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Last activity: Nov 29, 2009
Joined: Jun 07, 2007


Lou Benjamin

Male
Near the foot of Mt. Beacon, New York
>> My other portfolio: #535000 >>

Mayhem #421156
Photographer


MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/LouBenjamin

About me
PORTRAITS, BEAUTY, FASHION
This is portfolio #1, which is centered around artful editorial and fashion projects.

I'm interested in doing compelling images of people that are about narratives or symbolic ideas.

I've just moved to the Hudson Valley, and I'm still getting set-up. Stay tuned for new cool stuff...

Credits
Interview
with MM's own Unbearable Lightness on Univers d'Artistes regarding art-making and black and white vs. color in fine art. Read >>

Published Books
The Naked and the Lens: A guide to fine art nude photography from concept to post-production. Published by Focal Press, available at Amazon and in book stores in the US and overseas.

For info, interviews and reference materials, see the companion site: TheNakedAndTheLens.com

Photoshop CS4 in Simple Steps: A straightforward introduction to Photoshop that covers basic- and intermediate- level tasks in simple, stepwise terms. Published by Prentice Hall in the UK. Purchasers in the US can find resellers via Amazon.


Published Photography
- International Center of Photography
- Skope Magazine
- Brother Hijinx
- Jake Stigers
- First Act Guitars


Exhibitions
2009
- "Top of the Heap"; Pinnacle Design Center Gallery, San Gabriel, CA

2008
- "Identity Formed & Transformed" (juried exhibition); St. Joseph's University Gallery, Brooklyn

2007
- "BrooklyNature" (juried exhibition); St. Joseph's University Gallery, Brooklyn

2005
- "Urban Poetry"; Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn
- SVA Summer Residency Open Studios; SVA Gallery, Manhattan
- "Show Us the Light" - Finalist (juried exhibition); Positive Focus, GalleryThe, Brooklyn

2004
- SONYA Group show; Robert Lehman Gallery at Urban Glass, Brooklyn
- "Urban Glimmer" (solo show); 200 5th Ave Gallery, Brooklyn

Lists
**My Work in Other Ports   13 pics
A Matter of Perspective   332 pics
Beyond Lingerie   489 pics
Bodies in Motion   72 pics
COLOR with a Bang!, Whimper, Whisper... or in Theory   397 pics
Diptychs, Triptychs & Polyptychs   163 pics
Echo in Your Head   44 pics
Exceptional Images   600 pics
Fashion = Sex   259 pics
Fashion Statements   607 pics
Figure/Form/Line   568 pics
Find the edge... and step over   287 pics
Fotokunst (Photo Art)   852 pics
Gesture   178 pics
In Memoriam   18 pics
Interior Nudes   123 pics
Light Takes a Bow   419 pics
Malleable   231 pics
Naked Abstraction   118 pics
Non-photo Artworks   13 pics
Nude With a Capital ART   802 pics
Nudes & Nature   223 pics
Ohhhh... Eros!   346 pics
Old School Still Kicks Butt   25 pics
P* Control : )   54 pics
Pictures With Tales   443 pics
Pointing at Painting (and Drawing)   179 pics
Portrait Nudes & Partial Nudes   401 pics
Portraits, Period   356 pics
Powered by MUA   258 pics
Re: Desire   114 pics
Sci-Fi-Super-Hero-Space-Babe   89 pics
So Cinematic   327 pics
Style Hall of Fame   37 pics
The Beauty Shot   113 pics
The Ever-Incomplete Who's Who, Vol I   98 pics
The Ever-Incomplete Who's Who, Vol II   59 pics
The Naked City   62 pics
The Power of Symbols   303 pics
The Realm of Emotion   308 pics
Time Sliced Thick, Time Sliced Thin   169 pics
Touch + Four -or- Sense & Sensuality   306 pics
Unclassified (for Now)   91 pics
V for Voluptuous   186 pics


Friends

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Wardrobe Stylist
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Hair Stylist
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Lou Benjamin has 1347 friends.
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LunarCat
Model
2009-11-29 02:40:18
Hello! Thank you for stopping by my page!
Stay in touch so we can check out on each others new works! Looking forward to it!

Take care!
Jay Amed
Model
2009-11-28 17:17:41
Please vote for me daily...Thank you- http://www.exploremodeling.com/Contest/Faceof_ELF_2010/15742/Janet_Amedome.aspx
Jeffery Duran
Photographer
2009-11-28 00:37:13
I like your taste in lists!
jenthemodel
Model
2009-11-25 22:25:33
Gracias! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving in the Hudson Valley. :)
unbearable lightness
Model
2009-11-25 16:09:27
Thank you for giving beauty to our Thanksgiving editorial
http://www.universdartistes.com/2009/11/moment-of-surrender_2898.html
Luna Vary II
Model
2009-11-24 13:49:22
thank you for the comment!
MaCee LeGree
Model
2009-11-18 10:26:07
Thankss =)
The Red Pill
Model
2009-11-18 08:03:47
AAAHHHHHHH this is BEAUTIFUL! I discovered myself on page 43, 76 and 85 so far. Once my ego gets its fill, I'll go back and actually read the book :)
Emmas Designs
Makeup Artist
2009-11-16 10:36:18
My halloween was okay but gave the wonderful excuse of crazy makeup which had all people stopping and staring. I defiantly am, as i expand my business and find things though my house and see how I could glue it on and incorporate it in makeup.
The Red Pill
Model
2009-11-09 15:45:46
Hey, we drove up to Nyack. It was so beautiful - the people, the food, the scenery! The weather was perfect - unseasonably warm for November.
The Red Pill
Model
2009-11-05 18:07:41
Smell my feet! Thanks for the email the other day. I look forward to out paths crossing again soon. I'm actually coming up to your neck of the hood next week for a birthday party.
Kayte Dies
Model
2009-11-04 18:48:34
Thank you!
bastardartist
Photographer
2009-11-02 13:45:27
Hey buddy,

How's the new place treating you!?
I hope everything is well. I've been showing in a lot of galleries...

