The charity-based online photography gallery collect.give announces the release of a book celebrating the project’s first 50 photographers – all of whom have pledged to donate 100% of their print proceeds to charities they’ve selected. Since 2009, collect.give has raised over $28,000 for a wide variety of charitable organizations, by selling affordable, limited edition photographs.
Description
128 pages, softcover, perfect bound, printed by MagCloud.
Design By
Heidi Romano
Photographs By
Jane Fulton Alt, Malu Alvarez, Jonathan Blaustein, Mark Brautigam, Jesse Burke, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Katrina d’Autremont, Amy Eckert, Matt Eich, Jon Feinstein, Sarina Finkelstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Max. S. Gerber, Meggan Gould, Andrew Hetherington, Geoffrey Hiller, Peter Hoffman, Jon Horvath, Ben Huff, Dave Jordano, Stella Kalaw, Melissa Kaseman, Liz Kuball, Shane Lavalette, David Leventi, John Loomis, S. Billie Mandle, Kerry Mansfield, Mark Menjivar, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Annie Marie Musselman, Colleen Plumb, Susana Raab, Shawn Records, Ellen Rennard, Dalton Rooney, Jonathan Saunders, Manjari Sharma, Daniel Shea, Kelly Shimoda, Emily Shur, Allison V. Smith, Aline Smithson, Brea Souders, Sarah Sudhoff, Jake Stangel, Lacey Terrell, Sonja Thomsen, Susan Worsham and David Wright.
Essays By
Crista Dix, Darius Himes, Lisa Hostetler, Rachel Hulin, Miki Johnson, Larissa Leclair, Wally Mason, George Slade, Amy Stein and Alison Zavos.
To Benefit
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). In keeping with the collect.give mission to donate 100% of proceeds to charity, all profits from this book will be donated to the RSPCA, a charity chosen by the designer Heidi Romano.
collect.give wishes to thank Heidi Romano of threestones and publisher MagCloud for their generous in-kind donations related to the book project.
This is exciting and very much worth purchasing and supporting. All the pertinent info is in the above press release, and Time Lightbox ran a post about the book today. You can see it here. I’m grateful to be a part of this book and group of talented and generous photographers. Support!
My shoot with actress Felicity Jones just came out in the November issue of BlackBook Magazine. I remember when I left this shoot, I felt kind of weird about it. I’m not going to go into why, but I did. When I got home and processed the images and the weight of my weirdness lifted, I remembered how impressive Felicity was to photograph. I find this about most very good actors. (Most, not all.) I find that most very good actors treat the shoot as stepping into a role, however subtle that role might be. Maybe they are still themselves, but just a slightly amplified version. Maybe they’re a whole different person. Who knows and honestly who cares. What I do know is that this ability to perform and transform makes all the difference in the world when you’re in a studio with no props, three lights, and a fan. So, to Felicity, I say thank you. She is truly talented and I hear gives an amazing performance in Like Crazy.
We went to Scotland about six weeks ago for Anna‘s wedding. So far this picture is the winner, but there are a couple other contenders I’m considering taking the time to work on. It’s amazing to get your film back and respond to only one picture you took. What’s up with that?
As promised, a brand spanking new website. Bigger images, thumbnails, updated pictures. Yay. In addition, I finally broke up with Blackberry this past Friday and received my new iPhone. So far I’m pretty into it. I’m doing well with the typing which one was one of my major hesitations in switching. I’m also super excited about Instagram. I tried to hang on and be loyal to Blackberry, and I was for a long time (years and years and years), but they were just blowing it. Yes, it was functional in terms of phone and email and international travel, but most other phones have caught up in that respect. Blackberry has not adapted to the multitude of other services that phones are expected to provide today, and I can’t get behind that. If I have to keep up and change my way of doing things to remain relevant, so do all of my bits of technology.
Oh and PS I also have representation in Asia now! Please contact Redorfe for bookings in that part of the world.
