Study NY’s FW11 line:

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

photo: by Graeme Mitchell

Styling: Molly Williams
MU: Jordy Poon
Hair: Kelsey Osterman w/ Cutler
Photo Assistant: Nyra Lang
Producer: Sonia Manalili
Model: Mirielle w/ APM
Shot on location at Study’s NYC studio.

For Adidas’ David Beckham FW10 line:

photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas

photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas

photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas

photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas
Stylist: Kemal and Karla w/ The Wall Group
Groomer: Cheri Keating w/ The Wall Group
Photo Assistants: Blake Williams, Charles Lee, Erika Shisler
Grip+Lighting Rental: Samys Camera Hollywood
Shot on location in LA

Just finished Study by Tara St. James‘ FW10 book.  Another beautiful season.   And we decided to put those flower still lives I did recently to use by making diptychs.  These will be printed large on newsprint…love love working on stuff like this.

photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell

photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell

photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell

photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell

photo: Study FW10 by Tara St. James. ©Graeme Mitchell

Hair and make-up: Jessa Blades
Model: Nykhor w/ Red

These are from a job shooting portraits of a legal company for their marketing needs.

photo: ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: ©Graeme Mitchell.

photo: ©Graeme Mitchell.

The look book for Study by Tara St James’ SS10 line.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

Study Clothing, SS10. ©Graeme Mitchell.

An Adidas job from this summer.  Not retouched.

photo: Adidas Style Essentials FW09, ©Graeme Mitchell

photo: Adidas Style Essentials FW09, ©Graeme Mitchell

Someone sent me these 3 videos on Mario Testino (thanks, Brandon!), and they literally came across my phone as I was looking at the current Testino spread in V magazine featuring Natalia.  It was all fitting, since I was thinking of how Testino’s work is quit simple in many ways but that it nearly always works, and how he definitely deserves a nod for what he’s done over the years.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

From V:

photo: Natalia in V #58, S09.  ©Mario Testino.

And an old favorite add that Testino shot for Gucci back in the good ol’days of Tom Ford.  I believe this was from ’98, but don’t hold me to that.

photo: from Gucci campaign (1998?). ©Mario Testino.

Sneak peak at Covet Spring 09.

photo: Covet S09, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Covet S09, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Covet S09, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

photo: Covet S09, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008.

Shot at East Coast Studio
Models: Ilona w/ Major and Dylan w/ Next
Stylist: Sara Dunn
Hair: Sarah Potempa (w/ Wall Group)
M.U.: Meredith Baraf (w/ Wall Group)
Photo Assistant: Nyra Lang

And while on the topic, I was recently emailed this picture of, Tara St. James, the creative director of Covet and I at an opening.  Tara said, “we look scared!”  I said, “no, just very sober.”

photo: Tara St. James and I at the Aperture Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, Nov 2008.

I was talking with a friend at W+K, and she was genuinely proud of the new courage spot they’d put out recently for Nike.  Click here to see it bigger.

Nike/W+K is one of the reigning kings of transcending product and making their product seem nearly intangible…or as tangible as being a hero in a Rocky Balboa manner of being, I guess.

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This of course entails heaps of bathos, but so what.

video: Nike “Courage” tv spot, done by W+K Portland.

Kodak asked if I would let them use an image for their booth at the upcoming Photo Plus Expo.  I did mull it over for a bit but in the end obliged with this shot. I wanted to give them something that I personally don’t think could have been done on anything other than black and white film.

photo: from Bolivia series. © Graeme Mitchell 2008.

And, yes, this was indeed shot on Kodak film, Tri-x.  And for those photo dorks out there, notice the increased edge of density where the image meets the negative border (i.e. edge effects).  Call it a fault, or call it an interesting byproduct of using a paraminophenol/non-solvent developer invented in, like, circa 1890.

A scan of an ad I did for Covet, found it towards the front of the Sept 08 issue of Zink:

Unfortunately, one of my favorite parts of this photo was a big-noir-Hitchcockian bird pasted ominously in the sky like an act of God collage, but, alas, it was cropped of the top to make page dimensions.  Oh, the crop, how it can break my heart.

It surprises me I haven’t posted this before…

photo: Jean Shrimpton, evening dress by Cardin, Paris studio, January 1970. © Richard Avedon.

This is an update to this recent post. It’s possible you’ve already seen these as I also put them up on my portfolio page. Right now I’m waiting for the final edit from the creative director, but during this wait I’ll begin working casually on a few of the images that interested me immediately. I’ll play with different options for final prints, let them sit, digest, rework them, repeat. So by the time I do get the final edit I have a clear direction as to how I plan on interpreting the negative and can get it out to them quickly.

photo: Covet Spring ’08, ©Graeme Mitchell, 2007.

photo: Covet Spring ’08, ©Graeme Mitchell, 2007.