Coming soon in the blog we will have some new work and a behind-the-scenes series, but now a couple new press pieces.

First, an article in the latest Hasselblad Bulletin on the OWS Portrait Series.

Hasselblad Bulletin, “Faces of Protest” Portraits by August Bradley

And recently the luxury art and culture magazine Le Grand did a retrospective story in their printed edition.

In addition to the interview, some of the info for the story they pulled from old articles (nice to see they did a lot of research, but should have checked the dates on the articles — particularly when they said I’ve only been shooting for “a few years”. That was from my first article). It’s a beautiful magazine, you can flip through it here or see the story pages below.

Le Grand Magazine digital rendition of Print Issue (p. 61+ for August Bradley Story)

And here are the pages from the print mag, click on thumbnail for larger view…

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The rapid viral momentum of the “99 Faces of Occupy Wall St.” portrait series has been fascinating to watch.

It was propelled by being run with background articles in the The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The New York Times Lens Blog (one of the most respected photography presentations), and many others driving tens of thousands of daily unique visitors to the website. It all happened in less than two weeks, here’s a summary:

The site went live late on a Wednesday and posted I to my blog, Facebook, and Twitter account (@augustbradley). That Thursday and Friday most of the Occupy movement blogs, twitter accounts, and digital publications were posting it including a home page post on AdBusters, the media publication that inspired the occupy movement in the first place. That sent a big spike in traffic and hundreds of Twittter tweets and Facebook posts.

The following Monday The Washington Post and New York Times both expressed interest in working it into their online publication schedules. Then the next morning the police raided and evicted the OWS camp and the story hit a new level of urgency and interest.

The Washington Post ran it on their Arts & Culture blog immediately, pulling comments from my project description and from my blog post into their article (The Washington Post “Arts” Story). The New York Times Lens Blog, one of the most influential and widely followed photography blogs, called asking for images re-sized to their specs within three hours, and they did a twenty minute interview for their article which ran the next morning (NY Times “Lens” Gallery Story).

This led to discussions about the series on Slate, The New Yorker, and many others.

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I’ll be doing a symposium with some prominent people in the industry at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, one of the leading photo festivals in the country. The panel will be on moving into film and motion work from still photography. Please join us. Here’s the official description…

HD Video PRO & Digital PhotoPro Magazines Present:

The CONVERGENCE CONFERENCE

Vincent LaForet, August Bradley and other photographers who have expanded their markets by learning how to add impressive audio/visual content to their list of client services will discuss this important new issue. Alex Tasch, Art Producer at EuroRSCG Agency in New York, Zana Woods, Senior Photo Editor at Wired Magazine and Howard Bernstein President of Bernstein Andriulli Representatives will join the discussion.  Details Here

Tuesday 3/29
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The Blurb Stage at Korakia Pensione

Digital Photo Pro magazine was kind enough to include an article on my work in their “Masters Issue” this year, on newsstands now (and on the web, but the article looks much better in the print layout here). The title I believe came form some elaborate ideas I layed out in terms of what’s to come in my work, but none of that is in the article (nor in this post, but stay tuned).  Here are some additional interview outtakes that did not make it into the article:

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DPP Mag: Your style is so unique, and even more so for a ‘commercial photographer”. Commercial photography and fine art photography are often mutually exclusive. How have you managed to combine the two worlds and get away with it?

AB: I’m not sure I’ve gotten away with anything, I certainly loose a lot of jobs because my work does not fit in the right slots. But I was never after those jobs in the first place, I wouldn’t have entered the field to do those things. I make the work that I find meaningful and engaging and then put it out there. We’re all defined by what we show the world, so we’re only going to get hired for what’s in our portfolios. I showed the kind of work that I wanted to do, and those who connected with that work responded. I never heard from the rest, which is fine with me.

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“Victor by Hasselblad” magazine just ran a “Masters Portfolio” on my work. With all these magazine profiles, they do long interviews and pull parts from the exchange. Below are a couple outtakes from the interview they conducted. These questions address post-production and personal projects. continued below…

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Popular Photography Magazine has run a beauty story on how I lit the image below – I walk through the entire lighting setup. Full article here.

The celebrated Digitális Fotó Magazine has a cover story and in-depth article on August Bradley’s work in the new issue, now on European newsstands. View the full page spreads here.

For the third consecutive year, August Bradley has received the “Graphis Gold Award” and has been selected to be included in the 2010 Graphis Photo Annual “honoring the year’s best photographs”.  For the 2010 book, two different series of images created by August were selected, for a total of seven images. The book will be on sale in 2010.  www.Graphis.com

Zoom, the Italian fine-art magazine, features a cover story on August Bradley’s work in their July issue on newsstands now. Zoom website link here and article PDF link here.

Datacolor, maker of the Spyder3 professional monitor and printer calibration tools, selects August Bradley for its “Friends With Vision” campaign. Tearsheet below from leading European photography magazine PROFIFOTO.

An interview with August Bradley and behind the scenes photo shoot video is featured on Hasselblad’s home page as part of the new interactive demonstration of the H3DII medium format camera system. See the “H3DII Virtual Experience” at  www.Hasselblad.com

August Bradley’s work is featured as the lead page in the 2009 PDN Photo Annual’s “Corporate Design/Photo Products” category. Every year PDN magazine presents its selection of the year’s best photography across seven categories in the Photo Annual. View full page here

Desktop Magazine, focused on the graphic design and creative communities, features a cover story on the work of August Bradley in the current issue on newsstands now.  Read the on-line version of the article here.

The Show at MOCA with August Bradley’s Photography alongside the new Louver Collection by Louis Verdad and the “fashion cinema” video installation by Robertino Fonseca was a fun evening with a lot of people and a lot of energy.  High profile guests included Marisa Tomei, Rose McGowan, Nicky Hilton, Nicole Richie, and Lisa Rinna. We also enjoyed meeting a wide variety of media and industry people.

There are discussions of this exhibit traveling to other cities after a few museums, galleries, and fashion industry producers saw the presentation DLAFW put on at MOCA.

Press Reviews & Stories:
NBC
Style.com
Maven’s of Fashion
Racked Los Angeles
SiTV

Popular art & design tastemaker NotCot.org and Fotoritim Magzine, a European art and photography authority, are both featuring the work of August Bradley.