Sp Top: Adv. Photography

This photographer, Mary Garvin, went to ACU for her freshmen year (Fall of 2009) before she went full time as a photographer. She now lives in New York City and travels all over the country taking fantastic shots, and she’s just 20 years old!! I met her in Nelson Hall. I love how she uses interesting and unnatural colors and very “unstaged” poses to come across playful, and yet there’s a quiet calm and vintage feel to her pictures that i absolutely love!! Ever since I met her, she’s been my inspiration for my personal photography, especially when i do senior portraits!

to see more of her photos, check out her blog at http://www.heritagephotobox.com/

Here is kind of a local photographer from San Antonio who has a lot of great portrait stuff. (even of Edmund “Clyde” Gates) His style reminds me a lot of commercial / editorial portrait photography. Although, he does quite a few artistic portraits with his models. Great stuff.

http://davidteran.com/main.php#/Portfolio/Main/21/

Jeremy Cowart is a commercial photographer based in Nashville. His education was in art and design (graphic design), but after trying to launch a career as album designer, soon he realized his passion (and talent) was in photography. One can definitely observe how all of that has informed him as photographer.

Below is an interesting video, showing a little bit of the process behind one of his (for pure fun) project:

James Dimmock

Check out Alberto Oviedo’s profile from Communication Arts magazine.

Click on image to his more of his work.

Mariano Vivanco is an extremely talented editorial, fashion, and commercial photographer. His work has been published on major publications around the world. You probably have seen one of his images before, if not, here’s a great opportunity.

I met Bill Frakes while attending a workshop in Wyoming. Besides being a neat person, he is a well seasoned photographer, extremely talented, and humble guy. I had a great time with him, and learned a lot by just listening and watching him work.

From Bill’s website:

Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer based in Florida who has worked in more than 125 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients.

His advertising clients include Apple, Nike, Manfrotto, CocaCola, Champion, Isleworth, Stryker, IBM, Nikon, Canon, Kodak, and Reebok. He directs music videos and television ads.

Editorially his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world. His still photographs and short documentary films have been featured on hundreds of Web sites as well as on most major television networks.

He won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. He was awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo. He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press club for distinguished foreign reporting. He has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work.

http://www.billfrakes.com/

Annie Leibovitz
One of my favorite photographers of all, for her versatile, daring and crafty style. I was able to see her exhibition: A Photographer’s Life, and many of her original prints in Paris last year.

Follow this link for the American Music series.

I’m not a big animal person, but I thought this was a cool story about how Teresa Berg is using photography to make a small difference.

Feel free to peruse this flock of fanciful food (f)otography!

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/international-foods/