Digital Photo Pro magazine did a feature story and ran our work on the cover of this month’s issue.

Story text here, images with the print magazine layout below (I always prefer the print mag layouts to the more utilitarian website layouts)

The story is one of the more thoughtful one’s I’ve seen, with a lot of attention on the OWS portrait series.

We have a ton of stuff in the pipeline right now, so will have a lot of press and media projects coming out of the studio soon.

It’s a great time, ramping up quickly this year on both the photography and the motion content side. It’s an amazing time to be creating art and media content.

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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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