Jef Harris's Photos

In 2003 I created a small ad campaign for Desi Wear Clothing. So small in fact that the advert was pushing one single shirt. This was Desi Wear's hottest T-shirt, (at that time). So getting this just right was important. My idea was to go the spontaneous route. So I show up at Michea's apt with my camera and the T-shirt only. Going this way I think I got the best out of Michea and I. With no prep I was able to capture a certain raw quality street fashion has. Can you guess which picture from this series was chosen as the advert they ran with? T-shirt by Desi Wear. Photo by Jef Harris.

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Anything and everything I could get my hands on. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated with those ultra close porno bug and plants kind of macros. I'm just not seeing anything with heart, with a sense of personal style. These objects here range from my child hood all the way up to only just years ago. Things that have shoot on my shelves, been stored in my closets, taken out and rediscovered. Shot over the period of one month.

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Everyone know I try to relay the stories, ideas, and technical details that go into my shoots. This shoot has one tiny little theme. So obvious. So Cute. The model, Michea Crawford. The theme? Give her an outfit made of Paper Mache. So off to my studio we went. Bucket of water flower and newspapaer in hand. Very hard to take fashion seriously when doing such shoots. So fun it was. Art these became. Photo by Jef Harris.

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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The Fearless shoot was my chance to really plan a shoot unique to my creative relationship with Alexandra Rodionova. The goal was to compare fashion of today with fashion and photography of around the time I was born, (1967). I used two full issues of Andy Warhol's original Interview Magazine for the background. It was a tough choice cutting up those magazines. These are really rare and really expensive. But if I wasn't going to put everything I had into this it just wouldn't be worth doing. This was one of those shoots were everything came together. The hair, (Mark), the makeup, (Caroline), the outfit, the background, the lighting, everything.

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Here I am with Raquel sitting in a completely black room. Leaving the shutter open on my camera for 30sec while I 'paint' her with a laser pointer. Great fun, always love doing these. Hard part was convincing Raquel to say totally still for 30sec! Heh Photo by Jef Harris. Model: Raquel Nevado

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The Fearless shoot was my chance to really plan a shoot unique to my creative relationship with Alexandra Rodionova. The goal was to compare fashion of today with fashion and photography of around the time I was born, (1967). I used two full issues of Andy Warhol's original Interview Magazine for the background. It was a tough choice cutting up those magazines. These are really rare and really expensive. But if I wasn't going to put everything I had into this it just wouldn't be worth doing. This was one of those shoots were everything came together. The hair, (Mark), the makeup, (Caroline), the outfit, the background, the lighting, everything.

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Anything and everything I could get my hands on. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated with those ultra close porno bug and plants kind of macros. I'm just not seeing anything with heart, with a sense of personal style. These objects here range from my child hood all the way up to only just years ago. Things that have shoot on my shelves, been stored in my closets, taken out and rediscovered. Shot over the period of one month.

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The concept for this shoot was this: Over three days shoot three very different models in three different locations. Each model was put in a place defined by my impression of their personality. Each model was given a prop for them to use or to be shot against, and yes the prop is also chosen based on the model’s personality. So over three days, Fri, Sat, Sun, each model is shot during sunset. While on set I was struck with very specific names for each shoot. Deep, Down, and High. (The series later became known as DDH). The “Deep” shoot is the third shoot. This was shot in a hotel swimming pool, so there where hotel guest all over the place, which was fun to shoot around. This was the first time for me shooting a model, (Michea), actually IN water. So I really wanted to play with light, how it was used, how it reflected of the water, etc. For this specific picture, well, when Michea was there ‘lounging’ on the ledge of the deep end I just HAD to grab this shot. Model: Michea Crawford Photo by Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net By a print of this HERE.

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This shoot is another fine addition to my never ending testament of my love and passion. For photography, style, and amazing women. Photos by: Jef Harris www.jefharris.net

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My last and most interesting shoot with Lissa G. We went a little crazy on this one. We where completely out of ideas, so we just sort of had fun. So imagine Lissa and I sitting in my studio, both cross legged in the middle of the room. Me with all sorts of odd painting materials and trinkets around me. Lissa became my living doll, allowing me to do what ever I pleased with her. (insert evil laughter here). So I limited myself red and white paint and a few unused copper jewelry pieces. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Lissa was only dress in her underwear, but those pictures will have to wait...

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With Meg and Andrew.

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A few months ago my neighbor gave me this really interesting looking light. I'm not sure where it's from but the light that shines on it sure does love to play with it's colors.

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The concept for this shoot was this: Over three days shoot three very different models in three different locations. Each model was put in a place defined by my impression of their personality. Each model was given a prop for them to use or to be shot against, and yes the prop is also chosen based on the model’s personality. So over three days, Fri, Sat, Sun, each model is shot during sunset. While on set I was struck with very specific names for each shoot. Deep, Down, and High. (The series later became known as DDH). The “Down” shoot is the second shoot. And just like the first shoot, it was raining heavy all day. And again like the first day we decided to push on. And amazingly, just like the first day, the moment we showed on at the location the rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds. Then, when we finished and started packing up, the sun when back behind the clouds and the rain started as if on cue. Photo by Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net Model: LexXxy By a print of this HERE. http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=f846b9d6-d890-4c61-af71-f30cfb9f8ffa

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A smashed video camera lens with green and yellow food dye dripped onto it. Video of the dripping effect in action is "here".

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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