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BTB post #200: THE BEST OF

Marius Troy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:59:17 +0000

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:

Photography by Marc Philbert / July 9th, 2009

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Photography by Honer Akrawi / July 10th, 2009

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Photography by Nicholas Routzen / July 12th, 2009

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Photography by Marcin Tyszka / July 17th, 2009

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Photography by Viktor Vauthier / July 20th, 2009

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Photography by Ben Bassu / July 21st, 2009

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Wildfox S09 shoot by Lauren Ward / July 22nd, 2009

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Wildfox F09 shoot by Emir Eralp / July 22nd, 2009

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Photography by Guy Aroch / July 30th, 2009

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Photography by David Bellemere / August 3rd, 2009

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Photography by Petra Van Raaij / August 4th, 2009

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Photography by Lalo Gonzalez / August 5th, 2009

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Photography by Zoey Grossman / August 10th, 2009

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Photography by Maciek Kobielski / August 10th, 2009

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Photography by Henrik Bülow / August 11th, 2009

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Photography by Dmon Prunner / August 12th, 2009

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Photography by Chris Heads / August 12th, 2009

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Photography by Miles Aldridge / August 13th, 2009

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Photography by Matías Troncoso / August 13th, 2009

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Photography and film by Greg Williams / August 17th, 2009

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Photography by Greg Manis / August 19th, 2009

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Photography by Jacqueline Rivera / September 7th, 2009

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Photography by Joe Bonomo / September 7th, 2009

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Photography by Antonella Arismendi / September 12th, 2009

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Photography by Paul Farnham / September 13th, 2009

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Photography by Henrik Adamsen / September 21st, 2009

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Photography by Jonathan Waiter / September 21st, 2009

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Photography by René Habermacher / September 23rd, 2009

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Photography by Zoe Zimmer / February 23rd, 2010

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Photography by Karine Basilio / March 18th, 2010

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Photography by Roger Weiss / March 22nd, 2010

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Photography by Jamie Nelson / April 6th, 2010

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Photography by Michael Casker / April 15th, 2010

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Photography by Sofia Ajram / April 16th, 2010

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Photography by Gilbèrt François / April 22nd, 2010

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Photography by Yulia Gorodinski / April 28th, 2010

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Photography by Robert Harper / May 5th, 2010

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Photography by Jenni Porkka / May 11th, 2010

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Photography by Lucy Carr-Ellison / May 21st, 2010

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Photography by Gemma Booth / May 28th, 2010

Hours and hours are put down to bring the work of aspiring photographers out to the people, both to help the featured photographers become noticed and to inspire new talent. All of this is driven by pure passion for the art of photography, and the wish to help great talent realize their potential. BTB is an advertisement free website. your donation would help keep it that way. Please feel free to put in a donation by clicking on the link in the sidebar at the top half of the page.

Photography by Solveig Selj

Marius Troy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:13:04 +0000

Oslo based fashion photographer Solveig Selj has worked up a great portfolio in the short time she’s been working professionally, including work for MTV, SVA Magazines, Campus, Platinum Love, Heart Magazine and Vanity Teen. Solveig gets inspired being around creative people: “-I love playful designers like Fam Irvoll, the evocative music of Jake Ziah and Julie Pike’s feminin photographic style. I also appreciate bloggers for finding and sharing their treasures with the world, making it easier to discover new and inspirational artists.”

Here’s some of her work, including two videos:

Check out the rest of her work here.

Photography by Andrew Kuykendall

Marius Troy — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:54:55 +0000

Los Angeles and New York City based fashion photographer Andrew Kuykendall has been working professionally for about two and a half years now, after trying out as an assistant first. “I got kicked out of art school in LA a few years ago and started assisting. I hated that and realized I had to do it myself,” he says. Since that his work has been published in magazines such as Oyster, Zoot, Celeste, Mirage, Material Girl, Qvest, Nico, Soma, Kult, Culture, Thrasher and I love Fake.

His list of sources of inspirations is long, but definitely one of the most interesting ones: “Egon Schiele, David Lynch, Tom Waits, Eastern Europe, road tips, Sushi, , the California/Nevada desert, Milan Kundera, pugs, hot sauce, Devo Lucien Freud, Henry Miller, vintage clown paintings, Glen Luchford, Scandinavian Black Metal, etc.”

What are you working on at the moment? “Video projects are very exciting at the moment. It’s just something new to play with and figure out so that’s fun. I also just finished a book of my Polaroids over the last 10 years. It’s very sexy and fun and everyone should buy one for their coffee tables. And if they don’t have coffee tables they should buy one anyways.”

Here’s some of his great work, including two of his videos:

Check out the rest of his work here.

Photography by Lyall Coburn

Marius Troy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:52:41 +0000

I am very excited to introduce to you up and coming photographer/director Lyall Coburn. The talented South African is often collaborating on projects with his girlfriend Leanie Van Der Vyver, planning to work full time as film directors in the future. He’s inspired by everything from his girlfriend and his talented friends, to films that defy genre, sex, darkness, and the ocean.

His photo diary is a pleasure to scroll through, and it’s obvious that this guy has an incredible eye for photography. He has never worked professionally, and his photography hasn’t been published anywhere. Before now. Ben Trovato Blog is the first to feature his work! Introducing the dark and mysterious story “MurMur”:

See the full story and credits here.

Your should also check out some of his work from his diary:

Check out his full diary here.

Photography and film by Greg Williams

Marius Troy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:42:23 +0000

Wow, this is a real goodie. Ever since Greg Williams’ shoot with Megan Fox for Esquire earlier this year, his photos have been featured on blogs and websites all around the world. So Greg is not one of those up and coming, because he’s already up there, but I believe his work will inspire a lot of you!

Greg started out as a photojournalist in the 90s, before moving over to film and worked as a “Special Photographer” on over 120 films including “King Kong”, “The Talented Mr Ripley”, “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “Attonement”. In recent years Greg started shooting fashion, mostly for Vogue Italia, for whom he has shot several 20+ page editorials.

He has produced advertising campaigns for Omega, Lacoste, Hifiger, Dior, Dunhill, Escada and Barclays Bank.

Here’s some of his work (including Megan Fox film for Esquire, and a short film for Agent Provocateur, which Britain’s News of the World described as the “worlds sexiest advert”):

Good Morning, Megan Fox (video):

Short film for Agent Provocateur:

Check out the rest of his amazing work here.

AXE Instinct commercial

Marius Troy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:10:44 +0000