Architect magazine -Spacio Design

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The March issue is out with my portrait of Kiel and Shaunt.


Outtake. (Click image for full size.) © William Anthony

Spacio Design

Shaunt Yemenjian and Kiel Famellos-Schmidt (Click image for full size.) © William Anthony

Yesterday, I made the long drive up to Fresno to photograph Shaunt Yemenjian and Kiel Famellos-Schmidt from Spacio Design for Architect magazine. We met up, had lunch while discussing the photo and then wandered around downtown scouting for locations. Kiel recommended the view from the top of a nearby parking structure. When we got up to the top I completely forgot about the view from the top floor and began loving the view of the top floor. The light fixtures were straight out of the 1950s and I was being given a gift of good skies and light. We shot for an hour or so and I absolutely love the results.

Look for their story in the March issue.


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Architect Magazine - December '09

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As mentioned before, I photographed architect Michael Lehrer for Architect Magazine for the December 2009 "Best Practices" section.

More here.

Michael Lehrer - Architect

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Earlier this week I photographed award-winning architect and art teacher Michael Lehrer at his studio in Silverlake for Architect Magazine. It's a wonderful, open-floor former manufacturing building directly adjacent to a preschool. Michael is a big proponent of artistic "cross-pollination" and the value of playfulness in design. During the day, they open two huge garage doors and the studio is instantly filled with a soundtrack of children playing. I imagine some of those squeals and the laughter make it to the final design of some of their buildings.

Once a month, they order pizza and host a night of life-drawing. Also, there's a workshop where designers are encouraged to use their hands after hours of just their brains. The small, cramped little workshop has birthed composite resin chairs, end tables made from old catalogs and coffee tables with legs shaped like deer hooves.

Michael was a great subject. Open, playful and talkative, he made my job incredibly easy.

He also had two dogs, Lolita and Ginger. They had their photo taken as well. But you'll have to wait til the issue comes out to see them in their debut.


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Credits
Production Manager: Pamela Sunnarborg
Photo Assistant: Jeff Johnson

Architect Mag Cover - Oct. 2008 Issue

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The feature (and cover) I shot last September for Architect Magazine is currently on the stands.

The cover features Vivan Loftness of Carnegie Mellon University. The entire story is about "green" building construction and whether these new, more earth-friendly designs are truly living up to their promises of sustainability.

Architect Magazine - Steven Lewis

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Last week, I met and photographed architect Steven Lewis here in Los Angeles. Steven is the new President of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and will be featured in a Q & A in an upcoming issue.

On the Road - Washington D.C.

Me holding a camera? Or me scratching my head? You decide.(Click image for full size.) © William Anthony

The shoot in Philadelphia went great. Even had time to see the Rodin Museum afterwards. Today we had a day off in Washington D.C. before a shoot tomorrow. So we went to the National Mall. Pssshhh. Not even one Cinnabon!

On the Road - Pittsburgh, PA

Light test with lens flare. © William Anthony

We're currently on assignment again for Architect Magazine. (This time only five cities!) Today we shot a portrait at the beautiful campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Specifically at the very cool "Intelligent Workplace" laboratory where they research sustainable construction techniques and technology including those like this solar photovoltaic panel.

Next up—Philly, PA.

Personal Work - Pop

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While on assignment for Architect Magazine earlier this year, we met "Pop" in Baltimore. Pops ran the construction elevator at the Silo Point project. All Pop does, all day, is run the elevator. Up. Down. Up. Down. Need to know which floor has a porta-potty? Pop simply points to the dry erase board to his left while he leans forward and looks downward to make sure the floor of the elevator car lines up with the poured concrete floor of each level. Need help loading three cases of camera gear onto the elevator? Pop knows just the right (younger) construction workers to help you with that. Pop never leaves the elevator. And his job description is pretty simple. Open door. Close door. Up. Down.

Interestingly, Pop doesn't take a lunch break. He takes his lunch with him. Hanging from the metal grating sides of the elevator is a thermos full of hot coffee—it was in the mid-30s when we were there, a little colder on the upper floors in the wind—and his lunch pail. He eats on the fly, literally.


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Everyone on the job site seemed to love Pop. Or at least respect him. After the official portrait shoot of the architect on the 23rd floor, on our way down, I asked Pops if I could take his picture. He smiled from ear-to-ear and the cold, rickety, mud-covered elevator car warmed up a few degrees.

I was glad to break his routine if even for just a few minutes. But as soon as I finished, he turned back around, hand on the lever.

Up. Down. Up. Down.

Architect Magazine - April '08 Issue

My work is featured in the April 2008 issue of Architect Magazine. The cover photo is of Management Consultant Gay Herron photographed at HOK Architects in St. Louis, MO. As mentioned in a previous post, we traveled to eight cities in eleven days to shoot this portrait feature. 

All the hard work paid off. The issue looks good.

Eights cities. Ten portraits. Eleven days.

Architect Lynn Befu in San Francisco, CA © William Anthony

Just got back from a feature assignment for Architect Magazine. Myself and my producer, Pamela, traveled across the United States on a seriously compacted schedule. It looked something like this:

SanFranciscoDallasNewOrleansStLouisBaltimoreNewYorkChicagoBoston

Actually, it felt exactly like that. The usual schedule was wake up call, check-out, cab to location, scout, set up, shoot, strike, cab to airport, turn off cell phone, fly, eat pretzels with ginger ale, land, turn cell phone on, cab to hotel, sleep. Repeat every day for 11 days. Only in two cities, NYC and SF did we stay two days and got some breathing room.

All hardships aside, we had great shoots. Wonderful people, great weather and only a few broken pieces of equipment. (Thanks American Airlines!) Speaking of American Airlines, apparently, I am an asshole. Or so says an unknown American Airlines baggage handler in SF, Dallas, New Orleans or St. Louis.


This may as well have said "Broken Items Inside." © William Anthony

I discovered this little gem hanging on my large Pelican 1650 rolling case housing my lighting kit. I didn't discover it til I was at La Guardia. So I am not sure which airport staff was so kind as to leave me their note of discontent. And the thing that kills me is my case was WELL below the 100 lbs maximum for checked baggage and one of only two oversized. (Sigh.)

The photographs came out great though, and well worth the effort. I'll post a few more shots here when the issue streets.

Credits
Producer: Pamela Sunnarborg
Art Director (Architect Magazine): Aubrey Altmann