PORTRAIT
PHOTOS © ALYCIA ALVAREZ AND JONAS PETERSON
Weighing the pros and cons for photographers of social media’s newest darling. Once you’ve saturated your Facebook and Twitter feeds with all the business and self-promotion traction you can get out of them, what’s next on the social media horizon?
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Linnea Lenkus
Her clients pay for her ability to connect with them and capture those special moments that look into the soul or portray relationships. Many of her clients come back time after time because they love Linnea’s work. “I know the type of expression I am looking for and I know when people are connecting. It’s usually after they give me the expression they think I want. I make sure to take the image when they let their guard down,” Linnea explains.
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Kamran Malik
By day, he crunches numbers, and on nights and weekends he moonlights as a portrait photographer. Kamran Malik from Orlando, FL, works full time as the director of pricing for a large health insurance firm, so his regular job keeps him plenty busy. However, two years ago his love of photography led him to start shooting portraits in his free time.
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Tamara Lackey
An image of a child can be captured in a gleeful moment of laughter, the sudden onset of a pout or a mischievous grin before jumping into a puddle of mud. What’s amazing—and trying—about photographing children is that all of those personality traits can emerge from the same child within a matter of moments.
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Padraic Deasy
In 2006, Padraic Deasy realized his childhood dream when he purchased the family photography business from his parents. Working with his wife of seven years, Sonia, who brings vast business knowledge from her family’s fashion business to the studio, Padraic has grown Ireland-based Deasy Photographic into an award-winning boutique portrait studio specializing in family and children’s portraits. “We have created a high profile image in our community,” Padraic says. “It begins with how we package our studio through our interior decorating and studio design.” Their clients are mothers and families who appreciate a creative approach to portrait photography. Padraic says, “We have positioned our studio as a premium brand and we have built up a client base that has attracted some of the wealthiest families
in Ireland.”
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Jenny Schomaker
Photographer Jenny Schomaker makes it her business to give back to the community. She accomplishes this via a number of projects that allow her to indulge in her passion for photographing children. For the past few years Schomaker has teamed up with Dr. Sudha Chandrasekhar of Gateway Pediatrics to photograph her patients, many of whom are kids with special healthcare needs. Some have cerebral palsy and some are missing limbs, while others have cleft palates and/or other issues.
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Rena Durham
You can imagine what it’s like for photographer Rena Durham when she tells a teenager what she does. “You’ve photographed Justin Bieber?” is the likely high-pitched squeal you’ll hear, followed by, “Can you get me tickets to his
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Kevin M. Connors
Breaking the code: it sounds like something you’d hear in a spy movie. But what three-time PPA Photographer of the Year Kevin M. Connors is referring to is the most important part of the portrait-making process: getting his subjects to relax and be themselves during a shoot. “It usually only takes a few minutes,” he says. “We’re just having fun, being natural and being ourselves.” That, the San Diego portrait photographer says, is what breaking the code is all about.
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Tom O’Neal
Never mind that Tom O’Neal helped teach songwriter Joni Mitchell how to drive a stick shift, or that we had to rearrange our phone interviews a couple of times because one week he was shooting a portrait of Laura Bush, and the next Al Gore. Or even that he has a very successful wedding and event photography business in Carmel, CA, or that he regularly has gallery showings of his jaw-dropping fine art work.
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Judy Host
If you had been a presenter for the Golden Globes ceremony in 2004, you would have received a “presenter box.” This opulent party favor from the Hollywood Foreign Press and InStyle magazine included $26,270 worth of products including a $7000 spa package, a $2000 surfboard and perfume worth $1250.
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Jerry D
Jerry D’s Extreme Makeover Techniques is a recently released book that reveals years of makeup, lighting, posing and Photoshop techniques that will allow you to beautify anyone who walks into your studio. Jerry D is not only a gifted photographer and Photoshop wizard, he is also a licensed cosmetologist and hairdresser, as well as a black belt in the Chinese martial art of kung fu.
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Ana Brandt
“I imagine that I have always been drawn to parent-child relationships because I never really had one,” Ana Brandt explains. “At 4 years old my mother left both my younger brother and I on the streets of Manhattan and simply walked away. Thank the Lord angels were watching over us!”
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Pat Ramos
How many times have you read about a young person who fell into photography by accident? “I started taking pictures just a few years back when my father handed me his old Pentax. I began by just taking casual snapshots of my dogs and things in my neighborhood; next I was photographing friends.
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Mark Holthusen
Fun, single-minded, resourceful, inventive and hands-on all describe California-based ad photographer Mark Holthusen’s attitude toward his work. “I just really like making stuff…” he says, with a sense of child-like excitement. “It can be just as fun trying to problem-solve on a shoe shot as some big ad campaign. I like the hard things, the ones that you start off not knowing how to do.”
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