Summer Moments

Melia Marden

I love this restaurant and what better way to meet the chef and owner Melia Marden than getting the chance to photograph her restaurant, The Smile. Here is the layout from Shape Magazine.

Made in Brooklyn with Jomart

Michael from Jomart

I am working on a new project. A book about Brooklyn Food and Drink makers. I have been working on it now for a few months and it has been such a great adventure.  The book will be coming out next Fall and will be published by Power House Books.  I am working with two writers, Melissa Vaughan and Susanne Konig.  Getting to know these ladies has also been super fun. I will start posting some of the out takes here and writing a little behind the scenes diary so I can remember  this ride.

We have visited just over 60 makers already so I better get a move on.  This image above is Michael, he owns Jomart. They make chocolates and other candy treats. When we were there he was making brittle with coffee and coco nibs. Not together but two different brittles and they were both to die for.  This job has not been great for my diet but great for the taste buds. In this photo of Michael he is leaning on his grandfathers mixer. Wait. It may have been his fathers mixer. When I am taking the pics I am not always listening so carefully so I may make stuff up sometimes. I am not however missing the details of how awesome Michael is and his brittle!

On Set - The Fortress of Solitude

Daniel Aukin

Daniel Aukin taking a moment while directing the new musical The Fortress of Solitude in previews now at The Public Theater.

Show info below but you should go now to their site and secure your tickets. the show runs until November 2nd. You might want to see it twice.

THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE:   Conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin (Bad Jews, 4000 Miles), based on the acclaimed novel by Jonathan Lethem, the soaring new musical The Fortress of Solitude makes its World Premiere at The Public this fall with a dynamite creative team including composer/lyricist Michael Friedman (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and bookwriter Itamar Moses (“Boardwalk Empire,” The Four of Us). The Fortress of Solitude is the extraordinary coming-of-age story about 1970s Brooklyn and beyond — of black and white, soul and rap, block parties and blackouts, friendship and betrayal, comic books and 45s. And the story of what would happen if two teenagers obsessed with superheroes believed that maybe, just maybe, they could fly…  Starring Adam Chanler-Berat, Kevin Mambo, Kyle Beltrand and Andre DeShields. 

At Home with Rumaan Alam

The Glass House Portrait Series

Color Portraits in the Glass House

B & W Portraits in The Glass House Part 2

Alexandra Jupillat

Janice

Black & White Portraits in the Glass House

Lucien Zayan

Errolyn Daley

Tad Hills

Ryan

It's a bit funny to me because I took this photo of Lucien first. I said to both of us at the time. Hold on, the light is too contrasty, it's not flattering. Let's wait for the clouds to cover over and we'll have open shade. Well, dang it! I love this one now.  The other three of Errolyn, Tad and Ryan are nice but captured with open shade.  What a totally different feeling.  I have some others of Lucien that are more flattering of him but for now, I like this one which shows a bit more character.

 I took the photos because I wanted to capture something very different from what I have up now in The Glass House.

By the way this coming weekend April 11th and 12th are the last days of my show. I will be at the gallery Friday and Saturday from 1pm to 7pm so if you haven't had a chance to see it yet, stop by and say hi.

Jann Cheifitz of Lucky Fish

This week I went to the Lucky Fish Studio to photograph Jann Cheifitz.  I love Lucky Fish and Jann's flair for color and texture.

Dress Up

Mema and Errolyn

Has is really been 5 months since my last post?  Going through files today, making sure everything is backed up before all these hard drives crash, I came across this file and decided it was time for an update.  Okay fine, these photos are from three years ago, but you haven't seen them so they are new to you.  These images get me thinking about my editing process.  I change my perspective depending how I am attached to any particular photo shoot and why I may be taking those photos in the first place. Weather it's a personal shoot or for a job, I think it is important to spend some time going back over shoots and see if my editing eye has a new outlook.  I still have one of the images from this shoot on my website and here are three other shots I like.  These pictures were taken in South Dakota. My mother styled the shoot and my daughter is the model. We were playing dress up.

Daniel Squadron