Client: Veuve Clicquot
Event: Petanque
Story Behind the Photos: Sunset Beach, Long Island – Summer, 2010. A scorching hot July day didn’t deter this champagne drinking, petanque playing beautiful crowd from showing up on several bus-loads en route from Manhattan. It also didn’t stop me [...]
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Title: Yale Gurney’s Pop Art Series
Story Behind the Photo: New York City’s Meatpacking District, circa 2009. One of my favorite parts of Manhattan, known for its displays of art on its building walls, incredible restaurants and high-end shops – I’ve shot some of my [...]
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Story Behind the Photo: On assignment in the Dominican Republic, March 2010 to shoot a celebrity retreat for marketing, website and sales material purposes. My goal was to ensure the sun was low to cast a long enough shadow of each lounge chair. I was looking for [...]
The Full Story →Story Behind the Photo: Chris Gavagan, Director – Coached in to Silence interviews Don Yaeger, New York Times best selling author and former Sports Illustrated Editor and co-writer of Sports Illustrated cover article The Full Story →
Title: “Elastic City”
Story Behind the Photo: Chicago, 2009. Shot during a trip for a Strategic Group party for Kanye West where we took in a show and got together with old friend, former boss and President of Artisan Talent, [...]
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Title: Yankee Stadium: The Empire
Story Behind the Photo: Shot roughly 1 week prior to its very first opening day, this picture of the new Yankee Stadium is now a staple in my New York series. I wanted to capture it before the season started to ensure there were [...]
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Client: GuerillaFX/Hyundai
Location: Cinema World Studios
Early in my career, I worked on many productions but never as a photographer (way before the thought even entered my mind). This, was my first commercial shoot as a professional circa 2006. Director Thor Raxlen of The Full Story →
Title: “Angel of the Waters”
Story behind the photo: New York City’s Central Park – a brisk Autumn day, 2010. In the area doing a shoot for 1in6.org and [...]
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When it comes to landscape photography, every pro should have a signature image – this is mine.
The story behind the photo: While crossing the famous Manhattan Bridge on a day where the impossible happened – I found myself in stop-dead traffic in a place where it’s a rarity and [...]
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