Describing himself as a rockstar photographer with a minors in actors and fashion, Joseph Cultice has been a leading name in the world of music photography. After graduating from ASU in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona in 1990, he moved to New York City. His career was given an almost immediate kickstart when he began working as the official photographer for Nine Inch Nails. His works are predominantly portrait based, however also include the photography for album covers including Marilyn Mansons “Mechanical Animals” and Korns “Remember Who You Are”. His works have been featured in magazines including Vogue, Revolver and FHM to name just a few.
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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.
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Nitin Vadukul
Born in Kenya in 1965, Nitin Vadukul is a commercial and fine art photographer based in New York. At the age of four he moved to London, and at the age of eight his passion for art began. Nitin has a interest in the realms of subconscious and dreams, it was through experimentation that he developed his sense of “seeing past the visible and into the invisible”. His photographic work has been exhibited in USA, UK, Japan, France, Germany and Russia.
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Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Warren du Preez is regarded as one of the creative industry’s leading artists within image making and film. Du Preez’s Unique process of painting with light and form combined with performance lead the viewer to share their landscapes of imagination. The resulting imagery can be described as as hyper-visual and painterly. His future/past philosophy informs levels of abstraction and mystery that resonate and challenge notions of beauty. Du Preez’s subconscious homage to classicism and surrealism convey his vision of ‘dreams in reality’ illustrated by his unique artistic processes which show photography in a completely new light.
Du Preez has created editorial for V magazine, Nowness, New York Times magazine, Numero, i-D, Big Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Muse and GQ Style. His visual innovation has led to commisiona to create advertising campaigns for: Lancome, Shu Uemura, Issey Miyake, Cartier, Boucheron, Hermes, Elizabeth Arden, Thierry Mugler, Shiseido, Cacharel, Nike, Levi’s, Absolut, BMW, Sony and Mercedes Benz.