Photograph by David Vance
Artist Bio:
For more than 30 years, David Vance has enjoyed a successful career photographing advertising and editorial assignments for Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Interview, Men’s Health, Rolling Stone, Tennis, Uomo and Harper’s Bazaar, Italia. His work with male models is particularly popular with gay publications like DNA Magazine. He is based in Miami.
Photograph by Bruce Weber
Artist Bio:
Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an American fashion photographer and film-maker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines. View Weber’s work at bruceweber.com
Photograph by Vincent Peters.Artist Bio:
The amazing Vincent Peters is a renowned fashion and portrait photographer known for his detailed black and white portraits of celebrities and fashion models. Check out his work at vincentpetersphotography.com
Photograph by Serge Leblon.
Artist Bio:
Serge Leblon is an international fashion photographer known for his beautiful, atmospheric portraits. He has shot campaigns for top labels such as Club Monaco and his images appear in magazines around the world. Find this artist at sergeleblon.com
Photograph by by Ellen Von Unwerth
Artist Bio:Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs.
Ellen von Unwerth found fame when she first photographed Claudia Schiffer. Her work has been published in top magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, The Face, Arena, Twill, L’Uomo Vogue and I-D, and she has published several books of photography. She won first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography in 1991.
Von Unwerth did promotional photography for Duran Duran from 1994–1997 and did some photography for their 1990 album Liberty and 1997 album Medazzaland. Her work has been seen on other album covers, such as Bananarama’s Pop Life (1991),Cathy Dennis‘ Am I the Kinda Girl? (1996), Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope(1997), British R&B group All Saints‘ Saints & Sinners (2000), singer-songwriter Dido’s Life for Rent (2003), Britney Spears’ comeback albumBlackout (2007), Christina Aguilera’s 2006 album Back To Basics and her 2008 greatest hits album Keeps Gettin’ Better: A Decade of Hitsand R&B singer Rihanna’s Rated R and Talk That Talk.
Von Unwerth has also directed short films for fashion designers, and music videos for several pop musicians. She has directed many commercials and web films for top brands like Revlon, Clinique, Equinox and others, many featuring celebrities.
Photograph by Luke Austin
Artist Bio:
Luke Austin is a Sydney-based freelance photographer known for his work in the field of male portrait photography. His style is sensual and realistic, with his subject’s often appearing extremely connected to the camera in very personal ways. For more of this artist’s work, visit his blogspot at theshadybeau.blogspot.com
Photograph by Greg Vaughan
Artist Bio:
Gregory Michael Vaughan is a successful fashion photographer born in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago but raised in Seattle, Washington. Vaughan originally studied photography but became internationally acclaimed as a makeup artist. In recent years, his photography work with male models has garnered him significant exposure. Although Gregory still works as a makeup artist, he regularly shoots models for renowned agencies such as Major Model Management and Nous Models.
You can read an interview with Greg on the Major Model Management blog.
Website: www.gregvaughanstudio.com
Photograph by Nick Knight
Artist Bio:
Nick Knight (born 1958) is a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and web publisher—as director ofSHOWstudio.com.
Knight studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design.
His first book of photographs, ‘Skinheads’, was published in 1982, whilst a student at Bournemouth. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine’s fifth anniversary issue. As a result of those black-and-white portraits, his work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalogue of avant-garde Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with renowned graphic designer Peter Saville. Since this first foray into fashion photography, he has shot both editorial and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Audi, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Shiatzy Chen, Jil Sander, Lancôme, Levi Strauss, Martine Sitbon, Mercedes-Benz, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Swarovski and Yves Saint Laurent.
Nick Knight directed back in 2001 his first music video ever, the controversial Pagan Poetry video, for avant-pop star Björk. In 2011 he directed the video for Lady Gaga’s single “Born This Way”.
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
Artist Bio:
Annie Leibovitz’s powerful portrait photography has distinguished her above and beyond most of her peers for over thirty years. From 1970 to 1983, Leibovitz was the principal photographer forRolling Stone magazine. She spearheaded the movement of music photography away from stage and studio portraiture to intimate, behind-the-scenes portrayals of musicians.
The first twenty years of her work has been collected in an extensive retrospective book and exhibition Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990. Her recent book, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005, brings together her assignment and personal work, and is accompanied by an exhibition that opened at the Brooklyn Museum and is touring internationally. Her lifetime achievements have recently merited her a place in the acclaimed PBS documentary series American Masters, aired in January 2007.
Photograph by Thomas Synnamon
Artist Bio:
Former model turned photographer Thomas Synnamon specializes in male fine art photography. His beautiful, sexy images are all over the net. For more of this artist visit www.thomassynnamon.com
Photograph by Tarrice Love
Artist Bio:
NYC-based Tarrice Love is a rising star in the world of fashion photography. For more of this photographers work, visit his official blog at loveismyrealname.blogspot.com
Photograph by B. Charles Johnson
Artist Bio:
B. Charles Johnson is a photographer based in New York City specializing in beauty and fashion photography often featuring the male form. www.bcharlesjohnson.com
Photograph by Pierre Dal CorsoArtist Bio:
Pierre Dal Corso is a fashion photographer based in Paris. He is managed by the Blob Creative Group. His credits include:
Numero China, Zink, Lurve, Vision, Schon, BlackBook, Lovecat, L’Edito, Kurv, Unfair, the Amuser, Nico, Bambi, Fiasco, Blend, Hint, Prim, NakedEye, Kitten, Some, Jimon, Vizor, Vogue.it, 160g, Rosebuzz, HEA7EN, SOKOzine, etc..
Photograph by Herb Ritts
Artist Bio:
Herbert “Herb” Ritts (Born August 13, 1952) was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture. He is widely regarded to be one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century, having photographed most of the top models and celebrities of his time. He died of AIDS in 2002.
Photograph by Camilla Akrans
Artist Bio:
Swedish photographer Camilla Akrans is an acclaimed fashion photographer. Her works have appeared in such publications as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Italia and H&M. For more information regarding this artist visit www.managementartists.com
