Friday February 26th, 2010
Here in the Northeast US, most people are ready to slip into their pajamas, hot chocolate in hand, at the slightest mention of the blizzardy conditions that we’re currently experiencing.
However, some of our photographers actually make a living off the stuff! Case in point: Salt Lake City’s Scott Markewitz was just recognized by the Ski Channel as “One of the Most Influential People in Snowbiz.” They base their list on “figures in the snow-sports industry who influence. They are not just the powerbrokers—this isn’t Hollywood. This is sliding down a hill on frozen water… this is a tribute to those who help make it all happen.”
Recent ad campaigns that Markewitz shot for Salomon and Nordica.
So how did Scott make the list? They cite his 350 magazine covers for the likes of Ski, Skiing, Men’s Journal, Outside, plus he’s the the only photographer to make Ski Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential Skiers of All Time. That’s right, he’s a good enough skier that in this case he was being rewarded for more than just his photography.
Of course, winter comes to an end in even the snowiest of climes, so Scott shoots plenty of sports and action/adventure work during the other three seasons.
Scott was also recognized as one of the “World’s Greatest Adventure Photographers” by Men’s Journal, so his work is appreciated outside the “Snowbiz,” as well.
You can see more work on Scott’s website: www.scottmarkewitz.com. Stay warm this weekend!
-Neil Binkley
Friday February 12th, 2010
Digital Photo Pro just featured Jared McMillen in print and online, detailing our our Las Vegas photographer’s process and philosophy.
Mcmillen began his career as a pro climber and eventually realized that he could be paid more as a photographer than an athlete (at least in his sport).
Since then, he’s stopped living out of his van and shoots portraits of athletes (and the occasional CEO) from just about every sport. He says that pro athletes “tend to be very image savvy these days. A photo shoot with a professional basketball or football player can be a lot like a celebrity shoot with an actor or musical icon, involving handlers and publicists and egos galore.” Though he finds that this challenge is what makes his job more interesting.
Because of time constraints with his subjects, he sometimes needs to shoot composite backgrounds, like the image above of Kevin Durant. He finds that this gives him more flexibility to tell the story as he imagined it, since he sometimes only has 15 minutes to shoot an athlete in front of a white backdrop or in the locker room.
He had 30 minutes with racing phenom Danica Patrick (below), and I’m not sure about Andre Agassi (at right) but I thought the shot was nicely balanced.
Jared discusses his gear in the article, too, and makes a “prediction” that in ten years every still shooter will be a “photo-videographer” because of the rapidly advancing technology. You can read more on their website.
On a side note, our Los Angeles-based photographer Caesar Lima lent his photograph to the cover of the same issue. We’ll be talking about Caesar in a future post, since he’s been featured in a few other places recently himself:
-Neil Binkley
Friday October 16th, 2009
Max Dolberg / San Diego
Photojournalism / Institutional
www.maxdolberg.com
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Went to kindergarten in Geneva, Switzerland. Learned to speak fluent French in a matter of
months. Can’t speak a lick of it now. In his 20′s, Max played bass in a punk band and toured the
country in a van. Shot his 2nd book on tattooing, which is being released soon. More on that here. |
Submitted By Wonderful Machine at 7:46 am
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