CHICAGO ISSUE 653 Jun 2017

Marc Hauser Chicago

Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading architecture, interior & exterior, food & drink, people & lifestyle and portraiture photographers, as well as, rental studios, photographers' and illustrators' agents and photo & film production companies, currently working out of Chicago.

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Companies including Fortune Magazine, Toyota, Prada, Purina, Money Magazine, Time Inc., Club Cadet, Comcast, and Taste of Home Magazine, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

  • #AiWeiwei - exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, featuring his photographs from the 80s and 90s together with some recent social media-based installations. Until 2nd July at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
  • Robert Frank: Photos - exhibition focused on R.Frank's photographs from two books: 'The Americans' and 'Partida'. Until 20th August at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our editorial images were shot in natural light with a Leica camera by Marc Hauser, who was commissioned to go to Cuba back in the 80s, and went through many adventures to complete the assignment. He spent a week in Havana taking photos of street scenes and the Partagas Cigar Factory, the most famous cigar factory in Cuba. See the full story here

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