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Posing families for real

By Stephanie Boozer
4.25.2019 News

Although she had a successful photography business, Kim Hildebrand realized her client sessions were no longer bringing as much joy to her. So she took a leap, relinquishing her studio in favor of conducting sessions in clients’ homes and reducing her images per session from 500 to about 130. The strategic retool of her business has been phenomenal in terms of profitability and personal happiness.Here, Hildebrand shares advice for helping families get comfortable and find natural poses in... Continue Reading >

How Lisa Holloway cultivated a high-end client base

By Jeff Kent
May 2019 issue Profiles

Recognized as one of the premier portrait artists serving metro Las Vegas, Lisa Holloway’s business runs off of an enthusiastic client base and strong referrals in an affluent market. Her portrait sales averages are well into the five figures. It took courage to make her way to this enviable place in her career.Holloway started out like a lot of portrait photographers who build a business through trial and error, and she experienced many of the same frustrations as any fledgling... Continue Reading >

Kim Hildebrand found her niche in in-home family portraits

By Stephanie Boozer
May 2019 issue Profiles

About four years ago, Kim Hildebrand ditched the safety net of her studio rental and opted to photograph clients in their homes. What made this transition a gamble is that Hildebrand is located in Seattle. The challenges inherent in the city's famously moody weather are well known, but perhaps not so famous is Seattle's residential architecture, which includes charming older homes with low ceilings and small windows.Kim Hildebrand © Kim HildebrandThe studio had been a ready alternative... Continue Reading >

Photo gallery: Series chronicles father’s cancer treatment

Images by Tawny Chatmon
April 2019 issue Galleries

When Tawny Chatmon's father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he and her mom moved in with Chatmon and her family while he was being treated. During that time, Chatmon decided to chronicle her dad's treatment via a series of photographs. "All of us felt certain that I'd be recording his victory over cancer," she says. "But that's not the way it turned out."RELATED: Learn more about Tawny Chatmon's journey to photographic art.  Continue Reading >

Tribute to American portrait photography

By Amanda Arnold
April 2019 issue News

© Judy HostExhibition considers portraits past and presentMore than 40 photographers’ works were hung for the exhibition “Portraits Americana: A Brief Survey of American Portrait Photography.” The show honoring American portrait photography was curated by Glenn Rand for the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.The exhibition, which ran from November 2018 through January 2019, included portraits by renowned photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Gordon... Continue Reading >

Tawny Chatmon finds fulfillment in driving cultural change

By Robert Kiener
April 2019 issue Profiles

Change Agent“My heart wasn’t in it anymore.” That’s how Tawny Chatmon remembers feeling about her commercial photography career after her father died. Sitting in her spacious studio, the basement  of her Upper Marlboro, Maryland, home, she chokes back a tear as she remembers the self-selected assignment that changed her life.“After my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he and my mother moved in with us here while he was being treated. I decided to chronicle his treatment... Continue Reading >

John and Coleen Graybill revisit an ancestor’s passion project

By Eric Minton
April 2019 issue Profiles

Mary Lou Slaughter was a schoolgirl in Seattle when her teacher mentioned a photograph of Mary Lou and her Native American grandmother that was displayed at the county fair. Learning of her heritage, classmates of Mary Lou subjected her to name-calling, spittle, and bullying for being a “dirty old Indian.” Slaughter shunned her heritage until, at 50, she witnessed her son’s talent for wood carving. Embracing her indigenous background, Slaughter became a master basket weaver. Now 80 years... Continue Reading >

Capture your subject’s true colors

By Hernan Rodriguez
2.13.2019 News

1. Understand your subjectMaking good portraits relies heavily on photographers' personal perceptions and judgements, neither of which is related to the technical aspects of photography. Good portraiture is a display of who the subject believes himself or herself to be as well as an interpretive expression of who the photographer believes the subject to be.Sometimes these perceptions can end up on the opposite side of the spectrum. This is why it's important to get to know a subject before... Continue Reading >

Mark Seliger heads up McDonald’s portrait project

By Amanda Arnold
February 2019 issue News

Is McDonald’s the tie that binds? Editorial and portrait photographer Mark Seliger created a documentary-style portrait series for the restaurant chain that highlights both the diversity and the commonality of the restaurant’s patrons.The idea for the series evolved during a brainstorming session between Seliger and ad agency We Are Unlimited. “We put out there this idea that everybody has something in common,” he says, “and the idea that you can go into a McDonald’s and there’s... Continue Reading >

Why Tony Hewitt’s photography business thrives on diversification

By Jeff Kent
February 2019 issue Profiles

"It’s fair to say that I’m not someone who likes to sit still.”Anyone who’s met Tony Hewitt wouldn’t argue that. An Australian Institute of Professional Photography Grand Master of Photography, Hewitt is former Australian Photographer of the Year with a resume full of accolades. The Perth, Australia-based photographer started out in weddings, covering about 1,000 of them before evolving more into portrait work, then commercial photography, then fine art, landscape, and aerial... Continue Reading >
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