5 Photographers

Nigel Parry - NY

Born and raised in London, Nigel Parry re-located and established a high and promising career in New York, USA 1994.

Parry's worked start off for magazine covers such as Elle, Vanity Fair, InStyle and Maxim.

His work is broad, with an obvious commercial look. Currently Nigel works with high time celebrities and influential people of the world; portraits, magazine covers/articles, cinema coverage for advertisement etc.

These portraits are all individual setups to personalise each subject. There is a real sense of character in his portraits which allows them to tell their own story through Nigel's photographs.

I feel a sense of awareness in his photographs, but yet they are so simple.

The photographs are mostly black and white, high contrast and extremely detailed images. His colour photography also has a big impact with high contrast. In all his photography images the detail is so amazing, its as though looking face to face, and nothing is there to hide.

Sting 1994

Morgan Freeman 1997

Richard Harris 1990

Angelina Jolie

Keira Knightley

Nigel Parry has published 4 books. Blunt 2006, Sharp 2001, Precious 2004 and A Journey Of Smiles 2007.

http://www.photographerslimitededitions.com/index.php?cat=c175_NIGEL-PARRY.html&bio=1

http://174.121.191.71/~nigelpar/bio

http://www.nigelparryphoto.com/

Mark Seliger NY

Born in Texas US, Mark Seliger also relocated to New York USA. Currently working for Conde Nast Publications.

His career kicked off by being chief photographer for the Rolling Stone magazine from 1992 to 2002. He has also shot magazine covers for GQ, Vanity Fair and British Vogue. Mark Seliger is a portrait photographer, notably his portraits are celebrity music artists, although he has also reached out to actors and distinguished persons as well.

Mark also worked for not-for-profit organisations such as "Vote or Die", AIDS and Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's.

His portraits often portray each individual that is in their own right unique to them. Musicians are artists themselves and with the help of Seliger's photographer, they can portray themselves accurately, whether they are offensive or not.

Kurt Cobain 1993

Nelly 2005

Naomi Watts 2003

Drew Barrymore 1993

Diane Kruger (Italian Vogue) 2009

Some commercial clients also include, Bebe, Ralph Lauren, Rocawear, Sony Music, HBO, Universal Pictures, include many many more.

Musicians he has represented long-term include Lenny Kravitz, Willie Nelson, The Gap and Elvis Costello.

Mark has also had many books published such as:

-In My Stairwell 2005

-Lenny Kravitz/Mark Seliger 2001

-Physignomy 1999

-When The Came to Take my Father 1996

http://www.markseliger.com/

http://www.401projects.com/index.php?mode=gallery&section_id=118

David laChapelle NY

What can be said about laChapelle's photographs... Outrageous, wild and fun photography is one way to describe his images.

David's photography techniques arose from attending various art colleges, North Carolina School of Arts, then he transferred to NY to study at Art Students League and School of Visual Arts.

His first break as a photographer was offered to him by well known artist, Andy Warhol for magazine, Interview. Throughout his photographic career, other magazines noted for his work are Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and GQ.

David's popularity grew and successfully gained a celebrity clientele. His work includes a lot of partial nudes and full nude photography. Many of his sets are created, wild and extensive staged sets to create his work.

"The difference between the works I did as a photographer for hire and the most recent is that I'm freed from the constraints of magazines. The work has not only been liberated from the limitations of glossy pages, but has also emerged from the white frame, engaging the viewer with the exploration of three-dimensional tableaux."

Quoted from LaChapelle himself, his photography engages the impacts and social issues currently in the world, trying to understand them visually.

LaChapelle not only take photographs, but also directs video features for musicians and movie trailers. Then with this in the loop, he takes the photographs for such albums and movie covers.

Some of his work can be considered offensive, but I enjoy the risk taking, and the mental stimulation he provides to understand the work, and what each celebrity is demonstrating.

Alexander McQueen

Amanda Lepore

MayBach

Rolling Stone 2009

http://www.lachapellestudio.com/

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/lachapelle.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_LaChapelle

George Favios AU/USA

Located in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York, George is a very accomplished fashion and advertising photographer. George focuses on the beauty of emotions and romanticism in his photographs.

He has formed many relationships with models and boutique companies, and travel agencies. Such as his work for Marina Mirage, a new hot spot, for R&R on the Gold Coast. Boutique jewellers; Callieja Jewellers and Lisa Brown Designs Winter 2010 Collection.

Many of the fashion photographs are high contrasted colour images, clean and simple. George Favios likes to heavily edit his photographs, whether advertising or fashion, the models have flawless skin, expertly placed hair "fly-aways" and bold and beautiful makeup for the advertising, for the fashion photographs they are more classically natural. There is still an amount of detail left in the images which appeals to the clientele that his images are more "real". These photographs also look as though they have been taken on location, not placed in post processing like many other fashion photographers do.

His style is not as LaChappelle's wild and outrageous images, Favios plays it safe when it comes to positioning models, their poses are more "acceptable" and not so aggressive. George Favios is more an advertorial fashion photographer, more for catalogs and magazines.

http://www.georgefavios.com/bio

Stuart Miller AU/UK

Settled here in Australia, Miller has also stretched overseas to the UK to share his love of fashion/advertising photography. Stuart has worked with many major powerful clients such as Glen Deveron Whiskey, TransAct, Medicare and Fire & Rescue Australia. His advertising images are of high contrast. Ideally, the styles of Medicare and TransAct have the family appeal and family environment. These photographs are typically "family friendly", which gives the right direction towards their target market - AKA mothers and their families.

Stuart's portraiture is not necessarily of celebrity faces, but regular people in their regular lives, doing what they do best/love. A following picture below is one that had entered into the National Portrait Prize. Also a big image that aroused a lot of topical information of analysis. "Gori, Bougainville 2009 - Stuart Miller".

His fashion photography is amazing. Whether it had been in a studio set up, or on location, Miller appears to use flash lighting to create a nice balance between daylight and flash, or direct daylight creating beautiful silhouettes or high contrasty images.

Miller also focuses on a more personal level of photography creating conceptual folios of work that are more linked to his ideas and creative thoughts. These have more of a documentary feel of black and white photography, high contrast and huge amounts of detail.

http://www.stuartmillerphotography.com.au/