I helped Yen Hoang start her first fashion portfolio to send to New York agencies. The photos are unstylized which is not the norm for me, but that’s the point of a portfolio, to showcase the model, not the photographer. The shots are straight forward with minimal editing.  The photo shoot wouldn’t have been possible without the last minute efforts of makeup artist Jennifer Kang and Aya Fukuda.

Once in a while I will photograph women in some sort of clothing, although I admit it doesn’t automatically make it qualify as a fashion shoot. This alleyway is in the back of Hoboken under an overpass ramp leading up to Union City. Apparently having a car parked in a small alleyway, with lighting equipment on the sidewalk and a barely clothed woman does not draw attention to the police when they drive by. Back lighting is obviously bi-xenon headlights with an Alien Bee as the front key light, bare bulb no umbrella. I seem to be putting out a lot of car related series of photos lately.