Here are some images from a campaign Mark Katzman recently shot for The Ritz-Carlton's new luxury housing development called Creighton Farms. Situated in the Virginia hill country outside of Washington DC, Creighton Farms' multi-million dollar English tutor style homes will be surrounded by lush golf courses, vineyards and equestrian trails.
More images below the fold...
Check out the newly launched Michelob.com website which features lifestyle images by Jay Baker. Interactive design by Momentum St Louis.
More screen grabs from the website after the jump.
FK is pleased to have six images included in this year's CommArts Photo Annual, to be released in August.
SCOTT FERGUSON - An outtake from an advertising shoot for Bally's Casino Las Vegas
MARK KATZMAN - Five ambrotype portraits from Mark's series Tucker and Convention
Currently on display in the studio are 11 portraits from Mark Katzman's personal project "Tucker and Convention". Made using the historical wet-plate collodion process, the portraits evoke a sense of the socio-economic foundations of the St Louis everyman. The subjects are all passers-by photographed on the street in the vicinity of FK's former studio on North Tucker Blvd.
The wet-plate collodion process, commonly referred to as Ambrotype, requires the emulsion to be hand applied to a glass plate. The photograph must then be exposed and developed before the emulsion has a chance to dry. For this process to work outside of the studio Mark uses a custom portable darkroom installed in the back of his Suburban. Most subjects stayed for only one single photograph before continuing on their way.
Many more photographs from Tucker and Convention after the jump...
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For the past three years, Scott Ferguson has traveled to Nicaragua as a member of an ecumenical mission group working in El Samaritan. It was established a number of years ago by Nor and Caroline Syrker upon their return to Managua after years of exile in the United States during the Sandanista rule. Their primary efforts are focused on youth education and they currently fund three schools in Managua. Also, as a doctor, Nor is committed to improving the health care of the people. They have established a clinic on their property and are close to finishing a surgical unit.
The poverty in Nicaragua is numbing and as deplorable poverty is anywhere, it is especially devastating in a land where there is absolutely no safety net. The work goal is to provide, in a very small way, whatever is needed at the time of the trip; whether it is painting a school, building a wall, hauling materials. The mission goal of the trip is to be a witness to the people we see and visit, whether they are in the neighborhoods, in the schools, on the street, or in the hospitals. Despite the history of American involvement in the region, the people are wonderful to us, very open and in spite of their conditions, almost always have a smile.
- Scott Ferguson
Play the video to see some of Scott's photographs from Nicaragua
On a bushwhacking journey of three days into the nearly impenetrable reaches of Redwood National Park, Mark Katzman and environmentalist/adventure writer Tom Clynes set out to find - or try to find - the newly discovered Worlds Tallest Tree. The story, published in the current issue of Backpacker Magazine, is an attempt at discouraging people from hiking off-trail to find this tree. The distance from pavement to the area where the tree was found is not so great, but the task of getting there is extremely arduous. Our adventurers navigated through mazes of felled giants where trees become unconquerable walls and also, sometimes, bridges of passage. The impossibly thick undergrowth drove Mark, Tom and crew to hike up river - through the flow of water - because it was clear of vegetation. The exasperated end was as anticlimactic as they thought it might be. After all, at the base of so many immensely tall trees, how can you tell which is the tallest?
Many more photos after the jump.
In January, Mark and his crew spent a week shooting Purina packaging on location in Los Angeles for Checkmark (with agency creatives Bill Kumke & Todd Doyle). Part of the shoot was at a gorgeous private ranch & the rest on the beach. The weather (& dogs) cooperated beautifully. The crew left town just before a major wind storm that led to fires in Malibu.
More production photos after the jump.
2006 was a busy year for everyone at FK, especially for Mark Katzman. We've put together a portfolio of some of the best advertising and annual report projects that Mark shot in 2006 including work for Jack Daniel's, AT&T, Trump Entertainment, The Private Bank, Chase Park Plaza and more.
Download the PDF (9mb).
FK's stock photography boutique, HaloImages.com, is fast becoming a trusted source of cover art for publishing companies. Alice Hoffman's new soon-to-be-bestseller, Skylight Confessions, features a rights-managed stock image by Mark Katzman. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, Ken Dornstein's memoir is covered with a photo-illustration by Scott Ferguson.
More book covers from HaloImages.com after the jump.
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