Nelson Simoneau is a young canadian fashion photographer and shares his time between Paris and the United States.
He is becoming a name in the world of fashion photography by working for press and advertising.
Category: Fashion Photographers
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Koichiro Doi
Koichiro Doi, born in Tokyo, studied fashion design before shifting his focus to photography. His main passion was for still life, but he acquired technical techniques and skills in beauty photography as well.
He studied fashion at Parsons School of Design before realizing that it was actually photography he aspired to pursue. Upon his return to Tokyo he began to shoot and develop his own techniques, without any formal training. Seeing his portfolio and the roster of cutting edge brands and companies he has worked with, it is easy to see he has mastered the craft of beauty and still life photography.Doi shoots for numerous magazines such as Vogue Nippon, Harpers Bazaar Japan, Frech Magazines, Numéro and Spur. Doi now works between Tokyo and Paris.
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Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working for Vogue. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She is one of the worlds most influential portrait photographers.
Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008).
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Max Vadukul
Max Vadukul is a leading image maker best known for his portrait photography. He follows in the tradition of what he calls “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art”. He has also had a lifelong affinity with grainy high contrast black and white, a foundation of much of his early work. He has long standing relationships with magazines such as The New Yorker, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, and Rolling Stone. He shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others.From 1996 to 2000 he was the New Yorker’s staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon. He photographed hundreds of subjects for the magazine, including Mother Theresa, Al Gore, Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, 40 Nobel laureates at once. In 1997 he photographed much of the magazine’s celebrated Indian Fiction issue. After the New Yorker, he became photo Editor-At-Large for Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. He established himself in the 1990’s with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro. They have collaborated often through the years. In the mid 1980s Max photographed several prestigious Yoji Yamamoto advertising campaigns, introducing many to his signature dynamic movement-filled black and white images for the first time.
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Pamela Hanson
Pamela Hanson is a New York-based photographer and film-maker with over twenty years’ experience in the fashion industry. Born in London, she grew up in Geneva and attended the American school in Lugano before relocating to the US, she renowned for her fashion photography that reflects a European sensibility. Her work has graced the covers of leading print publications, including Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Elle, GQ, and Allure, among many others. Other clients include: Armani, Dove, Jockey, L’Oreal, Maybelline, Nikon, Nivea, Pantene, Tommy Hilfiger, and Victoria’s Secret, to name a few. Pamela has directed several television commercials in Europe, including L’Oreal and Nouveau. She also directed a series of television spots to raise funds for finding a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. She received an award from the Association of Independent Commercial Producers for her “Family Stories” short documentary, public service announcement collaboration with The Partnership at Drugfree.org.
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David Slijper
David Slijper, born in Yorkshire and currently based in New York, is a fashion photographer who also specializes in beauty, advertising, and celebrity photography. He became interested in photography at the age of thirteen and fully pursued it when he was twenty-five. Slijper started his career as a freelance photographer, shooting for Sunday time’s magazine, the observer and the independent magazine, which led him to start contributing to i-d magazine in 1988. His photographic style is known for combining traditional and futuristic notions of beauty. Slijper creates conceptual and aesthetic images, enabling his work to move smoothly with a pure visual grace.