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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Brad Feinknopf
Mark Bradly Feinkopf’s career started out by assisting famous photographers such as Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arnold Newman and Joyce Tenneson, and beacause he is also the son and grandson of architects, this might be part of a logical explanaition for his understanding of the architectural photography genre. Feinkopf studied design at Cornell University in New York City. In 1988 Feinkopf returned from working in New York, to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio to establish a photographic studio that would excel in providing its clientele the utmost of quality and service in architectural, interior and corporate photography. An approach to photography, that is both traditional in process yet cutting edge in technology, Feinkopf photography utilizes some of the top digital equipment and superior retouching services available in the industry today. Feinkopf is also a frequent writer and lecturer on architectural photography.
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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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Miles Aldridge
Born in London, Aldridge studied illustration at Central St Martins, and briefly directed pop videos before moving into fashion photography in the mid 90s. His influences include film directors Derek Jarman, David Lynch and Fellini and the photographer Richard Avedon and the psychedelic graphic design of his father, Alan Aldridge. His work is highly controlled with a cinematic effect.
His work is filled with glamorous, beautiful women, whose perfect appearance and blank expression could be interpreted as passivity and ambivalence. Aldridge, however, prefers to define his women as in a state of contemplation, so that we are asked imagine their inner lives. And the technicolour dream-like worlds he creates aren’t as perfect as they seem. There is silent screaming, broken glass, a head pushed down on a bed, the blood red of ketchup against a black and white floor. It’s a dream that could just as easily turn into a nightmare.