Last september, Rhapsody magazine, which you might know if you travel in 1st or business class on United Airlines, sent me to portray legendary writer, journalist, dandy & car collector Gay Talese up in Roxbury,CT.
It was the closest thing to vacations I had this year.
Poor Andrew unfortunately got his viral moment last month, when a video surfaced of one NY city’s finest trying to convince him rather abruptly that Pink Floyd’s Wish you were here was better A-capella…
Before arrested him… Again, rather abruptly.
Read the article with additional photos and the video here.
Dawn Fitzpatrick, who heads UBS O’connor hedge fund, is nicknamed “the most powerful woman on Wall Street”.
Luckily for me, she also happen to be the most photogenic.
Read the article here.
By order of appearance, Director Mike Navarrete, managing director Adam Abrahami & global CEO and co-founder Benj Chilcott.
Read their profile in Adweek here
I am immensely grateful to photography for occasionally sending me to the weirdest places.
Ryan Matthew Cohn, artist, collector and host of Science channel’s Oddities, turned his Greenpoint railroad apartment into something between a Victorian museum of horror, the Addams family house and H.H Holmes’ man cave.There are squeletons of various sizes, skulls of various species, lots of them, antique surgery devices and shits in Formaldehyde you don’t really want to know about.
Did i mention the Egyptian mummy head?
I must admit that upon arrival, I was slightly concerned for my physical integrity but
Ryan was way more normal than his apartment could let you presume, pretty sympathic actually and we had a great time shooting and discussing how difficult it is to find a cleaning lady who accepts to come back more than once.
Another day in Bushwick, fantastic people, amazing faces.
I will remember Iris.
She didn’t wanted to pose, she said it would break the camera. I told her I thought she was very pretty.
Then things got a little weird…
Another very quick portrait session for the Wall Street Journal
This time, Lee Child, the man behind the 18 Jack Reacher novels, who will be hosting the WSJ book club for the next few weeks.
Attorney Paul Dans was instrumental in revealing the fraud surrounding the Chevron Ecuador lawsuit which was later called “the world greatest litigation fraud”.
We met for a last minute shoot, on a steamy July afternoon at the NY bar association, which is a beautiful place, with a beautiful library, that you won’t see since both Paul’s force of persuasion and my french charm failed miserably to convince the cerberus woman at the entrance to let us shoot in it…
You can’t always win.
If you want to know more, American lawyer’s senior international correspondent Michael Goldhaber released an ebook titled ” Crude Awakening” that reads like a John Grisham’s novel.
It’s available here and highly recommended by yours truly.
Fun fact/ Paul and I attended the same french law university Paris-2 Pantheon-Assas. He obviously did much better.
“You got the wrong guy. I’m the Dude, man.”
Exactly a week ago, I was at Studio 225 in Chelsea, living the best 20 minutes of my professional life.
The previous friday, Ronnie Weil at WSJ, who instantly made it from my top 10 to my top 5 people, ousting both Oprah and my mum, had asked me to photograph ”His Dudeness … Duder … or El Duderino, if, you know… You’re not into the whole brevity thing.” Mr Jeff Bridges!
The shoot went really fast, it’s all a bit blurry in my head. Luckily, The Wall Street Journal posted a cool behind-the-scene on their photoblog. The article by the unstoppable Alexandra Wolfe is here.
UPDATE: I answer a few questions about the shoot on my excellent friend Joao Carlos’ blog, check it out here!
I even talk a little bit about technique which is extremely rare
