Please click here for more info!

Also, if you are in LA on November 14th, I will be speaking at the Apple Store as a part of the Young Guns series.

Below are a couple photos of me with my work I had on display. You can check out more photos from the event on the ADC Flickr Page by clicking here!

I will also be speaking at the Apple Store in Santa Monica on November 14th, as a part of the ADC Young Guns series. More info can be found by clicking here.

Please see below for more info!

Click here to see the profiles of all the winners. I am humbled to be in the company of such amazing artists.

Please click the image below for info about the show!


And see below for the press release:

For Immediate Release

Art Directors Club Announces Global Winners of ADC Young Guns 9 Competition For Creatives Age 30 and Under
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50 winners from 14 countries named in industry’s only international portfolio-based awards program for young creatives; newly redesigned award, winners exhibition/party October 13.

NEW YORK, September 7, 2011 – The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), the leading organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, has announced the 50 young creatives from 14 countries to claim the prestigious ADC Young Guns 9 title.

ADC Young Guns® is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Judged on a body of both professional and personal work by a jury of past YG winners, this year’s class represents an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, photography, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, sound design, product design and typography. Entries for the YG9 competition were received from 43 countries.

The complete ADC Young Guns 9 class is as follows:

Asia Pacific:

Curtis Baigent, Auckland, New Zealand
Clem Devine, Alt Group, Auckland, New Zealand
Urs Furrer, Alt.vfx, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Felix Ng, SILNT, Singapore, Singapore
Europe/UK:

Kyle Bean, Brighton, England, UK
CAPTIVE, Lisbon, Portugal
Leslie David, Paris, France
Sean Freeman, London, England, UK
William Gerritsen, Passion Raw, London, England, UK
Owen Gildersleeve, London, England, UK
Inka Järvinen, TSTO, Helsinki, Finland
Pete Rossi, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Vesa Sammalisto, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Walter, Zurich, Switzerland
James Wignall, mutanthands, London, England, UK
Olimpia Zagnoli, Milan, Italy
Latin America:

Denis Artico Peralta, Almap BBDO, Sao Paulo, Brazil
North America:

Roanne Adams, RoAndCo, New York, NY
Craig Allen, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, OR
Jordan Awan, Brooklyn, NY
Jonathan Bartlett, Brooklyn, NY
Daniel Blackman, 160over90, Philadelphia, PA
Wilson Brown, Antfood, Brooklyn, NY
Daniel Cassaro, Young Jerks, Brooklyn, NY
Jon Contino, Brooklyn, NY
Vinicius Costa, 1st Ave Machine, New York, NY
Brent Couchman, San Francisco, CA
Sara Cwynar, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY
Aaron Duffy, 1st Ave Machine/Special Guest, New York, NY
Kimberly Dulaney, Brooklyn, NY
Croix Gagnon, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, OR
Julie Glassberg, Julie Glassberg Photographer, Brooklyn, NY
GrandArmy, Brooklyn, NY
Huma-Huma, Brooklyn, NY
Jesse Juriga, BBH, New York, NY
Dan Kenneally, Anomaly, New York, NY
Tamar Levine, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Mapar, Brooklyn, NY
Mike McQuade, Chicago, IL
Homer Mendoza, Standard Life, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
John Passafiume, Louise Fili, Ltd., New York, NY
Jesse Rieser, Los Angeles, CA
Camm Rowland, Digital Kitchen, Chicago, IL
Jon Saunders, Brooklyn, NY
Genevieve Simms, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dana Tanamachi, Louise Fili, Ltd., New York, NY
Richard The, Brooklyn, NY
Erin Trieb, Bellaire, TX
Tomi Um, Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Weinberg, Brooklyn, NY
Profiles of all YG9 winners can be found at http://www.adcyoungguns.org/winners9/.

ADC Young Guns 9 winners receive a unique version of the ADC Young Guns Cube, designed in a limited edition exclusively for this year’s incoming class. They will have their work featured in an exhibition at the ADC Gallery in New York, published in the ADC Young Guns 9 Annual, and added to the ADC permanent online collection. Along with receiving a complimentary one-year ADC membership, they also get permanent membership in ADC Young Guns Network, the chance to be featured in YG events and on www.adcyoungguns.org, and an assortment of career-boosting opportunities from ADC Young Guns sponsors including Corbis, Behance and Ace Hotel.

ADC Young Guns 9 winners exhibition and awards party October 13, 2010:
The exhibition opening and winners party, sponsored by Corbis, Brooklyn Brewery, Moleskine and Resource Magazine, will be held at the ADC Gallery, 106 W. 29th St, NYC, on October 13, 2011, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Admission to the event is free to ADC members, $25 for non-members, with open bar, food and music by DJ Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave Records. To RSVP and buy tickets, please visit http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/#273.

The exhibition of work by the ADC Young Gun 9 class, consisting of both professional and personal projects, will run at the ADC Gallery from October 13-November 3, 2011 (Monday-Friday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, free admission).

ADC gives special thanks to Nessim Higson (IAAH) for design of the ADC Young Guns 9 Cube award and ADC Young Guns 9 Annual.

Past ADC Young Guns include then-rising stars who went on to become leaders in their chosen fields, such as ADC board member Rei Inamoto (interactive), Stefan Sagmeister and James Victore (graphic design), Deanne Cheuk (illustration), Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner (aka floto+warner, photography), Alexander Gelman (advertising), Mike Mills (film and video), Alex Trochut (typography), Todd St. John (animation) and others. To encourage a strong sense of community, a panel of past ADC Young Guns serves as the jury for each year’s competition.

