Photographer Nadav Kander Discusses His Approach to Portraiture

Nadav Kander is a brilliant commercial and fine art photographer. His work is the perfect balance of art and commerce.  Kander is recognized as one of the most original and highly regarded photographers of our time. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In a sea of bland and banal photography his work stands out. Have a look.

" I really like the connection that human beings have when there isn’t a great knowledge, like when you first meet people. I would find it very, very hard to photograph a friend well, or to photograph somebody that I knew well. I think that that tension when you first meet people allows you to communicate without speaking"~ Nadav Kander

Advertising Photographer Stan Musilek: Photo Shoot Tips

Stan Musilek is a photographer of Czech origin born in Prague. He studied mathematics at the University of Heidelberg but fell in love with photography and never looked back . Later he moved to San Francisco where he opened his studio. Musilek has earn multiple awards and is one of the first photographers to embrace digital photography and Photoshop. He later opened a second studio in Paris. His client list is quite impressive: Adobe, Apple, Bank of America, Christian Dior, Coca-Cola, Geffen Records, Hitachi, Intel, Levi Strauss, Macy’s, Microsoft, Motorola, Nike, Nokia and many others.

Photographer Profile ~ Jill Greenberg

Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated with honors in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography

n 2007 Greenberg was selected by French Photo Magazine for their 40th anniversary issue to represent one of the 40 most important photographers. She has done commercial work for corporations such as Philip Morris, Microsoft, Polaroid, Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Disney, Fox, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Smirnoff, MTV, Warner Bros., Sony Music, and Atlantic Records. Her photos have appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Wired, Fast Company, Entertainment Weekly and numerous other publications. Celebrities who have used her head shots and portraits include Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron to name a few.

Her artwork has been featured in Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic and several other publications. Her monkey series has been purchased by art collectors worldwide.  Her artwork has been exhibited in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Paris, France; Adelaide, Australia; San Francisco; Chicago; and various other cities.

Greenberg herself has acknowledged having made particular use of digital post production, adapting the nickname "The Manipulator" early in her career due in part to her relatively early adoption of Photoshop, a product she has used since its release in 1990. Nonetheless, she told an interviewer in 2011 that some of what her fans believe to be post production is instead the result of close attention to lighting, merely supplemented with minor "flourishes" afterwards.