I shot this cover of Bust Magazine featuring the beautiful and smart Mindy Kaling. This was the second time I photographed Mindy, and I recently had the pleasure of shooting her a third time. Another cool thing is that this cover story was written by my friend and also very inspiring and impressive lady, Jill Soloway. I love thinking that I am one third of an awesome trifecta in terms of this shoot. Both Jill and Mindy are such ballsy and hilarious writers. I highly recommend Jill’s book Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants to all the ladies (both tiny and not so tiny in shiny or dull pants and/or skirts) out there. I read it in what felt like an hour. Mindy has a book coming out November 1st. You can pre-order it here. I will definitely be reading it.
There are additional images that go with this cover shot, but I am about to launch a website re-design so I’m keeping a couple new images to myself until then.
A while ago, I wrote this post about progressing to the point in my yoga practice where I was able to perform the above sequence with a spot from my friend. Yesterday I finally did this whole thing by myself in the middle of the room (no spot)…more than a year and a half after my initial post. Lately I haven’t been finding joy in too many aspects of life. Just being honest. This is a bummout for many reasons, but mostly because it makes me frustrated with myself when I think about how fortunate I am and how excellent life is. The truth of the matter is it’s hard to just decide to be different, feel different and act different. Then I heard the now-famous Steve Job’s Stanford commencement address about 25 times on the radio and really felt stupid. I guess the point is that I do recognize the importance of being engaged in one’s own life. It’s necessary and crucial to get excited about stuff. One difficult aspect of getting older is that I no longer find joy in many of the things in which I found joy when I was younger. I’m more excited about yoga than I am about shopping. I enjoy a good glass of red wine more than a cheap apple martini. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to be getting older, and I’m grateful to be able to physically do things at 35 that I definitely could not do when I was 20! I’ll have to navigate my way into grown-up land the best way I can, and dammit I want to have fun while doing it. That’s my current mission. That and pressing up into a handstand in the middle of the room. Maybe in another year and a half…or maybe when I’m 45. Either way it would be an accomplishment.
Thank you for all of your accomplishments, Mr. Jobs.
Not one, not two, but seven of my portraits are PDN’s Photo of the Day today. Check it out here. This is a nice mix of very different types of shoots. Everything from spur of the moment collaborations (Nick Offerman) to pretty ladies being funny (Sofia Vergara) to pretty ladies being pretty (Alyson Michalka) to trying to make athletes look like they’re having fun and not just tough guys (members of the Kansas City Royals) to convincing an actor to get in a bathtub (Scott Caan) to having five minutes with a musician and getting lucky when they lay down on the ground and start laughing (Raphael Saadiq) to one of the most interesting shoots I’ve had this year (Sarah Palin). Thank you PDN for the love!
unknown amazing photo…if you took this picture or were in the vicinity of this activity, you rule.
Today is my 35th birthday! Thank you to my parents for inventing me, and also to my husband and friends and dog for making everything so awesome. You make life worthwhile.
Here’s a fashion story I shot for Los Angeles Magazine‘s October issue with Noelle of Fitz and The Tantrums fame. The whole October issue is dedicated to the “LA Woman”. Nice portrait of Maria Shriver on the cover by Art Streiber. These are the images the magazine chose. There are a couple others that didn’t make it into the story that I was excited about and will get retouched at some point. I kind of love shooting girls and playing with clothes and shoes and jewelry. I pretty much wear the same thing everyday: some t-shirt I either got for free or have had since high school, one of five pairs of jeans that all look alike, and these boots from Opening Ceremony that I splurged on last year, and that’s when I actually make the effort to get dressed. Half the time I live in yoga pants, a hoodie, and flip flops. I guess after living here for over six years I would now also consider myself an “LA Woman”. I would never have been caught dead in workout clothes on the streets of NY.
Here is my first ad for Head & Shoulders featuring the flake free beautiful-haired Alyson Hannigan! Shot for Saatchi & Saatchi over the course of two days in order to get Alyson in between takes of the actual H&S commercial and then a day in studio to shoot all of the individual objects. That pasta spoon thing definitely took the longest. Crazy reflections. We had to build a little handheld tent of silks just to get a clean read on the metal surface. I know…that’s what Photoshop is for, but I like getting nerdy. So there.
