We get a lot of email here from people who are interested in becoming professional photographers/film makers, or who just want to know how to improve their game. I always tell people the same thing: shoot your way out. There is a story I remember hearing about Andrea Blanche, the big time 80s photographer and [...]
Archive | May, 2010
Beyonce has a wicked good time.
Having had 2 cups of coffee this morning, I have decided that the new Beyonce video is genius. Actually, we here at the studio have been mezmerized by a whole series of music videos on line. (Who says that the music videos don’t matter anymore?). The Beck/Charllotte Gainsbourg “Heaven Can wait”, the much hyped MIA [...]
Success=Photograph with a Passion
I sometimes receive emails from photographers wanting to know how to get started in career in photography, what should they do, what should they shoot, who should they approach? I don’t want to say I know all the answers, or even some of the answers for what other photographers should do. Everyone has their own [...]
Photographers: Marketing in the Google Age, or the forensics of emailing
Jason Moriber, from the social marketing company Wise Elephant, and I were talking last week about how Google is effecting direct marketing. Basically, what both he and I have noticed is that for an emailer is sent out the open rate has been increasing, but the click through rate drastically decreasing. At about the same [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
