work at  20×24 Studio.  You can see the Forbes piece here.  Thanks to Jennifer Trausch, Director of Photography, and John for their patience with me, letting me touch it, and posing for pictures.

I have been working on a new promo that I will send out in the fall called Babe. It’s a collection of my baby photographs in a 40 page magazine. I made it on MagCloud which is a great service, although quality control and customer service are a bit spotty. You can publish a magazine to their site and people can actually buy a copy.

Here is a preview of Babe:

I also made a magazine of my personal work 2 years ago.  You can preview or purchase either of them on the MagCloud site by clicking the links below.

Check out this shoot I did for Monique Perreault and Casey Levine of Kids With Candy.  It’s an animal fashion show featuring pet bling by Stephanie Jones of Me & Miss Jones.  Take a look at the rest of the Lookbook here and you can see more of my work on Stephanie’s site here.

Here is a recent crew shot after another really cool Smart Money shoot.

…sometimes you just have to hurry.

I recently photographed the CEO of Honeywell, David Cote, for NYSE magazine.

It was a cover shoot.  We set up 2 shots in an airplane hanger.

The cover setup lasted 1 minute 20 seconds

For the inside picture I shot 4 minutes.

Then he hopped in a plane and flew away.

We went next door and took some more pictures…

I have to say that I am always really pleased with the layout and reproduction in NYSE.

Thanks Victoria Rich at Time Inc Content Solutions for giving me the opportunity.

Here are some of my favorites from a recent shoot for Huggies Pure and Natural.

We had the pleasure of working with Kerry Mellor, Tracy Flynn and Patty Widyn of Wunderman and Michelle Avantario of Bambini.

Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie

February 2009 I photographed the cast of a new Broadway Musical, Next to Normal.  Much to my surprise, the photos were put on the doors of the Booth Theater on 45th Street, between 8th and Broadway.  Each actor’s head is about 10 feet tall.  The show went on to be nominated for 11 2009 Tonys, winning 3 and more recently it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Some of the cast members have moved on and Serino Coyne asked me to photograph the new actors to update the doors.  They went up today.  I had the pleasure of bumping into Jason Danieley when I got there.  He is taking over the roll of the father, Dan.  The first performance with the new cast is tonight!

The Booth Theater 7/19/10, 222 West 45th Street

The first cast 4/2009

The quality of the prints on the doors is pretty incredible.  You have to see them to get the impact.  Serino Coyne did such a great job.  It’s really fascinating to see every little retouching decision amplified, absolutely every little detail becomes important.

From left: Jason Danieley, Jason Danieley and me

Meghann Fahy and Kyle Dean Massey

We should all put our faces on our doors to prepare those who enter for what awaits.

Thanks to Sean Pomposello, David Barrineau and Moira Finney of Serino Coyne and David Stone, the show’s producer, for the opportunity. Also thanks to Jacek Kuzniar for his assistance with the retouching, now from San Francisco instead of in my studio, and Stefanie Syat for doing a great job with the hair make up!

Reviewing photographs while tethered in the studio during the Next to Normal shoot. Pictured from left: Aaron Tveit, David Barrineau of Serino Coyne, Jacqueline Bovaird of Glasshouse Assignment (my agent), me, and Jacek Kuzniar

When shooting with strobes I almost always shoot tethered or connected to a computer.  I find it difficult to really judge light on a camera’s LCD.  It’s much easier to make judgements on a calibrated computer monitor than a 3″ camera screen.  That said, it is NOT easy to get a computer and camera to communicate reliably.  To read an extended discussion of my thoughts and methods of tethering click here.

Here are a couple of Photo Illustrations I recently shot for Smart Money Magazine.

Thanks to Sue Ng and Jane Clark of Smart Money.  Also thanks to Click’s Joe Duer (pictured left) and Ford’s John Jordan (right).

This year I did better than I have in a long time.  It’s encouraging.  In years past, some of my all time favorite images were not accepted.  It’s really hard to predict and can’t be taken too seriously.

These photos have been accepted in the 2010 PDN Photo Annual

The above right photo and the image below also got into the American Photography 26 book.

And this last photo (below), taken for BAM’s 2010 Bridge Project, got into the Communication Arts Photography Annual.

There are so many contests now.  These are the 3 that I always enter.

Oh Miki, why are you so sad?

Every so often you have to have a party.

It’s good for business and it’s good for the sole.  It’s fun.

I always invite everyone, yourself included.

While googling myself, the other night I found that one of my photos on Getty Images was used to illustrate the “Weekly Inspiration” section of ABC News’ Spirituality section. I hope it inspires someone. Another recent Getty Images sale I found was a photo of my daughter that was used to illustrate an article entitled “Pilloried, Are too many kids medicated?”.  Never trust a photograph.

This is Lucy.

That’s a Biscuit.

Don’t distract her.

I can’t wait to work on these.

To see the results from my previous effort click here

Art Directed by Bessie (above)

Jonathan @ 1RN- in search of more stories