It’s the crack of Dawn in Brooklyn. Admittedly, I don’t know Brooklyn all that well. I’ve been a queens guy for the last decade and change, so when Tavia brought me on to photograph one of her illustrious clients, RIO Olympics 2016 Mexican Pentathlete star Ismael...
Preparation
Light of Your Life
It’s Autumn in New York, and I couldn’t be happier. Not just because it’s pumpkin everything and the soon to be colorful foliage, but because the East Coast has some of the best lighting this time of year. I had an unconventional childhood. Other kids were playing...
KARJAKA Does Fashion Week?
I know, I know, I'm not a fashion photographer, or one in the traditional sense. That's been made abundantly clear over the years. I can't help it, I care more about the person wearing the clothing than the clothing themselves. But, that's not to say I don't love what...
Monday Musings: Clowning around at the Diner
I have a diner theory that apparently isn’t a new revelation for some of you. However for those who don’t know it or my take on it... the diner is the cosmic leveler of life. It doesn't matter who you are, or what diner you are at, there's always the gruff waitress...
Embrace Your Face
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Boxes, poxes and more poxes of boxes. Please no box, I'm done box. I don't want to be in a box. Why does everything we do need a label box? A box for this, a box for that, a pox, a box on your house. Specificity down to the boxatomic level. Why...
The Puppeteer featuring Kat Van Cleave
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As you might have noticed, or perhaps not, it's been a minute since our last edition. With the states finally opening up, Summer street and studio session have been in full force. Pepper in a few commercial fashion and food campaigns to boot,...
Newborns in the New Year
Letter from the Editor They Only Crawl Once... I am by no means a "newborn photographer", however I have photographed my fair share of toddlers, tots and tykes. A portrait is a portrait regardless of age, and what lights me up is capturing that innocence. Coming up on...
Why Isn’t This On My Wall?!
Letter From The Editor ...And now there's water on my floor. Four years later and my studio has never been the same. No one really prepares for a photoshoot. You have an idea, past experiences, but the day of the shoot in studio or on location can be generally......
Sins of the Novel Marketer.
Letter From the Editor - Sins of the Novel Marketer Do you get it now? Are we all on the same page? The last few months have made it abundantly clear, you're in the Marketing run of your life. And I mean Run. I hate to say it, but this 24/7 frenzy of online media and...
Don’t Mistake this Moment for Mastery
Letter from the Editor I caught up with an old friend this week. It's been a year but it feels like yesterday since we last spoke. Midway through the conversation she says... did you know so and so is now a photographer? I chucked but she wasn't laughing. Ah yes,...