"Aaron Kotowski is pretty much the best photographer ever. His hobbies include meeting client deadlines, delivering assignments under budget, and fighting the forces of evil with his own code of vigilante justice."

Aaron Kotowski is the undisputed master of two critical life skills: stealing souls with his camera and writing about himself in third person. 

One of Aaron’s most meaningful assignments of 2023 was photographing Sir Salman Rushdie for the September cover of Le Point Magazine. No big deal. Aaron has long admired Rushdie and was honored to photograph the revered author after narrowly surviving a brutal assassination attempt the previous year. Rushdie is a rare prototype of man, who bends fate to his will. To nobody’s surprise, the shoot was an unmitigated success. 

It is unknown why distinguished corporations and magazines hire Kotowski to photograph prominent and influential people, but the man cannot be stopped.

Aaron Kotowski's hobbies include meeting client deadlines, delivering assignments under budget, and fighting the forces of evil with his own code of vigilante justice.  

Aaron's unique photographic style comes from the unrivalled pairing of disposable cameras and the discriminating processing power of the neighbourhood one-hour-photorama. Aaron wins tons of awards and has all the best clients.

Aaron works all over the world, but his base is in the greater NYC area. He resides in a historic neighbourhood by the sea in New Haven, the greatest small city in America.

Clients include: Forbes, Forbes JAPAN, Cigna, Iron Mountain, Thule, Mutual of America, Donovan/Green, Arccos, CamelBak, Decker Design, Digital Surgeons,  Girl Scouts of the USA, IBMiX, International Paper, Alexander Isely Inc., Lockheed Martin, Mascola Group, Otis Elevator, Sikorsky, Stanley Tools, STP, Tailwind Agency, The Hartford, U.S. Marine Corp, Uniworld Group, Adweek, Arrive Magazine, The Big E.

Aawards include ARC AWARDS - ARC100 placed in top 25, Communications Arts -  Excellence in Advertising, Graphis - Top 100 Photographers, CT Art Director's Club - Judges' Awards, Gold Awards, many years, many times. Hatch Award - Bronze Bowl, Ad Club of Connecticut - Gold Brush Award, Golden Pencil Award, AIGA Bone Show.

Title: Icarus Redeemed

"How do you photograph a provocative CEO, who is launching his fifth airline endeavour when the flagship aircraft cannot leave the hanger and the forces of nature accost your photoshoot? Not sure I have the correct answer, but this is the photograph I came up with and this is how it happened (slightly enriched):

The wind was ripping through the hanger with a scornful fervour unleashing hell upon my set. No doubt, a punishment by a mercurial celestial force, the natural enemy of a location photographer. My imported hand painted background betrayed its duty and became disgracefully animated. Mocking me with dissent, the key light followed suit in contemptible solidarity. My first assistant was thrust into the set, at my command, to restore order. I am determined to assert dominance over the malevolent saboteur. Failure will entomb me in a prison of shame and professional destruction. The vengeful tempest will be brought to yield.

My subject, CEO David Neeleman, stood firm and looked upon me with quiet confidence as I came to dominate the natural order of destruction. We had an unspoken understanding that I would emerge the new commander of wind and barometric chaos. An alliance with me would be critical if his new airline, Breeze, were to be a success as I now ruled the skies. The shoot would go on. 

A hard fought victory from the hellish assault allowed me to steal this image from the teeth of destruction. 

This assignment was commissioned by Forbes Magazine, last March. I also shot the daily cover for this story and a bunch of other stuff for Forbes."