The VOCAL Times – Everyone is a Photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
— Ansel Adams
The VOCAL Times: Behind & Beyond the Lens
Over the decades in artistic partnership as photographers, Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell have re ned an effortless blending of the advertising and ne art worlds that has earned them longstanding international acclaim. As Montalbetti Campbell the married couple are masters of the studio and post-production, creating uniquely provocative imagery that arrests the viewer to ignite a confusion of interest and hope.
Over the decades in artistic partnership as photographers, Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell have re ned an effortless blending of the advertising and ne art worlds that has earned them longstanding international acclaim. As Montalbetti Campbell the married couple are masters of the studio and post-production, creating uniquely provocative imagery that arrests the viewer to ignite a confusion of interest and hope.
For the 20th Anniversary issue of Who – Australia’s best-selling celebrity magazine – Montalbetti & Campbell were engaged to create an elaborate double gatefold insert entitled Feast of the Stars, with twenty accompanying After Party portraits of the dream guest list. With the background options shot in New York and star-talent in Sydney under styling of Cassandra Scott-Finn, daily photo additions were sent to CREAM Studios for retouching and incorporation into the nal, glorious image.
Montalbetti & Campbell were commissioned to develop an advertising campaign re- ecting the elevated services of All Nippon Air- ways. Working closely with their producers at IS Production and Creative Director Jonathan Teo, this extensive shoot was broken into inde- pendent schedules with the airplane, tarmac and red carpet developed in 3D by CREAM Studios, while the cherry blossom petals were shot at Mount Fuji, Japan. Talent was photographed mid-air to create a feeling of lightness, then sent to CREAM for post-production and inclusion onto the background skies, having been selected from the Montalbetti & Campbell stock library.
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The VOCAL Times – Everyone is a Photographer
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
― Abraham Lincoln
The VOCAL Times – TheGoodLife!
Brooklyn-based boutique lifestyle agency TheGood Life! specializes in seamlessly blending top-tier marketing opportunities into experiences that look and feel like play more than they do work; after all their mot-to is #WeMakeItNice!
Brooklyn-based boutique lifestyle agency TheGoodLife! specializes in seamlessly blending top-tier marketing opportunities into experiences that look and feel like play more than they do work; after all their mot-to is #WeMakeItNice!
The agency’s most recent activation, The Goodlife! Hideout, brought them to Aspen, Colorado, where they applied their unique expertise along the cross section of action sports and urban culture to the Winter X Games. One of the industry’s tent-pole events, Winter X is an important activation opportunity but also one where it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle.
Avoiding the shuffle altogether has been the key to The- GoodLife! Hideout’s success. Debuting the concept two years ago, The Hideout provides A-list athletes, musicians, image makers, and industry personnel a place of respite away from the crowds and marketing mania of X Games, which then in turn creates a market- ing opportunity all its own. Within the Hideout’s cap- tive environment, TheGoodLife! carefully curates brand partners that will only enhance not distract guests. Past Hideouts featured onsite tattooing by Oliver Peck and haircuts from Frank’s Chop Shop, hospitality sponsors like Sailor Jerry and PBR and guests ranging from Olympic medalists to Santigold, Diplo, and Bun B.
For TheGoodLife! Hideout 2015, the agency partnered with global fabrication giant Avery Dennison to create a custom apparel pop-up shop on premises. Collaborating with Avery Dennison to create a vast array of The- GoodLife! branded photo transfers from photographers Ricky Powell, Dean Blotto Gray, Cole Barash, Laura Austin, Craig Wetherby, Eddie Grams, Meg Haywood Sullivan, and Gabe L’Heureux, as well as custom patches, fonts, emojis and more, TheGoodLife! was able to promote their own brand while introducing Avery’s capabilities to the snow sports world and stoking out the who’s who of Aspen in the process. Just a handful of people who customized The GoodLife! apparel at the Hideout include X Game gold medalist snowboarders Danny Davis and Mark Mc Morris, Olympians Louie Vito and Hannah Teter, ESPN personalities Jack and Luke Mitrani, pro surfer Coco Ho, musicians Jahphet Landis aka Roofeeo (TV on the Radio), TJ Mizell (A$AP Ferg) and many more.
