Snapper : Vratko Barcík

Jozef Misik by Vratko Barcík

Photographer Vratko Barcík, 25, was born in the small town of Zvolen in central Slovakia. After his studies, he dediced to settle down in Prague, Czeck Republic in 2008. Now specialized in fashion photography and advanced post-production, he has worked on campaigns for some local fashion designers such as Jozef Sloboda or Osmany Laffita. He is also collaborating with a number of fashion and beauty magazines.

Snapper : Brent Dundore

An alumn of Brooks Institute of Photography, Brent Dundore is a high-end fashion photographer from Los Angeles, California. He specializes in portraits of celebs and model portfolios.

Snapper : Sonny Tong

Kyle Ledeboer by Sonny Tong

LA-based freelance photographer Sonny Tong shows creativity and natural ability in his work, able to take your breath away with every picture. Despite his young age, his pictures show a lot of maturity, usually speaking for themselves. Besides, he has a sharp eye for fashion.

Snapper : Lucas Castro Pardo

Gabriel Hulgich by Lucas Castro Pardo

Lucas Castro Pardo is a young Argentinian photographer. Inspired by the hotheadedness of his own youth, he usually shoots bad boys that often appear in the pages of his alternative magazine Peter, Tom & Dave and in A:Mag as well.

Snapper : Marcos Domingo Sánchez

Spanish lensman Marco Domingo Sánchez, 38, discovered his passion for photography very early as his father is a snapper too. After studying architecture, he moved to Barcelona and started his career in Milan a decade ago, where he opened his own studio in 2004, working with major modeling agencies. Although he settled down in Paris in 2006, Marcos Domingo Sánchez keeps shooting in Milan and Barcelona as well.

Snapper : Kenton Thatcher

Kenton Thatcher is an award winning advertising and portrait photographer. Born in London England he fell quickly into photography due to his father's obsession with the camera and the darkroom.  At 17, he started traveling and assisting some of the world's finest photographers. The last assignment before "going it alone" was as first assistant to Clive Arrowsmith on a Pirelli calendar shoot. He is now based in Lisbon, Portugal and has built himself an amazing reputation during the past twelve years. Many of his images have been used in worldwide campaigns.

Snapper : Brenton Parry

Trained as a graphic designer, Brenon Parry has always had a passion for photography, fostered by his father who gave him his first camera whe he was a teenager. He has been developing his own style over the past few years, influenced by the likes of Bruce Weber, Annie Liebovits and fellow Australian James Houston. He recently committed to having the first exhibition of his photographic works entitled "Shrouded" with aspirations for many more to come.

Snapper : Enrique Bueno

Enrique Bueno better known as MiLo800 is a self-taught photographer born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He has discovered the beauty of fleeting moments; that some place, some object or a living person can imprint itself forever in just one picture, just like a painter creates each of these with his brush in order to stop time and keep those moments alive. Based in El paso, Texas, MiLo800 focuses on portraiture and fashion.

Model : Matt Acton

Snapper : Jan Kocovski

Jan Kocovski is a creative beauty, portrait and fashion photographer working close to Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. His work is strongly affected by a personal approach and delivers a highly professional product at the same time. Every shot conveys a style, an emotion, a passion. Special care is given to digital manipulation for an effortless look of luxury and sophistication.

Snapper : Allen Zaki

Allen Zaki, a California native, has traveled the world. It was on vacation in Australia that he bought his first camera and discovered his love of photography. A graduate of Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, he currently resides in Los Angeles but often flies to New York on business to shoot fashion.

Snapper : Enzo Laera Interview

Photographer extraordinaire Enzo Laera accepted to answer the Morphosis interview and joined some outtakes (above) of his Tendencias shoot featuring Harry Goodwins.
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Interview :
Lestat : Who is Vincenzo Laera ?
Enzo : I'm a 40-something photgrapher born in Milan. I spent half of my life between New York and Los Angeles. Just landed in Berlin. I have a degree in social behaviors, mastered in Berlin.
Lestat : How did you start your career ?
Enzo : I started twenty-eight years ago, first in Milan then I moved to NYC, and began collaborating in the industry. First as a hair stylist. The trasnsition from that to photography was kind of natural, it was the only reason why I stayed in this industry, it gave me a great opportunity to see in action, camera in hands, fantastic photographers such as Avedon, Penn, Meisel, Klein, Leibowit , Newton, Watson to name a few. I always had images in my mind and that was the only reason why I enjoyed the fashion shoots, so... when the right time came, it was absolutly more than normal to make "photography" my passion, as a new career. Fashion photography and portraiture are the only assigments that I was ever in, from a very young age. I wish I could shoot and love landscape too, as much I like people, but I really don't know much about it. So I think I will keep shooting gorgous humans for a bit longer .
Lestat : What’s a working day like ?
Enzo : I usually wake up early, it's just my normal routine, I think of the day to come, and always make sure that... model first and every collaborator will have all the details for what we are ready to do. As long as I have my model in front of the camera by 1pm, I'm very happy, I usually require to meet everybody by 10.30am, but if for whatever reason the model can t be in town before noon, then... 1 pm or 2 pm is just all right. The atmosphere is always relax, confortable, sane ! My models (or the talent of the day) are my heros and my priority... don't mess with'em or you are outa the production !
Lestat : Who / what inspires you most ?
Enzo : Sounds, music, light, beauty, shapes, movements, words, photo art & art installations. But I also like vampires, S. Freud, Machintosh, men on weekends, sobriety, Panorama bar, Sasha P., my choise of models, Acqua di Parma, Iris poudre, Pierre Bourdon, and the work of : B. Weber, H. Slimane, P. Picasso, A. dello Russo, J. Vallhonrat, S. Klein, S. Meisel, N. Formichetti, Dior Homme, Life, A Smile.
Lestat : How was the process of your last shoot ?
Enzo : I received a request from this art director, immediatly after made a call in London to one of the sharpest and coolest booking agent ever : Ryan at Models1. I Confirmed an angel : Harry Goodwins. The job was an assigment for Tendencias . The edit is in Morphosis !
Lestat : What would be the perfect next shoot like ?
Enzo : A bigger budget .
Lestat : What are your projects ?
Enzo : On the way to confirm the new cover boy plus a 12-page editorial for the May issue . Always a surprise !
Lestat : Speaking of the Tendencias shoot again, how was it like ?
Enzo : It was a fantastic day, Harry Goodwins landed in Berlin at 10.30am, arrived at the appointment location by 11.15, like "mostly of the models" he was not starving, so we decided, instead of a lunch, to start the shoot, we hit the location by 1.30pm, and by 5pm we had all the pictures. At 6pm, we all had a great dinner at Trattoria Popolare, which is one of the most authentic Italian restaurant in Berlin .
Lestat : Sounds awesome ! Now other than that, is love important to you ?
Enzo : I have to be in "love" with what is in front of my camera, or the entire process is painfull and never fullfilling .
Lestat : I have a more stupid question ! What do you wear to bed ?
Enzo : Just my underwear. Sometimes a man, in the past, my dog.
Lestat : Do you spend much time on the Internet ?
Enzo : I wish I could say... no I don't.
Lestat : Answer the question you’d like to be asked.
Enzo : Yes I do accept your offer to shoot your new campaign, and sure, I'll move to London if you want me to.
Lestat : ...and we won't know who this is aimed at !

Snapper : Ed Olen

Kevin Crows by Ed Olen

Born and raised in suburban Southern California, Ed Olen had always dreamed of a life more metropolitan. Amongst the monotonous rows of cookie cutter homes sprouting up around him in Orange County, he yearned for visual stimulation. He found it first photographing the forgotten buildings around skid row in downtown Los Angeles in the late 90s. From there, his travels have taken him to New York, Paris, London, Istanbul, Rome, Florence, Venice and to the vivid colors of Miami. It is in these vibrant cities that he's captured the beautiful detail of the statues, fountains and buildings that he so longed for growing up. In 2000, he began showing his work in restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops in Laguna Beach, Long Beach and Solana Beach. 2003 was his first Summer exhibiting at the Sawdust Art Festival & Festival of the Arts. In the summer of 2002, he opened his own fine art photography gallery in Laguna Beach. After three years, he closed it to focus on portraiture and fashion photography. Ed Olen currently works with Coast and Preferred Destinations magazines as their lead photographer.

Snapper : Jesper Brandt

Swedish photographer Jesper Brandt, 42, finds inspiration through films and documentaries; something he has blended into his own photography, whether it is about fashion or lifestyle. This personal touch he developed makes the viewers connected with the image and gives them the feeling of actually being there. Jesper Brandt regularly works for H&M or Volvo -he resides in Stockholm-, Elle, Café Magazine, Marie-Claire, Gant and Saks....

Snapper : Dirk Merten

Dirk Merten is a German fashion photographer based in Berlin. He regularly shoots for fash mags like Bon, Feld Hommes, Indie, Tush, Tendencias, Geil, Metal, Vision... thereby appears often on Morphosis.

Snapper : Karl Lagerfeld feat. Baptiste Giabiconi (part 17) for Interview Magazine

Snapper : Jérôme Lobato

Model : Yom Massaloux

Jérôme Lobato, 37, is a French photographer based in Paris. He recently exhibited a series of pictures at Paris Town Hall. He shot the cover of the current issue (#9) of Kaiserin Magazine (see above).

Snapper : Peter Gehrke

Peter Gehrke is a Swedish fashion photographer based in Stockholm. His images often portay nonchalance and reverberate with intensity, which results in sensual photography with a big deal of presence. He recently shot the newest Bershka campaign featuring Arthur Sales.

Snapper : Juergen Teller

Marc Jacobs by Juergen Teller
for Bang by Mark Jacobs

Juergen Teller is a German fashion photographer and a heir to William Eggleston's photography style. His work has been featured in The Face, Vogue, Another, Index, W Magazine, Self Service, Details, Purple, i-D among others. For the last decade, he's collaborated with Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Céline and Björk. Teller's work has been exhibited worldwide in solo exhibitions in major galleries around the world. Married to contemporary art dealer Sadie Coles, he resides in London.

Snapper : Vicky Trombetta

Abiah Hostvedt by Vicky Trombetta for LURVE

Breathing fashion and art all his life thanks to an actively fashionable mother and a genuinely Italian upbringing, Milan-born photographer Vicky Trombetta, 38, is a lover of beauty -an esthete in the truest sense. Harmony, proportion and serenity define his photographic work, characterized by a subtly intense use of light. He reaches an almost Parnassian chord that's his veritable trademark, even when working with streetcasting.

Snapper : Frederico Martins

Daniel Cardoso by Frederico Martins

Portuguese photographer Frederico Martins, 33, started his career about a decade ago in photojournalism although he completed a degree in agricultural engineering in 2002. Now focusing on fashion, portraiture and advertising, his work has appeared in a number of magazines.