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.
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Justin Polkey
Justin Polkey is an independent photographer from Cape Town. He specializes in fashion advertorials and portraits. Polkey has done work for national and international magazines such as GQ, Elle and G&W. Although some of his work can be associated with the typical style of fashion photography, in his series of works, Indigo Girl and First Dance, he explores a deeper notion of conceptual elements and thus the work is not what one would see on an average magazine page. Polkey has also done portraits of actors, musicians and public figures such as Billy Zane, Sir Ian Mckellen, Seth Rotherham and Nelson Mandela.
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Sam Yocum
Sam Yocum was born in Texas on a working ranch, as a young boy with camera in-hand he’d ride across the fields shooting pictures of anything that caught his eye. Encouraged by his aunt and uncle, who were fashion photographers in New York, he was shooting proficiently and by age 13 was published, establishing a life-long passion with fashion and beauty photography.
Today he continues to explore new areas of creativity, and has recently begun directing, bringing his clean, timeless beauty touch to motion. Based in New York City, Sam is known for taking an agency’s creative concept from beginning to completion by producing stunning photographs that create the lead visual branding needed in today’s competitive market. He has worked on multiple re-branding projects with great success for various premiere brands & this work has won multiple awards in various international competitions including the Chicago Athenaeum, ID, Smithsonian Design, Step Inside Design, AltPick and; has been featured in Lurzer’s Archive. His list of celebrities he has worked with includes CEO’s and prominent industry individuals.
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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.
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Patrick Demarchelier
The portraits, fashion and fine art images of photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer, born in 1943, he was raised in the small town of La Havre, near Paris. His love of photography began aged 17 when he was given his first camera by his stepfather and began to take pictures. Aged 20, he moved to Paris and began working for a photography lab, printing newspaper photographs. He has no formal qualifications, instead he claims he has learned from his mistakes.
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Nicholai Fischer
Fischer is a fashion photographer who was born in Pretoria and now lives in London. His style of photography is simple and minimal.