Kevin Van Aelst was born in Elmira, New York and did most of his growing up in central Pennsylvania. He recieved a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 2002 and an M.F.A. from the University of Hartford in 2005. He currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He has taught photography classes at the University of Hartford Art School, Middlesex Community College, and currently is teaching at Quinnipiac University and ACES/Educational Center for the Arts High School Program. He is a recipient of a 2008 fellowship grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Photos of his can be seen weekly illustrating “The Medium” in the New York Times Magazine. Other clients include Boston Globe, GQ, Courrier International and Fast Company. He currently has a solo show at the University of New Haven.
Via Sweet Station
Olivia Bolles, aka Olivia Bee, is a 15-year-old photographer from Portland, Oregon. These photos are from her “fashion-ish” and “lovers” series. Her videos are also quite impressive.
Via Lost At E Minor
Early in her career, Sandy Dyas owned a small portraiture business in Bellevue, a small Iowa town near the Mississippi River. A dozen years later, she moved to Iowa City and received her MFA in Intermedia (Performance Art & Video). Her first book of photographs, entitled Down to the River; Portraits of Iowa Musicians, was published by the University of Iowa Press in June 2007. In 2005, she was named “Iowa Photographer” by Photo District News. Currently she is involved in a one year photo project entitled The 50 States Project. She is an artist, freelance photographer and a Lecturer in the Art & Art History Department at Cornell College. Some of her clients include New York Times, Vogue, No Depression Magazine, Redhouse Records, and BUST Magazine.
Vincent Gapaillard is a Paris based advertising and editorial still life photographer. Some of his clients include Wallpaper, Playboy, Vogue Deutsch, Express Styles, Citizen K, Mixte, Galeries Lafayette, Sonia Rykiel and Ruinart. He is represented by Isabelle Décamps Management.
Anne Lass was born in 1978 in Schleswig, Germany. She studied photography at University of Duisburg-Essen/Folkwang Hochschule and received her diploma in 2007. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and she is co-founder of the art project, Weisser Salon. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
Thomas Mangold is an advertising photographer who lives and works in Dortmund Germany. His clients include advertising agencies, brands and magazines such as TBWA Berlin, Gruner & Jahr Hamburg, Masuo Kuroda Tokyo, Audi, Clorox, Cube, GQ and Wallpaper. He is represented by Bransch in New York, Paris and Hamburg.
Kevin Cooley lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and often times collaborator Bridget Batch. He is primarily a photo and video artist who does freelance assignment work as well. Some of his clients include Architectural Record, Bomb Magazine, CitiGroup, Cisco, GQ, Newsweek Japan and the New York Times Magazine. His pieces are in several collections including the Guggenheim Museum. He is represented by Redux Pictures and you can see an excellent video interview with Kevin on the Redux blog.
Backwoods Minnesota born photographer, Jennifer Tzar, has been working professionally for 8 years. Offbeat and arresting, her images, in the realm of magical realism, project defiance and individuality. Her rebellious, modern day fairy tale style, has landed her jobs with fashion and documentary clients such as Levis, Lancome, i-D Magazine, Vogue Homme International, Men’s Vogue, Interview, Spin, Billboard, Flaunt, Life Magazine, Discover, Travel & Leisure and Rolling Stone Magazine. Jennifer indulges in the diverse views travel and life experience can offer and translates it into her own work. Once the singer in a new wave band called Peck Slip, and now an established photographer, Jennifer Tzar eventually plans on moving into making films.
New York based Italian photographers Matilde Montanari and Andrea Morini have merged imagination, creativity and technical skills to see more where it is only possible to watch. Since the very beginning, the two partners have created their own unique and highly recognizable style. Their work is innovative, amusing, sexy. They integrate creativity with technicality. Their results go beyond still life. This work is from their series, ‘Lunch Special’.
