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The BKBlog Fashion Photography Contest Winner Regen Chen Podcast Interview

All Photos ©Regen Chen 2010 Today I had the opportunity to speak with Regen Chen, who won our first Benjamin Kanarek Blog Fashion Photography Contest. It was a pleasure speaking with him and as with most interactions, it was  a very illuminating experience for me. I appreciated that he was well prepared for the call and [...]

May 29, 2010 4
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The Politics of Fashion Photography Part 7

You’re Not Published Until You Are Published When someone views a fashion or beauty spread in a Fashion magazine, I suspect that most of you think that what you are seeing was what was shot for that spread. Well more often than you can imagine, it is just a fraction of what was actually shot [...]

May 24, 2010 1
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A Comment by Bruce Jones Worthy of a Special Post

Bruce Jones, Photographer, responded to my Post “The Politics of Fashion Photography Part 6“ with his very illuminating thoughts. I felt it was worthy of a separate post so here it is: by: Bruce Jones This is hardly unique to “fashion photography.” In my former life as a freelance corporate communications producer, I had plenty [...]

May 20, 2010 2
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The Politics of Fashion Photography, Part 6

Keeping Cool… Or Walking on Eggs Your probably asking what I mean by the above phrase. In fact it means many things pertaining to the “Biz”. It can mean keeping your nose out of trouble, keeping your distance when you really want to get involved in a model’s problem with her agency, boyfriend, client etc. [...]

May 9, 2010 9
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Recalling Guy Laroche

Since I posted “Recalling Pierre Cardin”, there have been several requests to post some of my earlier work from my archives. I have always had the greatest respect for French Designer Guy Laroche’s work and found a couple of advertorials I did for him that appeared in VOGUE Paris and L’ Officiel magazines from the [...]

May 6, 2010 1