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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Jerry Avenaim
A native of Chicago, Jerry Avenaim got his start in photography as assistant to legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Upon venturing out on his own in 1985, his first assignment was a foreign edition Vogue cover of (then rising star) Cindy Crawford. Basing himself out of Milan, he began to work for Italian Vogue under the direction of Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani.
With an already established fashion career, Avenaim moved to Los Angeles in 1992, where he is now based. Jerry began photographing celebrities and immediately fell in love with the genre. “I love actors and have such a great respect for the craft and it’s process.” Through the years, he has gained the trust of some of the most strong willed celebrities. In the last decade Avenaim’s resume of mega-watt stars reads like a who’s who of Hollywood.
Throughout his career Jerry Avenaim’s photographs have been seen in almost every major magazine worldwide, including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Newsweek. With the characteristic variety of mood and tone so evident in his fashion work Jerry Avenaim’s celebrity photographs organically combine the sensitivity and vulnerability of his subjects with his ability to bring out their often uninhibited and gregarious personalities. Be it a portrait of the exquiset Halle Berry reminding the viewer Hollywood is still glororus or Dr. Phil with a full on grin for his first Newsweek cover. These photographs will always be remembered, as the future photographs remain to be made.
As a catharsis, Jerry Avenaim is also deeply inspired by what he calls his “soul cleansing” personal works. These include his book projects such as Naked Truth and One Mile Radius. Taken from the foreword of Naked Truth: “It is in Jerry’s work that his personality and character emerge.
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Tom Munro
Tom Munro is a noted fashion and celebrity photographer. English by birth, Tom moved to New York in 1990. In 1997 Tom embarked on his own career as a photographer, immediately in demand and achieving overnight success and recognition from his early fashion shoots for British Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. During the last ten years Tom has contributed to some of the world’s most prestigious magazine publications including Vogue USA, Italian Vogue, Russian Vogue, Japanese Vogue and Details. Tom’s dedication and passion towards his craft has attracted some of the fashion and beauty industries most prestigious names, including Armani, Banana Republic, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Chloe, Converse, Estee Lauder, Givenchy, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Lancome, L’Oreal, Maybelline and some of the Music industries most iconic figures, such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Madonna as well as his extensive celebrity archive of many highly acclaimed Hollywood actors, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslett, Leonardo Dicaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise, to name a few.
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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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Greg Lotus
Photographer Greg Lotus’ work can be found regularly on the pages of Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, L’Uomo Vogue, and W magazine. He draws inspiration from classical paintings and a wide array of sources and life experiences, Lotus reinterprets in his own evocative way the use of light and shadow, playing with angles and composition to enhance the graphic quality of his images. Nature is a recurrent motif in his photography, a clear echo of his childhood. Lotus often mixes high fashion with rural or wild surroundings and includes exotic animals in his compositions, using elements that link the rarefied atmosphere of the fashion industry to the organic beauty of the natural world.