Surprise! Pocket Camera Retro Wednesday is back from it’s outrageously long hiatus. What happened this time you ask? Well, it’s simple. While backpacking in Tierra del Fuego with a group of gypsy nuns, I was mugged by a group of very large pre-schoolers. I offered them three of the gypsy nuns and some Pepto Bismol, but unfortunately all they wanted was my cheap pocket cameras. That was a few months ago. It wasn’t until this past weekend that one of those gypsy nuns (feeling terribly guilty no doubt) bought me a new pocket camera, which explains why we are all [...]

10 Jun 09  /  Features, Photography, Retro Wednesday  /  1 Comment  /  Zachary Hayes

Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello are a fashion photography dou based in Paris, France. They have shot for Numéro, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Russian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, and Italian Vogue just to name a few.
Based in Paris, Sofia & Mauro met in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Sofia was studying cinema while Mauro was playing music in a rock band. After moving to Paris they won the Picto prize for young fashion photographers in 2002 and held their first exhibition at “Le Palais de Tokyo” in Paris.
Gallery after [...]

02 Jun 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Merlin Bronques is an American musician and photographer, known most famously for his work as a nightlife/boob photographer for lastnightsparty.com. His work is basically a hipster friendly, pseudo-artistic reimagining of Girls Gone Wild. Merlin is also the main person responsible for the over saturation of party photographers in the past few years. Gallery after the jump.

27 May 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  3 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Olivia Frølich is an up and coming fashion photographer working out of Copenhagen. There’s a nice interview with her here. Gallery after the jump.

12 May 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Ellen von Unwerth is a German photographer who specializes in “erotic femininity.” Before stepping behind the camera, she worked as a fashion model for ten years. She is now mainly a fashion and editorial photographer. Gallery after the jump.

28 Apr 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Steven Meisel (born 1954) is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in the latter’s 1992 book Sex designed by Fabien Baron. He is now considered one of the most successful fashion photographers in the industry, shooting regularly for both US and Italian Vogue and lately W.
Gallery after the jump.

14 Apr 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  1 Comment  /  Zachary Hayes

Solve Sundsbo is a fashion-world icon, having shot for a who’s who of luxury designers – Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Bally and Armani. Gallery after the jump.

14 Apr 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Heltmut Newton was a fashion photographer known most famously for his nude studies of women. He’s one of my favorites and I consider him to be an icon of his era. However, I’m mostly featuring him here today because I was very surprised to learn that he isn’t as well known as I had thought. That just won’t do. NSFW gallery after the jump.

03 Mar 09  /  Features, Photographer Spotlight, Photography  /  2 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes