american southwest photographers Nov 2011

Brett Colvin and Weston Hall are a dynamic team of photographers who live and shoot in some of the most diverse geography in the world. Based in Utah they have over 25 years of combined experience shooting in the red rocks of Southern Utah, the austere Salt Flats, to the lush Northern Mountains.

A partial list of clients includes: VitroRobertson, BBDO, Ford, J. Walter Thompson, Bonneville Salt Flats Speedweek, Microsoft, Netscape and Sundance Film Festival. They have also shot in numerous exotic locations worldwide.

With a passion for creative and unique imagery at the heart of these photographers, they have a collection of photography that dazzles your favourite clients.

Brian Twede has made a career of creating amazing images with light and shadow, fire and water. For over 25 years, his imagery has helped to build many Fortune 500 companies from mere startups. With clients around the world, his unique creative style produces images that demand attention.

An expert in light and fire painting, he creates fantastic photographs that defy explanation. Brian has created a totally new genre, and his love affair with light also extends to the places and people that he captures, wrapping his subjects with light in exquisite ways that compel the viewer to soak-up every saturated detail.

Photographic images have a language all their own - a visual language that expresses, often more articulately than words, the message that comprises the image and reputation a company wishes to communicate.

Photography can best fulfill the need to demonstrate the realisation of a company’s range of capabilities, and only high quality photography can best serve the need to illustrate its commitment to uncompromising quality and caring. Since 1984, Bruce Glass has been creating images of quality for a wide variety of clients, from architects to mortgage companies, banks to homebuilders and developers, hospitals to manufacturing, shipping, chemical, refining, and high-tech concerns.

Clients include Anheuser Busch, British Hovercraft, Centex Homes, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Gables Residential, House Beautiful, Humana Hospitals, IBM, Intercontinental Hotels, Shell Oil and Time, Inc.

Greg Folkins is an award winning architectural and interior design photographer located in Dallas, Texas. He specialises in photographing built spaces, such as architectural exteriors and interiors, landscape architecture, commercial buildings, residential buildings, corporate facilities, hotels, resorts and casinos, retail and restaurant architecture, and anything else man/woman can design and build.

Greg is an active standing member of the American Society of Media Photographers, fully insured and fully licensed. He considers locations such as Dallas, Houston and Austin 'local projects', however Greg is available and often travels on assignment nationwide.

Greg Folkins Photo is hired to photograph architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and commercial projects for the purposes of documenting, marketing, advertising and ultimately driving potential new customer awareness and business identity.

With over 25 years of experience, Holly Kuper captures, with her commercial photography experience and expert lighting techniques, lively portraiture in the places and spaces where we live, work and play. Photographing for Forbes, Business Week, Time, Newsweek, Pepsi, Dupont, Frito Lay and IBM, Holly’s images are vibrant and artfully composed, beautifully conveying the essence of the individuals and events upon which she turns her expert eye. 

She specialties in commercial photography, environmental portraiture, marketing collateral photography, Web and travel photography, photography design services, book and album design, professional retouching and special theme portraiture.

Jeff Green has been shooting professionally for 16 years. His specialties include architecture, food/beverage, products, portraits and landscapes.

His work is characterised by a strong sense of composition and naturally appearing light, and has been used in ad campaigns, annual reports and published in numerous magazines and books throughout the world.

Jeff is based in Las Vegas and travels frequently throughout the country on assignments.

Clients include Altro Floors, Bacardi, Dolce & Gabbana, Doner, Food Arts Magazine, GE, Gensler Architects, Giorgio Armani, Jeld-Wen Windows and Doors, MGM/Mirage Resorts, Rockwell Group, Samsung, Smithsonian Magazine, Tommy Bahama, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide and Wynn Resorts.

"You know what we do, make us look good" are the directions Houston-based photographer Jim Olive often hears when being sent on international assignments by clients who trust his creative abilities to return with dynamic images. He also has extensive aerial experience and is HUET and SAFE GULF certified to photograph offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jim also continues to photograph the latest medical technology in the Texas Medical Center where he began documenting the development of artificial hearts and heart transplants in the early 70s. 

His clients include Halliburton, Hercules Offshore, Maersk Drilling, Shell, Sunoco, Valero, Western Companies of NA, Calpine, Crescent, Transwestern, Tracker, Texas Medical Center, Texas Heart Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center, among others. 

Additionally, Jim's creative images of Houston and the Texas environment are available on his stock website. 

Ken Ross is an independent commercial photographer based in Los Angeles,California, who specialises in travel, location, people and corporate photography. Educated in the US and Switzerland, Ken began his photography career while residing in Sydney, Australia in 1985. 

Ken has photographed over 90 countries - his eventual goal is to photograph 101. His photographs have also appeared in many books published in the US and Europe, including his own book project, 'Real Taste of Life'. In 2008, his work was exhibited in the US, The Philippines, Japan and Mexico. 

His client list includes Visa, American Express, Apple, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, Cartier, Sony, Condé Nast, Geo Magazine, Newsweek, Stern, Der Spiegel, Frommers and Fodors.

Maxine Helfman developed her distinct style during years of working as a stylist and art director before turning to photography. In her studio/prop shop, every shoot takes a fresh approach, from concept to execution.

She brings a mixture of wit, patience and passion to a range of subjects, with equal focus on technical ability. Whether shooting in or out of the studio, it's the collaboration and the pre-production that make each project.

Some of her clients include Palm Beach Opera, Alon Energy, Domtar Paper, Neiman Marcus and Ad Council, as well as magazine editorial work.

Michael Hart is a commercial photographer based in Houston, Texas.  

For 30 years his images of people and places have brought to creative life the visual concepts of leading advertising agencies and design firms. His photographs have served as the images of choice for some of America's leading corporations, including many Fortune 500 companies, taking him to over 30 countries along the way. And through it all, he's still pretty much the same guy he's always been. Still listening to rock music, playing one of his bass guitars, and sipping fine cask strength single malts from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

So goes his life. So goes his art.

Tulsa-based Scott Miller is a professional photographer and videographer whose client list ranges broad and deep. His scope of successful image capturing includes working for clients from coast to coast.

Producing journalistic work, advertising, catalogues, websites and multi-media presentations, from straightforward trade pubs to cutting edge magazines, Scott has extensive experience producing images in all these styles.

Aesthetically interpreting projects, whether clients are seeking someone who can turn their exact vision into reality, or they want someone who will bring a bit of visual unexpectedness to the project, Scott and his associate John O’Connor never disappoint. Both of these talented individuals possess a unique blend of creativity and people skills, meaning clients not only get the final photos they want but enjoy the process along the way. 

Paul Markow is a premier commercial advertising photographer in the Southwest, but has traveled all over the world shooting for national and international clients. He has photographed travel magazines while spelunking through caves in Mexico, shot from hot air balloons over the vineyards of Napa, and even shot airplane-to-airplane in a WW2 fighter jet.

Paul's specialty is lifestyle and people photography on location. His ability to work under pressure, keep within timelines and produce some of the most complicated projects is why his life-long clients continue to call him to get the job done. Paul truly loves what he does, it is his passion and his life: he loves being behind the camera, creating beautiful images.