For details about this and other ADC Young Guns events and news, please visit www.adcyoungguns.org, or contact Erin Biggerstaff, ADC Young Guns Manager, erin@adcglobal.org, 212-643-1440 x25.

The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org) is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funded, not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to connect creative communications professionals around the globe, and to provoke and elevate world-changing ideas. It focuses on the highest standards of excellence in communications for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

“Communities In Schools is a non-profit, high school dropout prevention organization, whose mission is to surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. CIS works within the public school system to determine student needs and establishes relationships with local business, social service agencies, health care providers, and parent and volunteer organizations to provide needed resources. With the support of CIS, 94% of students served STAY IN SCHOOL.CIS will be holding its inaugural fundraising event to celebrate education and the arts. The event will feature a student art exhibition entitled “SCHOOL LIFE,” which will consist of works by eleven students from a pilot photography program initiated this year by CIS. The program was led by renowned photographer Mark Leibowitz over a span of sixteen weeks. The students have spent this time learning the disciplines of photography from conceptualizing, producing, and editing. The students will also be holding a live photo shoot throughout the evening.”

Please check out info below and click on the image to purchase tickets. I hope to see you there!

You can bid on the print here:

I showed these photos last weekend at the En Masse/MOPLA gallery show. It was tons of fun and great to see the photos so large!

Please click here, or the photo below, to check out the work I showed at the exhibit last weekend. It was so difficult for me to edit this project!

This is just a fraction of the thousands of photos I’ve taken of Melissa over the past three years, and I look forward to take many more to come.

I have started a project on IndiGogo.

A few years ago, my grandmother, Dorothea Austin Banner, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She is my last living grandparent, and a Holocaust survivor. I didn’t think at the time what this would mean to my family, our history, and our future. Last year I visited her in NY. I had my camera and took some snapshots of the house, not really thinking about an outcome. Looking at these photos a year later has made me realize I will very much regret it if I don’t go back to New York and take some photos of her, and document as much of her and her home as I can.

The money I raise on indigogo.com will be used for my plane tickets to New York, for equipment rental once I get there, food and lodging while I am in New York, marketing costs, and printing and framing costs as I hope to show these in a gallery once I am finished with the series. If I don’t reach my entire goal, I can at least get to New York and take some photos!
I hope to include some great perks to make it worth your while and your money! I understand if you do not or cannot help monetarily, and I would be thrilled if you could just share this project with others.

Please click the photo link above to check out more details about the project. Thanks!

Also check out the photo booth photos here!

Thanks again!!

The Couple by Tamar Levine selected for Group Show @ SMASHBOX during MOPLA

I have the above image in the group shot @ SMASHBOX Studios opening April 28th as part of MOPLA Month of Photography Los Angeles.
See the show info below. I hope to see you there!
MOPLA + SMASHBOX GROUP SHOW

The following Artists have been invited to participate in the exhibition, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Evan Abramson, Marjorie Salvaterra, Jenna Westra, Steven Rood, Jeff Mclane, Matt Devino, Natalie Franco, Jason Vaughn, Richard Card, Nikolaus Jung, Tom M. Johnson, Jana Cruder, Stephen Weissberger, Brian Hodges, Mallory Morrison, Tyler Kandel, Diana King, Monica Orozco, Ricky Middlesworth, Bonne Shiffman, Svjetlana Tepavcevic, Ruthie Brownfield, Tiffany Roohani, Elizabeth West, Stephanie Vovas, Nina Sers, Meral Guler, Sharon Tennant, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Zoran Milosavljevic, Katie Shapiro, Stephanie Vovas, Richard Silver, Star Foreman, Rebecca Cabage, Tamar Levine, James Ridley, Morgan Hagar and Wei Shi.

Thank you to all those who submitted work. And, please come out to support this exhibition!

A Special thanks to dee de lara and hossein farmani for curating this show!

The first show will be April 21st. It is a group show for the photo collective I founded, This is a photo blog. You can check out the Facebook event page by clicking here, and the press release with more info by clicking here!

The second show I will have work in is a group show from another collective I am a member of, called En Masse. Each member selected a different area of Los Angeles to photograph (mine is Hollywood). Each set of photos will be projected and displayed, along with a specially curated musical selection by a KCRW DJ. It should be awesome! This show will be the closing night event of MOPLA, on April 30th.

Please see flyers below for more info on each show. I hope to see you there!

Please help support relief efforts in Japan by purchasing a limited edition print of mine, or one of the other photographers included in the show. Each print is only $50.00 in a very limited edition of only 10 prints. You will receive an 8×10 color print. ALL proceeds go to the 2 organizations listed below.

For more details please read statement below from gallery owner Crista Dix, and click here to visit the Wall Space Gallery website. You will find my photo in the “Life Support Japan 4″ gallery. Thank you!

“Natural disasters happen all the time, like landslides, floods, earthquakes. We live on a planet that isn’t static. Friday, March 11th, we witnessed a natural disaster with a very human toll. The earthquake in Japan was of such magnitude that even the most prepared nation in the world to handle a disaster of this type was overwhelmed. It wasn’t the earthquake alone, which was devastating enough but watching a 30 foot high wall of mud and debris wipe entire communities away was beyond any ability I personally had to comprehend.

Crista Dix + wall space gallery. ”