Yulia Gorbachenko was born and raised in Pryluky, in the Cherihiv region in the Ukraine. When she was twenty-one, she moved to the US to get professional experience and international exposure in marketing and advertising. During her internship she developed love for photography, which grew bigger as time went by and she now lives and works in New York which she says is the city of rhythm, drive, and passion. Her style of photography is very contemporary but still holding onto that classical touch. She is happy to live in a digital era because she uses it to her advantage by continuously experimenting during her shoots when she can. Her favourite lighting equipment to take with on a shoot is a silver beauty dish in combination with grid and when it comes to lighting she is very much an “old-school” photographer by doing her best to make all she can on the set and works really hard to make her retouchers job easier.
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Jan Ras
Jan Ras’s passion for photography led him to study the genre at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After completing his studies, he travelled extensively for a few years while working as photographer in the tourism industry. Jan moved to Cape Town in 2000 and worked as freelance photographer before joining Media24’s Creative Living magazines in 2004. He is currently employed on a contract basis by New Media Publishing’s photographic studios and is also available for freelance work. Jan specialises in food, décor, beauty and fashion.
Watch out for his feature on Red Location Museum in the May 2013 issue of VISI Magazine.
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Tim Walker
Tim Walker’s photographs have entranced the readers of Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style. After concentrating on photographic stills for fifteen years, Walker is now also making moving film.
On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photographic assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of twenty five he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has continued to work to much acclaim ever since.
The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include Walker’s photographs in their permanent collections.
Walker staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum, London in 2008. This coincided with the publication of his book ‘PICTURES’ published by teNeues.
In 2008 Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator’ from The British Fashion Council. In 2009 he received an Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography in New York. In 2012 Walker received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
In 2010 Walker’s first short film, ‘The Lost Explorer’ was premiered at Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and went on to win best short film at the Chicago United Film Festival, 2011.
2012 saw the opening of Walker’s ‘STORY TELLER’ photographic exhibition at Somerset House.
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Michele Laurita
Photographer/ Cinematographer / Director Michele Laurita began her career over a decade ago shooting for musical artists shooting album covers. Starting as a child actor, she promptly started to document the cast members around her with a second hand still & movie camera and a new career started. Her style has attracted a broad range or artists, actors, musicians, directors, writers and designers. Most recently her work will be featured in the upcoming DOLCE & GABBANA Anniversary book and adding the latest Target with GWEN STEFANI, Woman’s FRUIT OF THE LOOM Campaign. House of ALOXXI and directed the commercial for the campaign, HALIBURTON LUGGAGE, Neutrogena / CLEAR with MARIA Sharapova. Other artist’s recently include Adrien Brody, Boardwalk Empire’s, Charlie Cox, Ben Affleck, Ice Cube, Selma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Mark Wahlberg, Terrence Howard and Nicholas Cage. Her unique strength is in her ability to create intimate and honest portraiture and fashion images in a mellow and collaborative environment. Her perspective in shooting is driven by her background and eye for directing.
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Sarah Silver
Sarah Silver studied both classical and modern dance from an equally young age, so has always had an appreciation of movement. After completing her first degree in Middle East studies from Vassar College, she found that her true calling was to combine both of her passions: photography and movement. She applied for graduate studies in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Sarah was chosen to shoot for Surface Magazine’s Avant Guardian issue and this fashion shoot marked the true beginning of Sarah’s professional career as a photographer. Using dancers as models in high fashion, Sarah’s style gelled. Next, Sarah shot her graduate thesis, two fashion stories, using the modern dance group Stephen Petronio Dance in clothing by Prada and Imitation of Christ. These photographs have since appeared in several magazines including PDN, Italian Vogue, Elle and Time Out NY and the New York Times. She is shooting with a medium format digital back.
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Akos Photography
Akos works as a fashion photographer based in New York City. Some of his Clients include advertising Agencies like McCann-Erickson Worldwide, TBWA, FCB, Young and Rubicam , etc. His clean, sensual, and accessible style of photography has graced the pages of fashion magazines like Vogue Bellezza, Vogue Taiwan, and has also worked for ELLE, Marie Claire.
Introduced to photography by his photographer father, Akos had a chance meeting with Helmut Newton that convinced him to follow his passion. After assisting in Paris for a year he found himself back in his native Switzerland working for cosmetics giant Nivea. London was to follow, and eventually New York.
Akos has worked with top brands such as L’Oréal, Maybelline, Clairol, Wella, Nivea and Nordstrom. With his artful touch and flair for the sublime, he has truly carved a niche for himself in the world of fashion and beauty.