Stockholm based photographer Max Modén just shot a story with Malin Å of MIKAs Stockholm. Shot at a rainy day in the Swedish archipelago, Fall On Stony Ground is a nice and toned down fall story. First time Max was featured on BTB was about a year ago, then with his former partner Waldemar Hansson, who’s also a BTB regular.

Credits:
Photographer: Max Modén
Stylist: Lisa Carlén
Hair/Make up: Anna Frid
Model: Malin Å/Mikas
Photo assistant: Hanna Thalén

Mikael Vojinovic is a bit of a nomad, having lived and worked all over the map. Based in France at the moment the 35-year-old is producing some great work, and within his 20 years in the business his work has been published in publications such as Elle, Oyster, Maxim, Playboy, Standard, Zink, A4 and many more.

When I caught up with Mikael back in May I asked him what inspired him, his answer was honest: “- Women, women, and women!”

Having followed his work for a while I was very excited when Mikael provided me with the exclusive and vibrant story Love Lights, taking place at Pigalle, the famous red-district in Paris.

Credits:
Photography: Mikael Vojinovic
Stylist: Marz
Make-up: Emilie Peltier
Hair: Jerome Tiercelet
Model: Linnea @ Karine
Location: Pigalle, Paris

Barcelona based photographer Marc Rabadán has just provided me with an exclusive shoot with model Nina Braunsteiner. Marc that started shooting fashion earlier this year, was featured on BTB a while back. He gets inspired by contemporary conceptual photography, photojournalism, and work by fashion photographers such as Hedi Slimane, Emma Jönsson Dysell, Ellen von Unwerth, Mert & Marcus and Beau Grealy, to name a few.

The shoot and approach is bold and daring, and the result is amazing. Enjoy.

Credits:
Photography: Marc Rabadán.
Make-up: Gloria Perañada.
Hair: Tamara Ortiz.
Model: Nina Braunsteiner (ICON models) mother agency.

Waldemar Hansson has once again provided me with an amazing editorial. Where The Wild Dream Grows was shot for the first issue of F.Hush Magazine, and features model Anastasia Scherchen. F.Hush was launched this summer, and is definitely a mag worth checking out.

Credits:
Photographer: Waldemar Hansson
Stylist: Kawa H Pour
Hair: Sherin Forsgren
Make-up: Sophia Eriksen/agentBauer
Model: Anastasia Scherchen/city model Management Paris
Photo Assistant: Peter Edqvist and Sofia Nordström
Stylist Assistant: Alexandra Alexi

Herring & Herring has provided me with yet another great story. The collaboration between Russian art director Dimitri Scheblanov and Danish photographer Jesper Carlsen is still going strong, as it has ever since they started working together in 2008. Summer Daze features Elsa (IMG), Sofia (Ford), and Le Call (One Model Management), and was featured in issue 02 of FreeStyle Magazine.

Credits:
Photography: Herring & Herring
Stylist: Masayo Kishi
Hair: Scott Wasserman for DEX NY
Make Up: Alice An
Models: Elsa @IMG, Sofia @Ford, Le Call @One Model Management

Ben Trovato Blog is now over one year of age, and ever since the launch it has been a pleasure to promote the great work of the many aspiring fashion photographers in the industry! And hopefully there’s many to come. A big thanks to all the photographers, the readers, and all the people that are promoting the blog around the web, this couldn’t have been done without any of you. For the 200th post I will focus on the best of the work featured within the 199 posts published, not necessarily personal favorites, but the work that has gotten most attention and visitors after being published. In other words: The most popular work. However, some of the work has been picked because I felt it didn’t get the attention it deserved.

The “best of” collection consists of 40 images, one image per photographer. Click on the title or image to get to the actual post where the image was featured. Enjoy the amazing work collected through 199 posts over 1 year, in chronological order.

New York based model and photographer Dylan Forsberg has been shooting ever since he got his camera at the age of sixteen. Seven years later he’s still using the same camera when taking pictures, and beautiful ones at that. “The first person I took a picture of was my girlfriend around that same time. For a while I only took landscapes but I got back into shooting people after I shot my Mom for a Christmas present. I couldn’t afford to get her anything else and she had just moved to Florida so she was having trouble meeting people. When I got back to New York, I told my friend Hanne and she said I should take some pictures of her. I did and everyone liked them so I shot my girlfriend Kasia next.”

Dyaln claims he doesn’t take in that much inspiration from outside: “- I have a terrible memory and no imagination so I just get a few people in a beautiful place and mess around with my camera settings. I try not to force an idea I have in my head on the people I’m shooting because I don’t want them to act or look posed. I just want to catch them as themselves doing whatever feels right with the atmosphere we’re in. David Armstrong’s work did show me that things don’t always have to be in focus though.”

His work hasn’t been published anywhere yet, but it’s not at a thing he worries about. “With what I’m doing it isn’t really necessary to shoot for magazines anymore. I throw my stuff on a blog, other blogs mention it and it spreads. As long as I do a good job people will like it and tell others. Then when I try to sell prints, t-shirts or a book I have a wide audience of people who actually know who I am and like my work. They’re not buying a magazine for the magazine and seeing my work, they’re coming to buy my work personally from me. I have shot for one magazine coming out in September though, The Last Magazine. The format is amazing and the people working for the magazine told me to do whatever I want and they liked how it came out.”

At the moment Dylan is working on a small t-shirt company called “Where I want to be,” where he takes his landscape photography and throw them on high quality t-shirts, then destroy and dye or tie-dye them. “- Once they’re in stores and online, I’m hitchhiking to the west coast for a book / gallery and more material for my t-shirts.”

Here’s some of his work:

Waldemar Hansson just provided me with his latest story for Kurv #20. Waldemar’s photography has been featured at Ben Trovato Blog before, then with photography colleague Max Modén, when they shot the story “Ghost“ together. “Le Cœur Est un Rebelle” stars model Barbora Pracharova.

Credits:
Stylist: Kawa H Pour
Hair: Robert Preston
Make Up: Helen Borg
Model: Barbora Pracharova
Stylist Assistant: Alexandra Alexi
Photographer Assistant: Peter Edqvist and Idha Lindhag

Here’s the full story:

New York based Fernando Lahoz and Walker Brockingtong started collaborating just a year ago, when they met in a music venue in the Lower East Side and decided to combine their ideas of imaginary and create something together. With Brockington having a strong background in figure painting and Lahoz having worked in big advertising agencies all around the globe, they formed a harmonic team that would pursuit work within art and fashion.

“Our work finds inspiration in urban spaces and the lives of individuals in these spaces: it could be a contemporary interpretation of a ‘greek god’ living in NY, the romantic story of two beautiful women at the door of a theater, or the afternoon with a rebel teenager,” they say when describing what inspires them.

Their work has already been published in magazines such as Vanidad, MilkShake, VV, and Paper Planes, and at the moment they’re shooting a lot for magazines in Europe as well as working on an advertising campaign for a well-known fashion brand in New York.

Here’s some of Lahoz (Art Direction) & Brockington’s (Photography) work:

After spending three years focusing on his personal work, Los Angeles based fashion photographer Joseph Tran is ready to put himself out there again. Seven years ago Joseph started his photography career establishing relationships with all the major agencies in Los Angeles just doing paid and unpaid testing. From there it branched out to Miami, New York and Paris, for which clients he still has a good relationship with.

Inspired by the works of Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Paolo Roversi and more recently Terry Richardson, he focuses on bringing the best out of those he work with on a more human level, rather then a technical level. “It speaks volumes when you can bring out sides of
your subject that most other photographers can’t and won’t even think about,” he says speaking of Richardson’s work. Another huge inspiration is award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai’s work. “I love the way he creates mood and drama. He inspires me to step outside the box when I’m composing and shooting a story.”

After having done a lot of commercial work, some of it being printed in magazines such as Marie Claire and Elle, he wishes to dedicate 2010 solely on fashion editorials. He explains; “It’s a busy year ahead, and i hope to continue to grow and learn. My philosophy is that no matter how long you’ve been in the business, the minute you stop learning and evolving, it’s the moment you cease to grow and become stale.”

I personally love his work, and I’m very excited to feature it on the blog. Also, being presented in this collection of photos, is up and coming model Samantha Gradoville. She recently opened/closed for Prada during the Milan F/W10, and will soon be in several editorials for Vogue. So, two names to remember for the nearest future, fashion photographer Joseph Tran, and model Samatha Gradoville: