I am honored to have a photo print included in a very special charity.

“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:

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure to do some photos for XCVI, one of my favorite clients. This time was a little different; they had a production company, Anchorbolt Studios, come in and do a little video for the season, and had me shoot the stills for the look book. It was really fun and came out super cute!

Check out my photos after the jump, plus the adorable video! Please click images to enlarge.

An XCVI Alibi from XCVI Fashion on Vimeo.

I’m honored to have the Jell-O Salad project I did a couple months ago included in the 2011 Photo Annual.

Please check out this link for the rest of the images/crew credits from the shoot!

You can also find them on the PDN Winner’s Gallery, here.

What began in 2008 as taking posed portraits of the characters on Hollywood Boulevard, has turned into a character study of Melissa–a.k.a. “Marilyn,” “Black Swan,” and many others. I love taking photos of her. Even if I wasn’t a photographer, I would follow her, just to hear her stories. What attracts me is her unrivaled enthusiasm for her performance. She is always “on,” even when she is not on the Boulevard.

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!

Thank you to all who came last night to This is a photo show!! We had an amazing turnout and really appreciate all the support! If you couldn’t make it, the show will be up for another month, by appointment. Please check out the price list for details about prints, and scroll to the bottom of the page for information on appointments.

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!

I am so excited to be participating in two shows in April as a part of MOPLA (the Month of Photography in LA).

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!

I am so happy to be included in “Life Support Japan”, a gallery show supporting the relief effort in Japan.

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. ”

I had SUCH an amazing time on this shoot (you can check out the behind the scenes photos from a previous blog entry here! ). What was supposed to be a 6-8 page spread turned into a 12 page spread, plus 2 more photos as a section cover and as a magazine ad, in the back of the issue. You can find the magazine at many Barnes & Nobles, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, newsstands where they sell fashion magazines, and most airports, so look out for it! The cover features Audrina Patridge. You can also find the issue online at there website, Runwaylive.com!

Photographer: Myself
Props/Wardrobe: Topsy Design
Makeup: Lexi Swain
Hair: Rachel Brumbaugh
Models: Kasimira and Rina from Photogenics Media

Please click to enlarge!

And here is a shot I love that didn’t make it into the magazine: