Final lines retouched submitted

Final portraits retouched submitted

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Is he looking at me?

Assignment 1. Professional Photo Practices 1.

 

BUCK NAKED

Chris Buck is a New York city based celebrity photographer who was born

and raised in Toronto and studied photography at Toronto’s Ryerson University. He’s been a professional commercial  photographer for more than 23 years.

His clients include Diesel, Xerox, Microsoft, GQ, Esquire, New York and the Guardian Weekend magazine.

He is known to capture a greater truth about the person being photographed than what is obvious to the naked eye. “Different portraits solve the problem in different ways,” says Chris, “Sometimes it’s very visual, like a great location or great lighting. Sometimes it’s something that has an implied meaning, through a prop or a context. Sometimes it’s a simple connection through a facial expression.”

Chris is not a fan of heroic portraits, he finds them boring. He learned  early in his career that the urge to become chummy, to seek celebrity approval, could instead invite disdain and loathing. Ever since, he has focused only on making strong photos. If his subject respect him for that effort, good. If they don’t, he’s not bothered

For him nothing is impossible and the more you are enthusiastic about an idea, the more your subject will be eager to do it and will give you what you want. He has been called “damaged”, and separately, “clever” but Donald Trump put it best when he said “Chris, make this quick, I have many important people waiting for me.”

http://www.chrisbuck.com/index.html

Project portrait 3 BW

Project portrait 2

Project Portrait 1

Prix LUX photography award show

Cette année, le jury, placé sous la présidence d'honneur de Gabor Szilasi et présidé par Louis Gagnon, directeur de création et associé chez Paprika, s’est tenu au mois de juin 2011.

15$ for the ticket and you get a free book/magazine of the winners. 

http://www.infopresse.com/prixlux/