A Short, But Sweet Rant…”Can I Model?” After more years in this business than I want to say, one of the classic lines I have heard more than any other is “…Do you think I can model?” It has gotten to the point when I get asked “THE” question, I shirk and want to run [...]
Street Fashion
Paris Street Fashion Stuff #6
The Lady and the Bag… A sunny calm and perfect day in Paris. Just wanted to take a walk and as I was just turning left towards Place Abbesses in the 18th District, I spot two girls and an older more sophisticated woman with them. As it turns out the girl featured in this shot [...]
BK Blog Contests
Important Update re: “The Benjamin Kanarek Blog & Fashion Indie” Fashion & Beauty Photography Contest #2
Important Update: 2nd Photo Contest Moved to November 1st Due to the fact that we are in Summer Holiday mode, we have decided to move the Benjamin Kanarek Blog & Fashion Indie Fashion & Beauty Photography contest deadline to November 1st, 2010. Please send your Fashion or Beauty editorial to: contest@benjaminkanarekblog.com Here is the contest [...]
Philosophical issues
Fashion Fascists… Or Pseudo Journalism?
You Decide…My Rant of the Month. I had a very interesting experience today. I am running a blog that rather than many blogs out there, actually posts original material. Most of the Fashion Blogs out there scan what is being published and informs the audience of the news. Very few of them are actually writing [...]
Brands
Pedro Lourenço’s Debut in Paris
It seems that Paris is going through a Trade Deficit in Fashion lately. Numerous Designers from outside of France are coming to Paris to take over French old Brands like Phoebe Philo at Céline, the revival of the centenary brand Madeleine Vionnet now shortened to just “Vionnet” by Rodolfo Paglialunga and recently Giles Deacon at [...]
Making of Videos
Karen Mulder Plays Photographer
A few weeks ago, I bumped in to Super Model, Artist and Singer Karen Mulder at a party that was thrown by artist Philippe Pasqua. I hadn’t seen her since I last shot with her for L’Officiel Magazine and it was a real pleasure seeing her again. Just wanted to share this amusing short vignette [...]
Photography
Mood Boards
I was asked what a Mood Board is and how it differs from a Story Board. This may seem convoluted but this is how I described what a Mood Board is: A Mood Board, unlike a Story Board, does not indicate a progression of images that will actually be shot, nor the actual setting. What [...]
BK Blog Contests
The Benjamin Kanarek Blog Fashion Photo Contest No.1
The BK Blog Fashion Photo Contest The winner will get a “1″ (One) Hour Phone Call Tutorial with Benjamin Kanarek to discus anything relating to Fashion-Beauty Photography. There will be “2″ Grand Prizes: One for Fashion and another for Beauty I will be available to discuss anything that the winner wishes to talk about related [...]
Brands
I Never Knew Him
Picture Below: Lee Alexander McQueen by Derrick Santini But… Whenever someone is prematurely plucked away from this mortal coil and jettisoned to that other place that all of us go to eventually, I ponder the what if and the why this happened. I never knew him, but I knew his work. Every time I had [...]
Fashion Editorials
“In the wind” Making of Video
I have been asked more times than I can count, if I can share my lighting with photographers wishing to understand what I did for a specific image I have done. So I decided to have one of my shoots which features designers “Paul & Joe” Paris for their Spring/Summer collection captured on video. Frédérique [...]
