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Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010 – Spring/Summer 2011

felixkunze — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:40:45 +0000

It’s only fashion but I like it.

I flew to Denmark for the second time in 2 months to cover Copenhagen Fashion Week for Getty Images and Wireimage. There’s something incredibly clean and crisp about Nordic design – I’m drawn to it. The Danes and their scandinavian companions tend to pull off some interesting shows, there’s a snapshot of that in the video below. There’s a lot more if you head over to wireimage.com and search for ‘Felix Kunze Copenhagen’.

Fashion week is 12 hour days of shooting one show after the other, lots of editing and uploads to the agency during the night, very little sleep, many turned down invitations to parties and a lot of mad fun on the press bus that takes us from show to show.

Apart from the interesting talent on show, notable at Fashion week were: the grace of Crown Princes Mary of Denmark, the appearance of fashion regulars such as James Goldstein (seen in the video wearing a cowboy-like hat), The Worlds Greatest Catwalk – a Guinness world records attempt for the longest catwalk, hosted by danish supermodel Helena Christensen with entertainment by Mads Langer and the general atmosphere in the crowd and around Copenhagen. I think the below gives a good glimpse of the atmosphere at the show.

If you like this, also check out Haiti, Roskilde and recent Portraiture or head over to the homepage. You can also follow me on twitter or check out my page on facebook.

By the way, Thorsten Overgaard’s lucid article on Copenhagen fashion week is worth a read. Click here

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Portraiture – May and June 2010

felixkunze — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:10:44 +0000

My recent efforts have been in the area of doing documentary style photography like my projects in Haiti and coverage of the Roskilde Music Festival while also developing what I am doing in the field of portraiture. This is a little showcase of some of the work over the last few months. This doesn’t include work shot for magazine editorials of which there are a couple that I can’t wait to show! But they have to wait until they have gone into print.

I’ve been working to shoot portraiture that was strong and meaningful and also working in environmental portraiture, IE people in a work or life situation. Essentially a picture that tells a story about a person.

In a way, each of the images below does communicate a part of each person’s persona. A model still communicates a certain aspect of their own personality, no matter how much make-up is thrown on them, they are always putting across an aspect of their personality. There is a certain truth to it.

To hire me to shoot a similar project for you or to give feedback, please email me or leave a comment at the bottom of this page.

Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott

Models: Mia Gerhardt and Raph Schweiter - Hair, Make-up and Styling: Sally Gatza & Natalie Johnson - Location: Florida

Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Styling: Sally Gatza

Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Hair & Styling: Sally Gatza

Personal commission, Houston, Texas

Kevin Patrick, Clearwater Beach - shot for publicity purposes

Hair & Make-up: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) - Styling & Concept: Gina Manecchia & Taylor Kugler

Personal commission, Tampa Bay

Personal commission, Florida - publicity shoot

Personal commission, Florida - Make-up: Natalie Johnson

Kristel Koehler, poet - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton, www.femmeakoi.com - publicity shoot

Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach

For other projects, check out my work in Roskilde or Haiti or the Portrait portfolio. And if you like this and would like to be kept up to date on what I’m doing, please head over to my facebook page.

Roskilde Music Festival 2010

felixkunze — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:57 +0000

I went to Denmark to cover the amazing 40th Roskilde Music Festival. Roskilde is a small town 1/2 hour outside of Copenhagen. The festival is held on a farm that is repurposed for the festival.

As one of Europe’s top three festivals, attended by over 110,000 people, Roskilde has a reputation for a laid back attitude of fun and as Thorsten Overgaard said ‘lots of dust, beautiful girls and neanderthal men’.

