The outtakes/ Kings of Convenience

I already told you here about these guys and how tired they were.

Well I just found this outtake from the aftershoot coffee when Erlend felt asleep and Eirik started fooling around with Brutus. And before you ask: Yes, I give names to my cameras, the rollei 35 is Brutus, for obvious reasons.

Atta Kim/ Photographer for Harper’s Bazaar korea

I was recently commissioned by the korean edition of Harper’s Bazaar along with their NY-correspondant extraordinaire Julie Choi, to shoot a portrait of Master-photographer Atta Kim for their Korean power issue.

I was terribly stressed since it was the first time I had to portray a photographer whose work really ( really!!!) impressed me, but Atta’s extreme kindness and patience eventually allowed me to calm down.

Below a bigger version of the image.

And an outtake that I kinda like

Bits and pieces/ where the miracle happens…

Now that 2010 is in full swing again,help me keep these good friends of mine happy!!!

Btw, I was very happy to be featured on Mossless with a short itw, in english for once, right here

Bits and pieces/ Thurston Moore

And then one day, you are going to get free drinks and parasite the usual friday night art opening. And you find yourself a few inches away from Thurston Moore without your pocket camera ( that you don’t bring anymore with you on friday wild nights in memory of that very nice contax you once forgot in a cab…).

And that is when you find yourself punching your wife in the ribs till she let you borrow her crappy digital point and shoot….

I heart New York.

P.S: Thanks Ale for introducing me to my youth idol!

People stoppin’ by/ Ale d’Urso, photographer

My girl Ale d’Urso is in town, we studied photography in Paris together long time ago and haven’t seen each others for almost 5 years  so I had a blast hanging with her yesterday, checking some mythical rock photography at the Brooklyn Museum and then trying to drink our weight in beers, whining about the current state of our industry, how much digital made our lifes ( and especially our archives) a complete mess and how much we would love to shoot 4×5 on a regular basis…

Ale will be in New York until the first week of February looking for an agent and is always hungry for new gigs. Check out her work here!

Lulu Gainsbourg/ Musician for France-Amerique

bits and pieces/ if you could see what’s in my head…

P.S: I don’t do new year.

P.P.S: More editorial work coming soon, one I am especially excited about… Soon!

Bits and pieces/ My point & shoot diary

I take a lot of photograph with point & shoot camera, especially my awesome Rollei 35 my buddy Nicolas Heron offered me for Xmas last year ( Yes I got good friends!). I usually organize them in dytpiques and…… and….. and then don’t do anything with them. Which actually makes them a perfect match for my brand new “bit & pieces” category.More in 2010! Enjoy!

I finally added them to a new Scrapbook section on my website in order to showcase them bigger, Check it out!

The Journalists/ Jean-Cosme Delaloye

There is, maybe more in France though, an eternal feud going on between editors and photographers, but these last few years, I actually taken a liken to these adventures companions.

To start it out, the excellent Jean-Cosme Delaloye I already talked about in the previous post, one the pro-eminent member of the New York Franco-Helvetic community, editor-in-chief of the voice of my homeland France-Amerique, and correspondant for the voice of his homeland, the Geneva Tribune.

N.B: Jean-Cosme, don’t think you gonna get away with it, you photograph well BUT I really do need a raise. Bisoux!

People stoppin’ by/ Justin Boykin. Photographer