Who knew the weather was so unpredictable in Palm Springs in January!?! We had a hail storm come out of no where! It was nuts! This was one of the many remote shoots we did during 2020/2021 season. Unfortunately, our lovely clients couldn’t come from Sweden - so we had to do it all over ZOOM! It’s amazing how easily we adapt and figure things out! For this one- we had to create a Mediterranean look and feel, so I brought in plaster textured walls and floors to our location - incredible how it transformed the space.

This was June 2020.. I hadn’t worked since the beginning of March when the world shuttered & all my jobs were canceled. I was so so so thrilled to be back at work, especially for Architectural Digest, and particularly this house! I was incredibly inspired by the colors, textures and playfulness of this home. Interiors designed by Ghislane Vinas, with architecture by the home owner Chet Callahan. Trevor Tondro of course providing ladder gymnastics for some great BTS footage.

I always love being able to come back to NYC for a shoot. Living in LA for the past 5 years has been wonderful, but there is nothing like NYC. It will always feel like home to me. This shoot was particularly cool because we normally would shoot something like this on location. It was a great opportunity to do some really cool set building, using architectural salvage pieces you can ONLY find in New York :) Marble fireplace mantels from the old Ritz Carlton, for example… I meannnnn who doesn’t love that?!

The second trip to Cape Town with H&M Home was such an incredible experience. We were shooting in the wine region just outside of the city called Franschhoek. It is truly one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Fields of grape, citrus and olive trees fill the landscape with the dramatic mountains in the distance. It was also an honor because H&M Home had asked me to be featured in front of the camera as the stylist for their summer campaign. I was so honored and thrilled at the opportunity.

I had never been to Sweden before - so I was so incredibly excited for this shoot! And Stockholm in June was so insanely gorgeous! The sun went down at 11pm and then up again at 3am! I felt very lucky to be in this stunning city at spring time- Mid Summer, one of their biggest celebrations. We were shooting in a castle like house on a little island just east of Stockholm called Lidingö. It was so fun to the on the home turf of the H&M team.

On this same trip we flew to London to do a very special campaign with Poppy Delevingne for H&M Home. We shot stills with Damian Russle and video with director Donald Schneider of her in her gorgeous flat. Visiting the flower markets of various cities around the world is always my favorite thing for me - and London’s was one of the most amazing I’ve ever seen. You can see from the photos below, I went a little nuts. Also, I live for a local fruit and vegetable market.

Photographer Brie Williams and I have the good fortune to get to travel to some of Jamaica's most incredible resorts for work!! We go about 3-4 times a year, and always have some sort of crazy adventure- It's just the two of us doing EVERYTHING so I'm often holding fill cards, acting as digital tech, even hair styling!!! The incredible people we have met and become friends with and all of the lush beauty of the island make all that hard work worth it. I really do feel so incredibly blessed to be a part of this. Thank you Brie <3

Travel jobs are always fun - especially when you get to go to warm and beautiful places like Miami. I love landing in a new city and figuring it all out - where to find things, how to make it all work and do it within your time frame & budget is always a learning curve. 

Shooting for Saatchi Wellness, pharma always stretches the creativity in particular ways that I really enjoy. This shoot was all over the place - we had mini golf, canoeing, kayaking, ice skating, game rooms, tire swings, pontoon boats, tubing, puppies, pinata parties, ping pong, ice hockey, tail gating to name a few ;) and we did it all in less than a week!

30 days straight, 7 locations, all-star crew! WHAT A SHOOT!!

This was a marathon of a shoot - but we never stopped having fun. We shot in abandoned mansions, a ship captian's house from the 1780s, a Great Gatsby-esque villa - turned abandoned nunnery, an enviously restored barn upstate among other incredible locations. Everyday was a creative and logistical challenge as well as being a bit like summer camp. Thanks to Simon Watson our brilliant photographer, Lilian Hough our uber-talented creative director and Kara Packouz our superhero of a producer these 30 days went off pretty darn flawlessly. I am so proud of the finished product and can easily say it's some of the best work I've ever done. Pictured below are a lot of shenanigans with Hugh and Sam my two amazing assistants, and the rest of this awesome crew. 

I had the amazing opportunity to work with photographer Mikkel Vang, who I have been a super-fan of for so long.  With the all-star team at Saatchi Wellness at the helm - this was an extraordinary crew.  We shot at 2 gorgeous homes in Malibu and had a sunrise shoot in Malibu Creek State Park.  We created from scratch  a coffee house on a fall day, a beach board walk, an outdoor restaurant, a library, an art gallery, camping scenes and we even had a fire pit! It was a whirlwind, but a blast and I cannot wait to do it again !

Anthropologie comes to LA!!

We shot in two incredible locations in Malibu and Venice with photographer Simon Watson. Pictured here are mostly my two guys Hugh and Patrick hard at work building an amazing base for our rug house on a VERY windy hill.  We also floated a bed in a pool, shot during an unsual LA downpour, and rigged a hammock sturdy enough to actually hold the model. That gorgeous shot I'm proud to say, made the cover of the book! 

We went to Trancoso Brazil - which is quite a journey, but well worth it & definitely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. We shot in and around the town of Trancoso & at this incredible hotel/spa UXUA. It was hands down one of the NICEST places I've ever been..  Our photographer Erik Madigan Heck captured the saturated colors and vibrancy of this gorgeous off the beaten path place.

This job was a whirlwind of unprecedented crazy genius. I know, I know... that sounds like an over dramatization.. but really. It was. First of all, I got to work with the superstar agency 72 and Sunny (and we actually made the top 10 of Ad Age's 2014 List AND got an honorary Webby!!!). This project was genuinely groundbreaking - it was realized at at the infancy of video on Instagram; when all content HAD to be shot on an iPhone.  We also had the added challenge of accomplishing this all in real time.. meaning - in real time we would receive submissions from Target Instagram followers to be featured on the Target Instagram feed. Then a crew of writers and storyboard artists from 72 & Sunny would concept ideas around the chosen submissions. They would then come to my team to make them a reality. It was an impressive mix of low-tech and cutting edge technology working together. 

This was a super hectic shoot for Town & Country Magazine. We had 2 cars, a 30 foot boat , a golf cart, a custom made dock, a canoe, trees, teepees, hedges.. never mind an army of taxidermied squirrels, birds, rabbits and a moose!! On top of all that we had a ton of gorgeous product to feature for Town & Country's Travel Issue. Amongst all of the craziness I managed to get these two shots of my assistants. A few of my favorite behind the scenes captures ever. 

I got the opportunity to make an amazing cloud set for MORE Magazine & Phil Toledano - so of course we HAD to take our own photos!! Here are some cuties of me and my superstar assistant Chaunte Vaugn :) So fun!

Traveled to Jamestown Rhode Island with Brooks Brothers for a super preppy shoot featuring Kiel James Patrick  Photographer Carlo Miari Fulcis & the Brooks crew are always so much fun.. they even treated us to a good old fashioned New England Style lobster bake!! Lucky us!