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:

Herring & Herring has once again provided me with a killer editorial. Zink Magazine’s March issue features “Bound”, an editorial with models Damaris Lewis (Elite), Julia Goncharenko (Elite), Anais Pouliot (Trump), and Clara Settje (Trump). Herring & Herring is a collaboration between Russian art director Dimitri Scheblanov and Danish photographer Jesper Carlsen, and they have been working together ever since they met in New York 2008.

Credits:
Photography: Herring & Herring
Stylist: Mykel C. Smith for Mykel C. Smith Creative Inc,
Associate Stylist- Katie Collins
Stylist Assistant: Max H. Gross for Mykel C. Smith Creative Inc
Make Up: Bryan Z @ Ford Artists NYC
Hair: Brian Buenaventura @ Joe Management
Photographer’s Assistant: Kiritin Bayer

Here’s the full story:

London and Los Angeles based fashion photographer Zoe Zimmer finds herself inspired by different eras in history, 60’s, 70’s 80’s – particularly in America, and has found herself lately a little obsessed with the fashion industry in the early 90’s. Her work is about to be published in Fault Magazine and Idol Magazine, she’s shooting on spec for Zink, Ribbed and The Collective, and she was recently interviewed by British Vogue.

Being only 22 years old, she has been doing photography for just over a year. But she is not in any way unfamiliar with the camera, as she started out as a model at a young age, and gained a lot of experience through that. Her pictures show just that, and I was totally blown away the first time I came over her portfolio. I’m so excited to see what she’ll bring us in the future!

Here’s some of her work:

The collaboration between Russian art director Dimitri Scheblanov and Danish photographer Jesper Carlsen results in great fashion stories. They call their partnership Herring & Herring, and they have been working together ever since they met in New York 2008. In the upcoming issue of D Mode they have made the cover story Yesterday, which I just love. Not only is Ashley Smith the right model, but the concept and feel of the whole story is so good.

Credits:
Photographer: Jesper Carlsen
Art Director: Dimitri Scheblanov
Stylist: Katie Collins
Model: Ashley Smith, Trump Models (trumpmodels.com)
Hair: Naomi Porto for DEX New York
Make Up: Alice An
Retouching: Kevin Mendal

Here’s the full story:

In the upcoming October issue of Numéro Tokyo, New York based fashion photographer Sebastian Kim has an crisp editorial called Fatal Attraction, starring Katie Fogarty and Kendra Pears. Sebastian has worked for a lot of great magazines, such as i-D, V Magazine, GQ, and Teen Vogue. His commercial clients include Calvin Klein, Alexander Wang, and Adidas.

Here’s Fatal Attraction by Sebastian Kim:

With model Ali Stephens alongside Allen Tsai, David Vasiljevic has created a fun editorial for October’s Numéro Tokyo, called I Love Shopping. Ali Stephens was also awarded this month’s face in the same issue.

David Vasiljevic started out as an oil painter before discovering a passion for photography. He now spends his time between New York, London and Paris, working for magazines such as American and Chinese Vogue, i-D and Numéro. His commercial clients include Stella McCartney, Swarovski, Givenchy Perfume, H&M, Armani and Levi’s.

Here’s I love Shopping by David Vasiljevic:

Moscow based photographer Nicole Demeshik has taken some amazing shots of some amazing models. Nicole Demeshik is definitely a name to remember for the future.

Here’s some of her great work:

Deborah Schwartz represented Jason Nocito has a portfolio full shots of superstars and artists. What I like with his photography is the way he translates his own style in to the shoots of great personalities like Lil Wayne, Kanye West or Mary Kate Olsen.

Here’s a taste of his work:

Cédric Buchet’s Le Futur Anticipé features Katrin Thormann, and is published in the August 2009 edition of Vogue Paris. Cédric Buchet is actually one of my favorite fashion photographers, but Art Partner, which represents him, got a painfully bad website with few images and watermarks all over. So that makes it hard to put something good together. Anyways, here’s the beautiful editorial with Katrin Thormann:

ashion photographer Mara Sarai has made an editorial for the August edition of Muse. It features supermodel Iekeliene Stange. I just love the concept of the shoot. From the make up to the scenery.