Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer who focuses his artistic gaze on the faces of proud groups of people who are consistently misrepresented in the modern American narrative. Under the tutelage of Dr. R. Heist, he earned a Degree in Photography and Photochemistry. Distinguishing himself from his photographer peers through the integrity of his process from concept to print, he shoots exclusively in Black and White Film and Polaroid 665 Negatives and prints his own images adhering to the archival darkroom methods of the generations of masters who preceded him. In his home and creative retreat, nestled in a valley in the natural reserves of Oregon, he produces silver gelatin, fiber-based limited edition masterpieces each year. His photographs flash us into moments and scenes most people will never get to experience first-hand during their lifetime. Barnes cherishes the friendships he builds with people who recognize his sincerity and allow him access to their private worlds. After establishing their trust over meaningful dialogue and shared experiences, he frames his subjects as they are and where they dwell.
Adam is best known for his featured work in publications such as GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Elle, Numero, and Vogue Italia. With his strong fashion, advertising, and personal work, he brings a new
exciting experience to each project. Aside from being a total photography bad-ass, he has never had a cavity in his life.
Adam is currently building his personal portfolio.
Last year, he participated in several group shows including Milk Underground at Milk Gallery NYC, and 5 successive group shows at Kana Manglapus Projects in Venice, Ca. He will have his first solo exhibition at Kana Manglapus Projects later this year.
Peter Tunney, the legendary NewYork artist, lives life to fullest. As life itself is the greatest artistic achievement, Peter brings art and life to everything and everyone he encounters. A gum wrapper, one hubcap, photographs of photographs, evidence of his actual footsteps, a leaf from Bhutan, a beautiful
nude, these and everything is captured, collected, catalogued and added to his overflowing pockets, or left for another day, another time, each piece waiting for its own chance to become a part of Peter Tunney’s art.
It is like reading notes to oneself left in the margin of a favorite book. Peter works painstakingly and meticulously to bring to life the art that resides in all things.
Lyndie Benson became passionate about taking photos through her world travels.
Mentored by her close friend and legendary photographer Herb Ritts, Lyndie specializes in naturalistic portraiture. She has a talent and a fascination for capturing the truth in a single moment, a truth unseen by the eye, but captured through her lens. Lyndie studied and worked as an actor for over a decade and feels this is what taught her to find the truth of a moment.
In 2005, Lyndie held her fist major solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Edgemar Center for the Arts. In 2006, Lyndie participated in Gallery C’s first ever photography exhibition in Los Angeles which opened to rave reviews. In 2009, she exhibited at Canvas and Roseark in Los Angeles. Her work and exhibitions have benefitted many philanthropic organizations including UNICEF, the Child Labor Project, Best Buddies Foundation, Save the Elephants and PAWS- LA. Currently, Lyndie is the director of photography for Maria Shriver: A Woman’s Nation Project.
Lyndie’s photographs have won two International Photography Awards and a Women in Photography Award, appeared in publications such as LA Confidential and the Hamptons, graced numerous album covers, and been acquired for many private collections. Her work can also be seen or rented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art Rental Gallery.
Lyndie lives in Malibu, California with her world-renowned musician husband, Kenny G, and their two children.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Kwaku Alston has a passion for social documentary photography and is inspired to capture truth and honor, whether in his portraits, landscapes or still life images. Kwaku’s world travels form his work and remind him that encouragement and sincerity communicate beyond words in any language. His current direction and vision is to document human interaction and our role in the natural world landscape. His images encourage the viewer to consider the less obvious truths hidden from view in our normal day-to-day existence.
After several years in the New York shooting for The New York Times Magazine, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and Miramax, Kwaku moved to Venice, California in 2000. He has taken portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Aniston.
Career highlights include photographing Nelson Mandela, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou.
Kwaku looks forward to publishing his work and to further exhibiting his photographs in galleries and museums around the world.
Lyndie Benson became passionate about taking photos through her world travels.
Mentored by her close friend and legendary photographer Herb Ritts, Lyndie specializes in naturalistic portraiture. She has a talent and a fascination for capturing the truth in a single moment, a truth unseen by the eye, but captured through her lens. Lyndie studied and worked as an actor for over a decade and feels this is what taught her to find the truth of a moment.
In 2005, Lyndie held her fist major solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Edgemar Center for the Arts. In 2006, Lyndie participated in Gallery C’s first ever photography exhibition in Los Angeles which opened to rave reviews. In 2009, she exhibited at Canvas and Roseark in Los Angeles. Her work and exhibitions have benefitted many philanthropic organizations including UNICEF, the Child Labor Project, Best Buddies Foundation, Save the Elephants and PAWS- LA. Currently, Lyndie is the director of photography for Maria Shriver: A Woman’s Nation Project.
Lyndie’s photographs have won two International Photography Awards and a Women in Photography Award, appeared in publications such as LA Confidential and the Hamptons, graced numerous album covers, and been acquired for many private collections. Her work can also be seen or rented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art Rental Gallery.
Lyndie lives in Malibu, California with her world-renowned musician husband, Kenny G, and their two children.
Kwaku Alston has a passion for social documentary photography and is inspired to capture truth and honor, whether in his portraits, landscapes or still life images. Kwaku’s world travels form his work and remind him that encouragement and sincerity communicate beyond words in any language. His current direction and vision is to document human interaction and our role in the natural world landscape. His images encourage the viewer to consider the less obvious truths hidden from view in our normal day-to-day existence.
After several years in the New York shooting for The New York Times Magazine, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and Miramax, Kwaku moved to Venice, California in 2000. He has taken portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Aniston.
Career highlights include photographing Nelson Mandela, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou.
Kwaku looks forward to publishing his work and to further exhibiting his photographs in galleries and museums around the world.
Born in 1974, in Plymouth, Indiana, Andrew currently lives and works in NYC and Brooklyn.
Studying Fine Art and Painting at the Savannah College of Art & Design and early experimentation in fabrication and welding led to the artist’s technical and large-scale aesthetic, blending disparate media and industrial application modes.
Andrew’s first solo exhibit “Ten Tigers” (2004) at Milk Gallery in NYC expressed fortitude and optimism in uncertain times by appropriating the symbol of the indomitable Bengal tiger from Shakespearean theater, 19th century literature and Chinese proverbs. Evidencing his intent to produce visual content at once remedial and emblematic of our socioeconomic landscape, Andrew’s work incorporates synthetic elements of latex, enamel and automotive paint on steel and canvas to exude the optimism of a shiny, new sports car. The “Ten Tigers” opening event was hosted by Jocelyn Wildenstein, a living tiger metaphor, and covered by the New York Times and other publications.
Andrew’s personal abhorrence of violence and the media’s sensationalism of brutality was the foundation of his most recent solo show “Happiness…,” exhibited in Miami Art Basel (2008) and Milk Gallery NYC (2009). In this series, Andrew gives context to our culture of aggression. Paintings of guns and skulls (objects of death) become glossy and highly desirable products. In this way, Andrew not only exposes the fatalistic implications of mass consumerism but also evokes the decadence and desensitization of idolized violence throughout history. Creating “photo-abstract” paintings (relaying digitally manipulated objects onto canvases with oil and enamel) and renderings on tempered glass, he fuses classical and contemporary techniques to illustrate the mutability of beauty and perception. “Jury Skull” (2007), for example, embodies the decay of the individual perspective apropos amorphous plastic membranes in a glass cube. Likewise, “Transmogrification” (2007-08) subverts our concept of aggression via the lucid disintegration of a handgun.
Andrew has exhibited in various group shows in NYC. He is currently working on a series of abstract portraits.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Born in 1974, in Plymouth, Indiana, Andrew currently lives and works in NYC and Brooklyn.
Studying Fine Art and Painting at the Savannah College of Art & Design and early experimentation in fabrication and welding led to the artist’s technical and large-scale aesthetic, blending disparate media and industrial application modes.
Andrew’s first solo exhibit “Ten Tigers” (2004) at Milk Gallery in NYC expressed fortitude and optimism in uncertain times by appropriating the symbol of the indomitable Bengal tiger from Shakespearean theater, 19th century literature and Chinese proverbs. Evidencing his intent to produce visual content at once remedial and emblematic of our socioeconomic landscape, Andrew’s work incorporates synthetic elements of latex, enamel and automotive paint on steel and canvas to exude the optimism of a shiny, new sports car. The “Ten Tigers” opening event was hosted by Jocelyn Wildenstein, a living tiger metaphor, and covered by the New York Times and other publications.
Andrew’s personal abhorrence of violence and the media’s sensationalism of brutality was the foundation of his most recent solo show “Happiness…,” exhibited in Miami Art Basel (2008) and Milk Gallery NYC (2009). In this series, Andrew gives context to our culture of aggression. Paintings of guns and skulls (objects of death) become glossy and highly desirable products. In this way, Andrew not only exposes the fatalistic implications of mass consumerism but also evokes the decadence and desensitization of idolized violence throughout history. Creating “photo-abstract” paintings (relaying digitally manipulated objects onto canvases with oil and enamel) and renderings on tempered glass, he fuses classical and contemporary techniques to illustrate the mutability of beauty and perception. “Jury Skull” (2007), for example, embodies the decay of the individual perspective apropos amorphous plastic membranes in a glass cube. Likewise, “Transmogrification” (2007-08) subverts our concept of aggression via the lucid disintegration of a handgun.
Andrew has exhibited in various group shows in NYC. He is currently working on a series of abstract portraits.
Kwaku Alston has a passion for social documentary photography and is inspired to capture truth and honor, whether in his portraits, landscapes or still life images. Kwaku’s world travels form his work and remind him that encouragement and sincerity communicate beyond words in any language. His current direction and vision is to document human interaction and our role in the natural world landscape. His images encourage the viewer to consider the less obvious truths hidden from view in our normal day-to-day existence.
After several years in the New York shooting for The New York Times Magazine, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and Miramax, Kwaku moved to Venice, California in 2000. He has taken portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Aniston.
