Favorite Images of 2010

Wow, there are less than 5 hours left of 2010! I feel like time keeps flying by faster each year...don't you? It was fun browsing through all of my images from 2010 as I pulled a few out to share with you all. Some of these never made it to the blog, but you may remember seeing a few of them. Here are my "Favorite Images of 2010" (in NO particular order):















Which one do you like the best?

Photographer #195: Tony Kelly

Tony Kelly, 1975, Ireland, lives in Barcelona and works all over the world. He makes sexually charged photographes that are so bright in colour that they resemble candies that might either be sweet or sour. His carreer started as a papparazzo and later as a warzone photographer. Now Tony is all into the fashion photography, although most of the work evolves around nude women. Tony likes to shock a little, but it needs to be a shock with a smile. Humour is one of the key points in Kelly's photography. As a photographer that prefers working on location as to a closed studio it is no wonder he is slightly in love with the plastic, sunny and "cultureless" Los Angeles. The following images come from Toy Story, El Pais Miss World and Hollywood.




Website: www.tonykellyphotography.com

Photographer #194: Sonja Braas

Sonja Braas, 1968, Germany, lives and works in New York. In her series The Quiet of Dissolution Sonja shows us various natural catastrophes, but in a way that we have never seen before. The viewer begins to wonder how she got so close to the disasters and how she continuously get's a certain serenity in her photographs. Sonja actually builds the scenes herself in a studio as idealized models of reality. In her series You Are Here she took pictures of zoological gardens and natural science museums and put them alongside images of real landscapes. This confuses the viewer when attempting to figure out what is real and what is not. The following images come from the series The Quiet of Dissolution, Forces and You Are Here.




Website: www.sonjabraas.com

Photographer #193: Ross McDonnell

Ross McDonnell, 1979, Ireland, is a photographer and filmmaker. In his series Joyrider he documented the youngsters in Ballymun, a suburb of Dublin where the infra-structure is lacking, showing the transition of anti-social behaviour to criminality amongst the young people living in the shadows of these Ballymun towers. In the series Turkana, Ross focused on the impact of climate change on the people living in the Northwestern part of Kenya. In Turkana food-aid has become more reliable than farming. The following images come from the series Joyrider, The Afghans and Turkana.




Website: www.rossmcdonnell.com

Augustus Family | OC Family Photographer

Kaz and Shelley have a beautiful family! Those girls are going to have the guys lining up for dates in a few years! And sweet Hunter, the only boy...such a good kid and rounds out the family nicely! We were lucky to have a break in some rain and met over at Huntington Central Park for their session...they made my job easy and it was a lot of fun hanging out with them! Here's a peek at their session:


Photographer #192: Carl Kleiner

Carl Kleiner, 1983, is a photographer from Sweden. He is most known for his still-life photography. For Ikea he made the images for a cookbook called Hembakat är Bäst. The images show exactly the ingredients and quantities that are required for the recipe. Carl's photography is colorful, graphic and experimental. He doesn't limit himself, he uses materials ranging from paper to eggs and from clothes to dolls. The following images come from Ikea, X Y / Goran Kajfes and Cafe M - Beirut.




Website: www.carlkleiner.com

Photographer #191: Irene Andessner

Irene Andessner, 1954, Austria, has been focusing on the self-portrait since 1988. In the beginning she realised her portraits through paintings, but from the mid-90's in tableaux vivants, photography and video stagings. She gets into the roles of various women such as the Black Madonna, Rachael from the movie Bladerunner or Marlene Dietrich. Not only women are being portrayed, in 2006 she interpreted the traditional but questionably authentic portrait of Mozart. She released the Book I Am Irene Andessner which shows her works between 1995 and 2003. I Am (present tense) because she herself gives absolutely contemporary expression to historical figures. The following images come from the series Citylights [Vienna], Ida/Artemis/Merian and Donne Illustri.




Website: www.andessner.com
(Video in German)

Photographer #190: Marco Grob

Marco Grob, 1965, Switserland is a portrait and fashion photographer. He has photographed countless celebrities, from Obama to Clinton and from Samuel L. Jackson to Jeff Bridges. His work has appeared in Vogue and Time amongst many other magazines and he has shot for clients as Nike, Tag Heuer and Louis Vuitton. Marco's portraits are stylish and classic. The following images come from his portfolio's Portraits, Portraits Archive and Editorials.




Website: www.marcogrob.com

Photographer #189: Nirrimi Hakanson

Nirrimi Hakanson, 1992, Australia is a very young photographer who started with photography at age 13. She is very productive, which is visible when looking at the various websites she has, including her weblog filled with amazing images and personal stories of her photographic life. Nirrimi has already done the winter campaign for Diesel in New York. Her work is fresh, youthfull and sexy, but at the same time they are very mature and professional. The following images come from her portfolio's For Love, For Living and For Money.




Website: www.theroadishome.com

Photographer #188: Francesco Giusti

Francesco Giusti, 1969, Italy, is a freelance documentary photographer. He made documentary work in many countries, from his homeland Italy to Congo, and from Haïti to Egypt. For the series Sapologie he photographed members of the SAPE (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes). These men dress with a refined and unique style and bring some glamour into their humble environments. In the series Hotel Industria, which was also published as a book in 2006, he focused on ex-industrial areas on the outskirts of Milan that were transformed into shelters by illegal immigrants. The following images come from the series Sapologie, Hotel Industria and Agadez.




Website: www.francescogiusti.com

Photographer #187: Mikael Jansson

Mikael Jansson, 1958, Sweden is a fashion and celebrity photographer. He has shot campaigns for clients as DKNY, Dior and Calvin Klein. He also shoots fashion editorials for Vogue and Interview magazine. Celebrities as Rihanna, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have appeared in front of his camera. Next to his photographic work Mikael also made several commercial video's. The following images come from the portfolio's Fashion Images, Fashion Images 2 and Celebrities.




Website: www.wilsonwenzel.com