Marco
Kayte Dies
Model
2009-11-02 10:00:13
Fantastic port :)
Ice Photography
Photographer
2009-11-02 09:38:07
Mr. Lou Hope all is well!
Tammy Hurtado
Model
2009-11-02 08:01:42
Thanks for the welcome and the comment!
One Model NYC
Model
2009-11-01 12:46:09
Nice stuff!
jack rabbit slim
Model
2009-11-01 09:59:30
i was Che Guevara this year ^.^
Whitley M
Model
2009-10-30 00:24:39
Thanks so much
Laylah Belle
Model
2009-10-28 06:44:04
hey! thanx for the photo comments, i appreciate it so much!
model-BitterSweet
Model
2009-10-28 05:43:24
Thank you for all the "detailed" comments. There are not many people that understand the pic with the beard and the helmet...
Steve Trapero
Photographer
2009-10-22 07:26:26
Hey Lou,

It's good to hear back from you! Sorry I didn't get back to you right away. I am up to my eye lids with details for Halloween Bash 5!?! I also have a very good and old photographer friend coming in today from Finland with his wife, staying for 2 weeks with us, to attend our shindig, and hang out with my wife and I.

Thanks for your compliment on the design work on the flyer! This particular flyer I feel is probably the best one yet, and it's nice that I did everything, the design, the photography, the copywriting... :D Too bad you can't make it!?!

I guess, now that my friend from Finland, we can now say the Halloween Bash is "world famous"?!? LOL :P And if you ever show up for one of our bashes, we can say, "famous coast to coast"?!? Hehe :o

I will have to check out the interview after the dust settles, but I will check it out. Hope all is well with you and your wife! Take care buddy!

Best,


Steve
Kellie Peach
Model
2009-10-20 17:46:09
I"m coming out to DC!
Hey, it's closer then NYC. ;)
Nahye
Model
2009-10-18 14:37:40
thanks so much for the comments :)
your opinions mean a lot to me!
Steve Trapero
Photographer
2009-10-18 08:03:11
Hey Lou,

If you find yourself in LA within the next 2 weeks, then...

As you are on my MM Friend's List, and you live in or around LA and OC, I am writing you to personally invite you to my Halloween Bash 5! This year, it is being held on the day before Halloween, on Friday, Oct. 30th at my studio Pinnacle Design Center in San Gabriel (just 15 minutes East of downtown LA). See my profile page for the party's official invitation!

FYI, there are usually from 100 to 400 people who show up! There will be a good number of models, photographers, and make-up artists in attendance! Plan now, to be one of them!?! Leave me a tag or PM if you're planning on being there.

Best,


Steve Trapero (aka DJ Dr. StEvil)
Creative Director, Photographer
Pinnacle Design Center

Gia NYC
Model
2009-10-17 17:11:15
exciting indeed! thank you so much
Sienna Aldridge
Model
2009-10-12 11:03:09
Beautiful book!!!
unbearable lightness
Model
2009-10-09 12:18:04
Your comments on the color vs. b/w are absolutely the most comprehensive and definitive I have received. I am sending you a message about how this might be shared more widely.

Thank you so much!!!
superiorm0del
Model
2009-10-08 22:34:25
hey lou i'm still dying to work with you!
Sienna Aldridge
Model
2009-10-07 20:24:55
A friend of mine saw your book in Borders. I didnt know it was out. Picking it up tomorrow. Hope your well.

Sienna
Jewelz Divine Nude
Model
2009-10-03 19:38:59
It was great working with you Lou. Can't wait to see our work.

Jewelz Divine
Mahogany Edwards
Model
2009-09-30 13:29:15
Looking forward to it =)
LNP Color Me Beautiful
Makeup Artist
2009-09-29 07:44:35
Hey, Lou how you been? What's new?


Latisha-Nicole
Anna Dale
Model
2009-09-28 09:07:38
Haha no, it's a Staten Island reference.
leanna marie jackson
Model
2009-09-25 01:18:02
oh, i couldn't imagine living out the city. i think i'd go insane. it's home.

hope your move goes smoothly today :)
you staying in the nyc area?
Nahye
Model
2009-09-24 16:10:17
thank you so much for the comment and welcome :)
Mesir
Model
2009-09-23 13:09:34
ty:)
great work!
Rebecca Holdridge
Model
2009-09-22 06:50:40
Thaks for the welcome nice work
leanna marie jackson
Model
2009-09-20 21:38:33
the move was from nashville to new orleans. it's beautiful so far, but aren't all things new.

hope your move goes well. :)
Nali Nali
Model
2009-09-20 19:37:51
Thank you for the photo comments, I love how clean your style is, really focuses all the attention on your models.
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