New Interview with me on Propsblog - Jeff Cohn Interview - Fashion Photography

I was recently interviewed by Houston Fashion Model /blogger Leah Waddill. She's an awesome model and a former Philly girl.

I mentioned a lot of you. Gotta LOVE publicity! Please take a look at it here

http://propsblog.com/interview-with-fashion-and-commercial-photographer-jeff-cohn/

Leah Waddill: Where are you from? Where is most of your work done?

Jeff Cohn: I was born and raised in Delran NJ, which is a small suburb of Philadelphia. I moved to Philly after college and have lived in or around the city for the past ten years.

Most of my work is shot in my home studio located in North East Philadelphia. My living room is converted into a studio space, which provides the best of both worlds; convenient location and I have my TV and DVD’s handy while MUA’s do makeup.

Leah Waddill: Do you travel often for your photography?

Jeff Cohn: My first real gig was tour photographer for the band KMFDM, We did the whole US in 40 days, 36 cities. Since then my travel has been fairly limited. I was co-coordinator/founder of Catwalk Tragedy (Alternative Beauty Pageant) which took me to Orlando and NYC for shows. Other than that I have been very much a homebody, I love Philadelphia but if someone wants to pay me to go visit other places I will gladly jump on a plane.

Leah Waddill: Wow! So, how long ago was your first publicized work? What was it? (READ MORE)

Lemme know what you think!!

If any of you out there in blog-land (or magazine land) are interested in setting up an interview with a fashion photographer, please let me know, I love doing these things.

Sept 19th REFLECTIONS Launch Party - Philly, PA - AIDS CHARITY BENEFIT

There's a great event this Saturday in Philly, you should all go and support it. Come say hi too :)

RSVP on MODEL MAYHEM, MYSPACE, or FACEBOOK and recieve a bonus raffle ticket and off $5 the price of the REFLECTIONS Calendar or REFLECTIONS Calendar & MAC Viva Glam Lipstick package!
Myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Appl … '}&g=1
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107067523228

REFLECTIONS is a 12 month Alice in Wonderland themed calendar that has been a collaboration between 12 models and 12 photographers from the NYC, Philly, and DC areas. Created as a benefit project, all sales of the calendar will be donated to local Philly AIDS charities!

Come out on September 19th from 8pm-1am and help us celebrate the launch of this calendar for a great cause!

It will be a great night for anyone and everyone! So come out and join us!

Art Gallery
Art show featuring local Philly artists - photographers, painters, sculptors in a wide array of styles and mediums. We're still booking artists for the gallery, so contact me for more details and submit your samples soon before we book up!

Also the official unveiling of never before seen photography by Jason Hyde, DKE, Candylust, Peach Giant and many more!

Music
A local jazz band starts the night out mellow and at 10pm DJ Mighty Mike Saga turns it up a notch for the fashion show and performances!

Alternative Fashion Show
Featuring great designers including Shadows and Monsters Apparel , Itzy Bitzy's Hats, Sibyl Vain Clothing, Deanna Danger Designs and more! We're still looking for accessory designers! Contact me for more details!

Burlesque
Before the end of the night, miss Deanna Danger will treat you all to a burlesque performance that's sure to please!

We will also have vendors (still renting out tables, contact for details!), raffles, and contest to look forward to! You'll even be able to buy items from some of our amazing runway designers!

Through the night we will be serving free food. None of that crappy chips in a bowl some events put out. We'll have high quality catered food including veggie and fruit trays and hot hors' dourves. Tea, coffee and water will be available as well. $2 beer and wine all night from the bar!

18+ with valid ID only
$10 donation at the door
Dress: Look classy or sassy!

Fortress of the Arts
221 Glenwood Ave
Philadelphia, PA
Huge murals outside! 5 floor factory TOWER! Can't miss it!
Free on street parking

If anyone has interest in helping out in anyway please contact Rebecca via email at reflectionsbenefit@gmail.com and we can get right down to it!

Andrew Norton - Fashion Photographer

This is wonderfully entertaining.

Rebecca Helen Wales (with Elvis and Setzer)

Rebecca Helen Wales (with Elvis and Setzer)
Originally uploaded by FashionAndAdvertisingDotCom

One of the pleasures of a home-studio is that my pug and kitten are always around, this has actually lead to them both becoming rather good models. Sometimes too good. I warn all my models regardless of their experience level that the dog has SIX years of modeling experience under his belt. He's posed with the models like Nikki Moose, Audrey Kitching, Fische, Mayte, Alyson Allegra, etc and been shot by Jeff Beirman, MojoKiss, Angelrift, Mysefl and a few others....He has 1200+ friends on his myspace page.

The cat has been shot by a few photographers as well and has actually stolen a shot (by Ken Norcross) away from Key and Kellie Taylor...

So when Rebecca said she wanted to pose with the pug I gave her the warnings. She's damn good. I love shooting her, but she learned quickly as she watched Elvis change his pose, expression and often position in every shot that she was out-matched. She does make a really hot prop for them though.

Models:
Rebecca Helen Wales (modelmayhem)

Elvis Pugsly ( Myspace)
Setzer(no link yet)

JeffCohnPhoto.com Commercial Photography Philadelphia

JeffCohnPhoto.com Commercial Photography Philadelphia
Originally uploaded by FashionAndAdvertisingDotCom

So I don't just shoot hot chicks, I shoot a lot of random stuff for a wide and diverse clientele. This here I believe is the ahi tuna shot during my recent portfolio venture down at the wonderful Darlings Restaurant. Darlings is located in the Piazza in Northern Liberties and is probably one of my favorite places to hang out, do meetings, and just run into random people like Psydde Delicious, Megan Massacre and Kencredible.

I am currently marketing myself to restaurants in search of quality advertising, menu, and web site images to show off their culinary skills.