Career highlights include photographing Nelson Mandela, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou.
Kwaku looks forward to publishing his work and to further exhibiting his photographs in galleries and museums around the world.
Kwaku Alston has a passion for social documentary photography and is inspired to capture truth and honor, whether in his portraits, landscapes or still life images. Kwaku’s world travels form his work and remind him that encouragement and sincerity communicate beyond words in any language. His current direction and vision is to document human interaction and our role in the natural world landscape. His images encourage the viewer to consider the less obvious truths hidden from view in our normal day-to-day existence.
After several years in the New York shooting for The New York Times Magazine, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and Miramax, Kwaku moved to Venice, California in 2000. He has taken portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Aniston.
Career highlights include photographing Nelson Mandela, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou.
Kwaku looks forward to publishing his work and to further exhibiting his photographs in galleries and museums around the world.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Lyndie Benson became passionate about taking photos through her world travels.
Mentored by her close friend and legendary photographer Herb Ritts, Lyndie specializes in naturalistic portraiture. She has a talent and a fascination for capturing the truth in a single moment, a truth unseen by the eye, but captured through her lens. Lyndie studied and worked as an actor for over a decade and feels this is what taught her to find the truth of a moment.
In 2005, Lyndie held her fist major solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Edgemar Center for the Arts. In 2006, Lyndie participated in Gallery C’s first ever photography exhibition in Los Angeles which opened to rave reviews. In 2009, she exhibited at Canvas and Roseark in Los Angeles. Her work and exhibitions have benefitted many philanthropic organizations including UNICEF, the Child Labor Project, Best Buddies Foundation, Save the Elephants and PAWS- LA. Currently, Lyndie is the director of photography for Maria Shriver: A Woman’s Nation Project.
Lyndie’s photographs have won two International Photography Awards and a Women in Photography Award, appeared in publications such as LA Confidential and the Hamptons, graced numerous album covers, and been acquired for many private collections. Her work can also be seen or rented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art Rental Gallery.
Lyndie lives in Malibu, California with her world-renowned musician husband, Kenny G, and their two children.
Her work is a rarity within the photography world. Image-makers today tend to concentrate their attention on anything but the positive. However, this photographer from the suburban acres of upstate New York focuses her lens on the good things. The sweet things; crushed cherries, burst bubblegum, fields of flowers, and mischievous stares. The places and people that trigger instantaneous responses of untainted ecstasy. For over ten years, Gabrielle’s provocative-yet-chic images have illuminated the pages of the world’s most dynamic glossies and advertising campaigns. In 2006, she held her first solo exhibition entitled, “I Only Have Eyes for You”, at Milk Gallery in NYC. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised from the exhibition were donated to causes whose mission is to transform and inspire the empowerment and self esteem of children in need. In September 2009, Gabrielle’s solo show “I Remain, You Desire” opened at Sotheby’s NYC to much acclaim. Clients include: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Sony BMG Music, Warner Brothers Records, Leo Burnett Adv., Latina, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and Flaunt Magazine, among others.
Kwaku Alston has a passion for social documentary photography and is inspired to capture truth and honor, whether in his portraits, landscapes or still life images. Kwaku’s world travels form his work and remind him that encouragement and sincerity communicate beyond words in any language. His current direction and vision is to document human interaction and our role in the natural world landscape. His images encourage the viewer to consider the less obvious truths hidden from view in our normal day-to-day existence.
After several years in the New York shooting for The New York Times Magazine, Sony Music, Rolling Stone and Miramax, Kwaku moved to Venice, California in 2000. He has taken portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, Robert Downey Jr., and Jennifer Aniston.
Career highlights include photographing Nelson Mandela, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou.
Kwaku looks forward to publishing his work and to further exhibiting his photographs in galleries and museums around the world.
Lyndie Benson became passionate about taking photos through her world travels.
Mentored by her close friend and legendary photographer Herb Ritts, Lyndie specializes in naturalistic portraiture. She has a talent and a fascination for capturing the truth in a single moment, a truth unseen by the eye, but captured through her lens. Lyndie studied and worked as an actor for over a decade and feels this is what taught her to find the truth of a moment.
In 2005, Lyndie held her fist major solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Edgemar Center for the Arts. In 2006, Lyndie participated in Gallery C’s first ever photography exhibition in Los Angeles which opened to rave reviews. In 2009, she exhibited at Canvas and Roseark in Los Angeles. Her work and exhibitions have benefitted many philanthropic organizations including UNICEF, the Child Labor Project, Best Buddies Foundation, Save the Elephants and PAWS- LA. Currently, Lyndie is the director of photography for Maria Shriver: A Woman’s Nation Project.
Lyndie’s photographs have won two International Photography Awards and a Women in Photography Award, appeared in publications such as LA Confidential and the Hamptons, graced numerous album covers, and been acquired for many private collections. Her work can also be seen or rented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art Rental Gallery.
Lyndie lives in Malibu, California with her world-renowned musician husband, Kenny G, and their two children.