My highlights were Muse, Florence + the Machine and Biffy Clyro. Prince also put on a spectacular show. I jostled for space in the press pit with many other photographers to photograph these bands:

Muse – British prog rock awesomeness
Biffy Clyro – Scottish rockers
Florence + The Machine – British folk done right
Alice in Chains – influential 90’s rock (US)
Bad Lieutenant – formerly New Order (UK)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni BA – world music (Mali)
CV Jørgensen – singer-songwriter (Denmark)
Den Sorte Skole (The Black School) – Copenhagen’s 3 piece DJ set – amazing (Denmark)
Efterklang – up and coming atmospheric pop-rock (Denmark) – watch for these guys
Gorillaz – Damon Albarn’s trip hop project (UK)
Jack Johnson – chilled Hawaiian folk (US)
Julian Marley – Bob Marley’s son – rasta reggae (UK)
Kasabian – indie rock (UK)
Pavement – indie Rock (US)
Patti Smith – singer-songwriter – legendary ‘godmother of punk’ – (US)
Pendulum – electronic rock (Australia)
The Prodigy – electronic dance (UK)
The Temper Trap – alternative rock (Australia)
Vampire Weekend – fun indie rock (US)

To see all the images of the above bands, look on Getty Images here.

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Amy P Personal Portrait Session

felixkunze — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:16 +0000

This one was a lot of fun. We rode on Amy’s wave-runner to get to a small Island in the intercoastal waterway off Clearwater Beach. and shot there using the awesome gnarled old tree.

Gramajo Family Session

felixkunze — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:37:20 +0000

This was such a lovely family to shoot. The wonderful dynamic of the family really shows in these – I can’t help but smile when I look at these photos. These were shot on Clearwater Beach, Florda with available light and a reflector.

‘Unite Brighton’ Exhibition for Haiti Orphans

felixkunze — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:27:35 +0000

Felix MCing exhibition to benefit Future of Haiti Orphanage

Come to Brighton’s seafront Umi Hotel at 3pm on the 26th of June for the grand finale of the exhibition of work inspired by and produced during the relief efforts in Haiti.

Felix will be hosting this event and amongst others will share some of my experiences working with the children orphaned by the earthquake in Haiti. Felix photographed all the individual orphans and provided all imagery to help the orphanage gain sponsors – the orphanage is a project close to his heart.

Several of Felix’s pieces from Haiti are on display. There’ll be live music, wine, snacks and great conversation to look forward to. Felix will be in the UK for just over 48 hours to host this event before going onto his next project.

Alternatively, request a tear sheet of the pieces on show by emailing Felix and putting ‘Tear Sheet’ in the subject line.

Event:

‘Unite Brighton’ exhibition in aid of the Future of Haiti Orphanage

Location:

Umi Hotel Brighton, 64 King’s Road, Brighton, BN1 1NA

Time:

3pm, 26th of June 2010

50% of the art proceeds will go directly to the orphanage project.

Come to Brighton’s seafront Umi Hotel at 3pm on the 26th of June for the grand finale of the exhibition of work inspired by and produced during the relief efforts in Haiti. If you are not in the UK, view the tearsheet instead.

Felix will be MCing this event and amongst others will share some of my experiences working with the children orphaned by the earthquake in Haiti. Felix photographed all the individual orphans and provided all imagery to help The Future of Haiti orphanage gain sponsors – the orphanage is a project close to his heart. See Felix’s slideshow from his work with the orphanage by clicking here.

Several of Felix’s pieces from Haiti are on display among work by other UK artists. There’ll be live music, wine, snacks and great conversation to look forward to. Felix will be in the UK for just over 48 hours to host this event before going onto his next project.

Event:
‘Unite Brighton’ exhibition in aid of the Future of Haiti Orphanage

Location:
Umi Hotel Brighton, 64 King’s Road, Brighton, BN1 1NA

Time:
3pm, 26th of June 2010

Exhibiting Artists:
Felix Kunze
Sophie Sheinwald
Mandeep Birdy
Flora Pettitt
Guiseppi Santmaria
Angela Huang
Steve Yeates

50% of the sales of all art will go directly to the orphanage.

A giant ‘Unite Brighton’ piggybank will be on show at reception so all visitors can donate as they want, along with ‘I Helped Haiti’ T-shirts which will be for sale, all profits going to the orphanage.

