Artist Portrait Photographer – shooting Legacy Russell
Artist Portrait Photographer: Shooting portraits of LEGACY RUSSELL for Felix magazine. Legacy is a writer, artist, curator, and creative producer. She has worked at and produced programs for The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2010, she was granted a Creative Time Curatorial Fellowship.
Legacy is Art Editor of BOMB Magazine’s BOMBlog. You can find her work printed publications like Refinery29, the Village Voice, The New York Times, the Santa Fe Literary Review, Guernica, Killing the Buddha, BOMB, and more. She is a candidate for an MRes of Visual Culture at Goldsmith’s University.
Portrait Photographer Behind the scenes – Legacy Russell shoot
Portrait Photographer: We had a great fashion and portrait shoot this week, shooting Legacy Russell for American magazine FELIX. Legacy is a writer, artist, curator, and creative producer.
FELIX is a luxury lifestyle magazine serving Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. The pages of this glossy publication cover the latest trends in fashion, fine dining, nightlife, arts and culture. Featuring ultra luxe fashion profiles, restaurants and the season’s must-have accessories from the world’s top writers and stylists. FELIX reaches some of the most elite and influential, engaged and discriminating readers in America.
Here’s some behind the scenes photos for now and I’ll publish some of the actual portrait and fashion shots for the magazine soon.
A special thanks to a brilliant creative team – Make-up Elizabeth Hsieh, Hair Eugene Davis, Stylist Irene Darko
Thanks also to two great Assistants – Kevin Baker and Paul Craig who worked damned hard setting up my kit and Paul for the great behind the scene shots below. Thanks to Chris too for holding the main reflector.
Actress Portraits – Josie Taylor
Actress Portraits: Taking portraits for Josie Taylor an actress known for Tamara Drewe, Jimmy’s End and The Other Child.
Actor Portraits London
Actor Portraits London: Taking portraits of Danish born Lucas Hansen, probably best known for “The Human Centipede (Full Sequence)” but has done loads of movies and has just been booked for a large TV show.
Perfumer – Thomas Kosmala
Recent portrait shoot with Thomas Kosmala, Tom is a perfumer with some amazing and very expensive perfumes, the box that the perfumes are sold in are made from solid lacquered wood.
Portrait – front cover shots
Some recent portraits that I shot for a Hult – International Business School. I was asked to shoot various portraits for the covers of a world wide students project / brochure.
Celebrity Portraits – Ray Quinn & his lovely wife Emma Stephens
Celebrity Portraits: I hadn’t shot a couple for a while so this was a nice change. Taking portraits of Ray Quinn and Emma Stephens was a pleasure. Former X Factor singer and Dancing on Ice winner Ray Quinn fell in love with Emma Stephens while working together in the London stage show Grease the musical.
Actress Portraits headshots – Adele Silva TV Personality
Actress Portraits headshots: Actress and TV personality Adele Silva is best known for her role in Emmerdale as Kelly Windsor. She has also played parts in horror comedy Strippers vs Werewolves and Richard E Grant’s film “How To Stop Being A Loser“. Adele recently starred in “51 Shades of Maggie” a spoof of an infamous erotic novel.
Actors Portrait Headshots – James Baxter
Actors Portrait Headshots: James recently played Jesus in RED DWARF X and Paul in LOVE LIFE for ITV, he also played Alan Maddison in JOE MADDISON’S WAR and Jake Doland in EMMERDALE for 2 years.
Actress Headshot Portrait – Lisa-Anne Wood
Actress Headshot Portrait: It was lovely to work with the beautiful Lisa-Ann Wood today, Lisa is a young Scottish actress who has just completed a run as Cosette in Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre, London.