Category Archives: PERSONAL PROJECTS

LMO advertising out of Washington D.C.  hired me to photograph a recruiting campaign for the United States Coast Guard. I shot for three days in and around Miami Beach, Florida working with multiple assets and guardsmen while they performed their daily duties.

These are images that support the branding of a new startup product LiquiSlim 24. We shot for two days at a resort in Palm Springs, CA. The direction was to make the product present, but secondary promoting a healthy lifestyle.

I have been contracted by BASF to produce imagery that supports various pest control products. It has been great creating original content that supports cutting edge technology.

Vermillion Studios is not just a place for in house production. We welcome all companies to utilize our space for their needs. For more information on renting space, drop us a message info@vermillionphoto.com

Panos of the three places where I spent most of my time this last year.

Recently, I had the pleasure of photographing creative alumni for ASU Magazine. Here are two tear sheets featuring Richard Laugharn and Steven Yazzie. Richard Laugharn is a fine art photographer and the owner of Fine Art Framing in Tempe, AZ. Steven Yazzie is a multimedia artist and owner of video production company Digital Preserve in Phoenix, AZ.

I had the opportunity to work with MITEL to create a wide range of photographs of their products, business communication solutions. MITEL is in the telephone business and specializes with integrating networks and phones to help offices communicate quicker and more effectively. This project involved several location scouts, a large crew and two separate days of shooting on-location and in the studio.

We created a business to business portfolio, product portfolio and some artistic shots for graphic applications. The scope of the project was large and reminded me of the type of projects I produced when I was carving out my name in Phoenix.

Since the shoot, MITEL has merged with a competitor, Aastra, to hopefully corner the business communication market. I look forward to working with the newer version of this company in the near future.

While photographing a private political event in Sedona last March, I met Jerry Hirsch, Chairman, The Lodestar Foundation. He was clad in a brown blazer with a long white ponytail and a turquoise bolo tie, which made his stand out amongst the international backdrop of the event. We had a great conversation and he mentioned he had a project that I would be interested in. Several months later we met to discuss his ideas about creating a book about his Spanish Colonial furniture collection. Jerry is my neighbor so we met at his home to look at the pieces he would like photographed. Jerry’s home is something like a very comfortable museum, containing artifacts from across the seas, beautiful tapestries and several outdoor garden areas with water and trellises.

Due to the preciousness and fragility of these handmade relics we decided to bring the studio to his home and photograph the furniture one by one. Our trusty intern, Laura Marks, was in charge of logging each piece’s caption including title, material, time period, location and provenance. She was also the designer that worked on the book layout and typesetting.

This book was a collaborative project that required several rounds of fact-checking with dealers, commissioning a historical essay, and writing a forward with Jerry to acquaint readers with the contents of his collection. Jerry’s ultimate goal for this hard cover, 80 page book is to use it as a portfolio of his collection to send to potential buyers and dealers.

I worked on a project like this one years ago with the Phoenix Art Museum, which was a book titled “The Art of Turned-Wood Bowls”. In those days, books like these were produced by McMurray Publishing and I did the photography portion. Now, I use the same program to develop the digital files and create a book layout in studio.

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