I just recently went and got myself two new marketing and sales assistants. Tricia (Fashion designer) will be handling fashion, boutique's, designers, and salons, while Maddie (food marketing major) will be focused on commercial business and restaurants.

I am extremely excited to work with both of them and can not wait to get the new print material in their hands!

LindsyAnne - Commercial Photography by Jeff Cohn Philadelphia

LindsyAnne - Commercial Photography by Jeff Cohn Philadelphia
Originally uploaded by FashionAndAdvertisingDotCom

Something a bit different. I was working on LindsyAnne's images last night while trying to catch up on the two zillion shoots I am behind on, and I got the urge to make the last one all crazy photo-shopped. So i played with layers and blend-modes and filters and liquefy and brushes till I was finally actually happy with the end result.

Reminds me of something I'd see in Clear Magazine, which means I Like it.

The rest of her shoot (what's edited so far) was for my commercial portfolio and her compcards/Portfolio for Wilhelmina of PA. Hopefully they'll like the shots and give me lots of work too.

Model Link www.modelmayhem.com/714882

More regular shots available on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcohnphoto/

New Card Designs - What do you think?

So I've been planning new cards for a while and the other day my friend/Model/Graphic Design pal Kellie Taylor came over to help me design the card for JeffCohnPhoto.com. Once that was complete the next task was the more difficult; come up with a card for Fashionandadvertising.com that I'd be happy with. I tend to use my cards for a few months and often times they're my first impression with new clients or potential clients, so I'm very picky and never totally satisfied. I hated my last card.

So here's an unveiling of the new cards (so far). I want your feedback and opinions, I will listen to everyone however I do have specific goals and target markets in mind for each card, as well as reasons I used the colors, images, etc the way I did, but Give me your thoughts and feedback and I'll take it all in before these go to print.

Followers? Who are you?

It appears that I only have three people currently following this blog, yet people seem to comment, follow-up and discuss with me in person my entries all the time... so there's a slight discrepancy between people reading the blog and people clicking "Follow this". I'd love to change that. I invite anyone and everyone who is reading this to follow it, share it, re-post it on your face-twit-space's. etc. I want this blog to really grow and evolve. I want your comments and feedback.

I'm also not opposed to holding a blog-only contest for a free shoot (locally) or free print (Nationally) so tell me what you think bloggers, what would you like to see more of here? How am I doing so far? Have you shared this blog with any of your friends? Let's hear ya :)

I made this neat lil Icon/banner for you to post everywhere as well

<a href="http://jeffcohn.blogspot.com/"> <br /><img src="http://www.x-pose.net/deepfocus.jpg" border="0"> </a>

Where has all the good print gone?

Here are some of my all time favorite Fashion magazines. It seems as if they're all going to be out of print before I actually get to the point where I can shoot for one of them. Maybe, just maybe my local Barnes and Noble just sucks, I'm more than willing to concede that as a possibility , especially since I have been going to the one at the Neshaminy Mall and one only needs to walk around that mall for 10 minutes to know that they have no sense of style or fashion. Or is this the symptom of the larger issue. Are these magazines doing well? Is the internet totally taking over print as a viable format? Have people learned to rely on blogs, websites and the like for Fashion Photography? Unfortunately in many cases it would appear so.

I recently tried to subscribe to Z!nk Magazine, I looked on their site.... the subscription link doesn't work. I sent in a check, it got returned. I emailed and then called only to find out that they currently don't HAVE a subscription house and aren't taking new subscriptions! What the hell is that? So now if I want Zink at my door each month, I have to go to Barnes n Noble and hope they have it in stock still. They probably only order one or two issues per store... so good luck with that.

Ok, So I'm more than happy to buy an issue of Noi.se or Muse instead... Oops, I haven't even seen Noi.se in a store in over a year, when I DID find them I got the last issue. One of the best magazines I've EVER seen, but totally unavailable to the public to purchase. Muse and V have a little bit better circulation, but are still very hit and miss... Another Magazine; I've found once.

I have a subscription to Clear, W, and Vogue...I still barely ever see any issues of Clear. I think their run is now 4 issues a year. It's a shame really.

Whose to blame here? Well YOU ARE. If you love these magazines, If you love seeing the most dramatic eye catching and brilliant fashion photography and models in the world, if you don't want to have to look up a URL and stare at a screen to see it, go to your local book store and DEMAND they start stocking more of these. I know I'm not the only one out there that loves these magazines, they need your help and support. In a time when jobs for models, makeup artists, photographers and stylists are becoming more and more scarce we have to make sure this medium that we love so much doesn't die.

http://www.vmagazine.com/

http://www.zinkmag.com/

http://www.highlightsmag.com/noise.php?noise_id=1#

http://www.clearmag.com/

http://www.anothermag.com/

Couldn't find a link for Muse's website.

I love you, man... Seth Green update, Haley band...

I just watched "I love you man" and I have to say it was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I actually laughed to tears in some parts. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.

Also wanted to recap from the blog earlier about the Seth Green / Robot Chicken Philadelphia thing. Alicia, Nicole and I went over after Alicia's shoot, about 200 people were there already, ran into Howard (Friend of Seth's from high school that I met at the Meet & Greet last Saturday) and within a few moments we were standing with Seth in the back of the parking lot. He seemed to remember me but it's kinda hard to tell, though he did ask about mutual friends so I guess he did. We discussed doing a shoot together next time he's in town, hopefully that'll happen. Afterwards I ran into Stripes from Haley and Optimus Hymen (Gwar/ Rigor Mortis Revue/ Model) Extra special thank you to Tabitha for telling me about the event!

I had Alicia take a photo of us and then I took some of Seth with the girls. Enjoy


Me and Seth Green (2009)

Alicia and Seth Green


Nicole and Seth Green