“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to…love what you do. – Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life”. – Steve Jobs

Here are some photos from my shoot with one of my very best friends and a wonderful designer, carrie parry. More to come in the next few weeks, but here are the shots that have been released so far. If you haven’t already, check out her website!

Many thanks to:
Carrie Parry, Designer
Travis Commeau, Retoucher
Olga, Model
Maxime, Model
Nataly Lastorta, Stylist
Lexi Swain, MUA
Sam Zachrich, Assistant

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I am so excited to be able to share that I am a winner of the ADC Young Guns competition. There will be a gallery show in New York with an opening on October 13th. I will be there so if you come please say “hi”! It should be really fun.

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.

**Photographed for Thisisaphotoblog.com**

When I was little my uncle’s girlfriend owned a farm in Upstate New York. My favorite animals were pigs, and every time we drove up to the farm I would pet and play with this one particular pig. Well one day I searched and searched and this particular pig was nowhere to be found. Later on, we were sitting at the dinner table, and I asked my uncle’s girlfriend where my favorite pig went. She looked down at my plate and said, “You’re eating him”.

Special thanks to Topsy Design for collaborating with me on this photo shoot! And thank you to Sam for assisting, Erica for doing the makeup and being a fabulous model, Adam for being another fabulous model, and Morgan for being a fabulous little model.

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And here is an outtake from the shoot (please click to see)!

Here is my assignment (a couple weeks late), for the this is a photo blog assignment, “nude”. I shot it while taking photos of Carrie Parry’s Spring 2012 line, which I am excited to share in September!

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Here are some photos from a shoot with XCVI/Nola Z!

For this latest XCVI shoot we shot on the beach in Malibu, which was so fun! It was perfect weather and the water was amazing. I shot video as well as photos, and made a video look book with my footage.
Please check out the video below! Please click to enlarge/to check it out on Vimeo. Also below the video are some photos from the completed look book. To check out all the photos, please go to xcvi.com!

XCVI Spring 2012 Video Lookbook from Tamar Levine on Vimeo.

I thought the cinematic nature of this shoot I did last week was a great time to experiment with cinemagraphs (photographs with subtle movement in them). It might take a couple seconds looking at each cinemagraph to see the movement. Please see below to view the final product, and below them for the photos from the shoot!

Many thanks to:
Models: Steven Bruns and Olga Chaplinskaya
Stylists: Consuela and Melody
Makeup: Erica Glaub
Hair: Rachel Brumbaugh
Assistant: Maia Harms
Post-production: Rob Sheridan

Here are the regular photos from the shoot (please click to enlarge):

I always have such a great time shooting with UCLA Magazine, mostly because of how much fun the staff is to work with. This particular job was right up my alley..It was a feature on the fashion at UCLA. The architecture there is amazing and we found a wonderful room to shoot in. One by one, every 15 minutes, students came in to be photographed. It was a long but productive day! Please click the images to enlarge.