Event organized and directed by Mandeep Birdy in association with Umi Hotel Brighton, ‘Unite Brighton’ and the Mayor of Brighton & Hove as well as other sponsors. Exhibition open until 30 June 2010. Pieces will be available via www.felixkunze.com – Felix is available for media interviews.

One World One Photo – the power of Twitter

felixkunze — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:00:28 +0000

Oh, the marvels of Twitter. I’ve professed my love for the micro-blogging service on several occasions and have turned many people into addicts. Twitter connects me with people that I would otherwise not connect with, in a way that is somewhat impersonal yet personable at the same time. A few weeks ago I was tweeted by a student of Fine Art at Birmingham School of Art who pitched his ‘One World One Photo‘ Project.

Connar O’Keeffe somehow managed to cut through the clutter of tweets and I sent him one of my images from the ‘Mumbai – City of Colours’ series I shot over a year ago. It’s an image from the Bycula East Slum of Mumbai and it’s one of my most licensed images. He turned it and other art into a neat project and I think it looks great in printed form. Connar’s idea brought a bunch of photographers and artists together, that can only be a good thing. This is his description of the concept:

“The project ‘One World One Photo’ is intended to be ‘The Worlds Biggest Art Collaboration’ allowing anyone from any discipline to join in, formally trained in the arts or not. Participants are invited to submit a favourite piece of art work made by them whether it is a photograph, painting, sculpture or film still.

So far the 48 images in the collection range from Photographs and paintings to sculptures and sketches. The project has gathered images from all around the British Isles and has spread as far as Sydney, Mumbai and Las Vegas.

The book is a collation of 48 images – ’One World One Photo’. It contains images from professional photographers, fine artists, students and many more. One World One Photo is not just a one off, it is intended to grow and develop, with the hope of reaching every continent and every country in the world.”

Megan shoot

felixkunze — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:37:04 +0000

Megan’s shoot in Florida last year. I loved this location.

For more of this type of work, head over to the portrait section.

The Future of Haiti – Help Haitian Orphans

felixkunze — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:29:57 +0000

My recent trip to Haiti was all about documenting the amazing work at the Future of Haiti Orphanage. Future of Haiti was set up shortly after the earthquake when it became apparent that there were 100s of kids roaming the streets with no one feeding them, no medical attention and no shelter.

Their work really moved me and to communicate what they have achieved and what is needed to further support this project, I put together another one of my slide-shows. This one is about 15 minutes and gives a lot of information about the lives of Haitian orphans. I appreciate the time you take to have a look through this. Feel free to link here, link to the video or embed it in your own site. I am keen to spread awareness of this amazing project.

The Future of Haiti – Help Haitian Orphans from felix kunze on Vimeo.

To sponsor a child or donate to the orphanage, please visit www.thefutureofhaiti.org – any amount helps

To see the first slideshow, go here

More Haiti images are on my Haiti preview post

To keep up to date on my work in Haiti and other socially responsible projects, join me on facebook, follow me on twitter, subscribe to the blog or get in touch by commenting below. Oh and don’t forget to go check out the rest of my work.

Recent Haiti & other media coverage

felixkunze — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:40:03 +0000

I’ve been on a media bonanza recently. I want to help spread awareness of the situation in Haiti. I feel it’s important to educate yourself on the situation in Haiti.

I’ve just gotten an interview published on the fascinating Miss Eco Glam blog. It’s a good read for anyone interested in healthy living. Check it out here.

I also did an interview on Photowalkthrough.com, a popular photography podcast: Listen to it here. It’s more Haiti than photography.

There’s also an interview coming up on www.photonetcast.com – again about Haiti.

Separately we’ve been working on our inspire meetups and Lara also mentioned it on her blog here.

On the lighter side of things, I phoned into the fun Kpod again, had an informal chat with the ladies that descended into a ridiculously fun gigglefest. Listen here.

I really should have a separate blog area for all the media coverage!