Job: Global launch of a pharmaceutical. 7 primary shots, one still life shot. Budget, low 6 figures. Tuesday: Hello NYC! Arrived late Sunday, the jet lag is fading, thank you Diet Coke. Meeting Robert Kozek, 1st assist, to test lights at Fotocare. There is some talk from the client about wanting to overpower daylight so [...]
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Feed the Eye.
The above photo is by Jonathan Waiter. We produce a lot of content around here, but we also are obsessive consumers of content. Blogs, magazines-tons of them, movies, books, everything we can get our greedy little hands on goes down the hatch. This mornings diet: CNN.com, Interview Magazine, NYTimes Magazine on line, NY Magazine, The [...]
HOW TO: Rescued Fighting Dogs Stills, Time Magazine
This was one of the best feeling jobs I have done in years. Time Magazine was great about giving me all the support I could ask for. Feel great about the results, feel great about the dogs, feel great about the people I was working with. Here is the story of how these pictures came [...]
Moving Photograph
The idea here was sort of a play on words, how moving can I make a photograph? I hired an actress who could cry on command, which is a talent that absolutely mystifies me. I wanted her to go through a range of emotion from happy to sad, but for reasons that became clear once [...]
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.