In addition to the Custom Shop, TheGoodLife! hosted a gifting suite onsite at the Hideout in partnership with headphone and audio component brand the House of Marley and personal vaporizer brand G-Pen. Notable guests were gifted bluetooth speakers, headphones, and vaporizers upon completion of their custom appar- el, creating a takeaway experience like no other dur- ing X Games. Finally, a partnership Pacifico ensured all guests were properly refreshed throughout their visit to the Hideout.
TheGoodLife! was founded by Craig Wetherby and Tim Brodhagen in 2009 with the goal of bring- ing brands in action sports, entertainment, fashion, and music together to create experiences with 360 reso- nance for those immersed in those lifestyles and be- yond.
The VOCAL Times – ‘SKILLSET
Based in Sullivan County in the foothills of the Catskills, ’Skilled is a one-stop shop for photographers and creative directors, offering location, production, casting and catering services to the creative industries. For last season’s Kate Spade Saturdays campaign shot by Cass Bird, ‘Skilled supported with finding them the perfect backdrop in upstate New York to create the perfect country living experience.
Based in Sullivan County in the foothills of the Catskills, ’Skilled is a one-stop shop for photographers and creative directors, offering location, production, casting and catering services to the creative industries. For last season’s Kate Spade Saturdays campaign shot by Cass Bird, ‘Skilled supported with finding them the perfect backdrop in upstate New York to create the perfect country living experience.
‘Skilled Productions was founded in 2013 by Ellen Jong, an artist, and Hali Friehling, a photo editor, producer and art buyer. Friehling is a local whose family owns a stable and ranch in Bethel, a stone’s throw from where the 1969 Woodstock festival was held. After working for more than a decade in the city, she returned to Bethel to start a family on the shore of Kauneunga (White) Lake. Jong purchased a house in Mongaup Valley along with her marketing genius husband. She divides her time between a Chinatown apartment and her upstate home / studio.
Jong and Friehling had worked as photo shoot pro- ducers at various times, and both had spent years on one or the other side of the camera. The two also had a deep appreciation for the beauty and diversity of the Catskills. A landscape of rivers (the noble Delaware delineates one of the county’s borders) and lakes, richly wooded and with a seemingly endless skyline of hill after rolling hill, Sullivan County is paradise for a photographer or creative director looking for a ru- ral setting. Only two hours from the city, it offers a mix of settings from deep woods to open fields, wide lakes to trout streams, farmland, hunter’s shacks to sprawling lakeside homes, a dramatic hydroelectric dam and an airport straight out of Mad Men.
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The VOCAL Times – Jenna Putnam
Jenna has been taking photographs and writing from a young age. Born in Hawaii and raised in Southern California, Jenna moved to Los Angeles in 2008 where she became an assistant editor for a local music magazine. She soon devel- oped an interest in photography and began teaching herself through the medium of film.
Jenna Putnam is an American photographer and writer based in New York City. Her style has been described as raw and evocative, extracting a sensual yet confident vulnerability from her subjects.
Jenna has been taking photographs and writing from a young age. Born in Hawaii and raised in Southern California, Jenna moved to Los Angeles in 2008 where she became an assistant editor for a local music magazine. She soon devel- oped an interest in photography and began teaching herself through the medium of film.
In 2011, she moved to New York City to further pursue a career in photography. She has since been published in Oyster, The Fashionisto and many other publications. She shot her first advertising campaign in 2013 for Rag& Bone’s “DIY Project”. Sh's also been featured as a guest writer and photographer for Leica Blog.
She is currently focused on shooting portraits and fashion, as well as writing poetry and short stories.
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