Tony, on drums

Kyle Kinane has had me in a conundrum... in the land of milk and honey

In March, comedian Kyle Kinane volunteered to be the latest subject in a personal series I'm working on called Food is Funny. We shot in Hollywood at Tulino Design Group's studio and teamed up with food stylist extraordinaire Sienna DeGovia.

The premise for the series is simple: my favorite comedians photographed with food. The artsy catch is that it must say something about their comedic style. If you don't understand the artistic choices below I hope you'll check out Kyle's comedy. His album "Whiskey Icarus" is my favorite comedy album right now.

Often times I see exactly what I want in my mind's eye before I shoot. Other times I give myself options - and then add a subject like Kyle, who ultimately gave me too much of a good thing - and now I'm left reeling trying to pick one image. It's a good place to be, don't get me wrong.

Here's a taste.

I'm leaning towards this one, though. Tomorrow I'll post some behind the scenes.

Cotogna

 My brother, Eric, has been in town for the holidays visiting from Austin, TX and wanted to see his sis at work. When SF Weekly sent me to shoot for Jonathan Kauffman's review of Cotogna I enlisted him to assist. I kept him on his toes following me around with lights and reflectors, and made him carry all my gear just like a little sister should. He has a lifetime of big brother karma he's working off so it was a win-win.

Chef Tim Caspare with spit roasted pork.

Chef Tim Caspare and team were so incredibly great to work with and even made a wood-fired pizza especially for my assistant on top of all the dishes we shot. A slideshow of more shots can be seen here.

Brother gives it the thumb's up and contemplates a career change into photo assisting.

SF Weekly: The Naked Guys

SF Weekly put me on Lauren Smiley's feature story covering the 'naked guys' in the Castro, whom (if you live in San Francisco) you may have seen socializing in the public area at Market and Castro streets where the F Train ends. Fun fact: public nudity in San Francisco is not a crime.

I shot my unclad subjects in the Castro a couple of times for the story but art director, Andrew Nilsen, came up with an idea for  the cover that we executed in the studio with a paper set that mimiced the Castro. We were both really happy with the results and I think it's a testimony to what you can still do with paper and tape.

It was late when we were done with the shoot and going over the images; Andrew started choreographing the review to the latest Scissor Sisters album I had playing on set. In this day and age of multimedia it made it onto SF Weekly's website, and is maybe one of favorite parts of the story. It's not work safe as there is nudity, of course.



More interviews and BTS:

SF Weekly Cover this week

I shot  Jane Kim for the cover of SF Weekly this past Wednesday. Art direction and concept by Andrew Nilsen.

When my heart is broken I fill the internet with puppies

Oscar

  Loki

I also made a video for Geoff's memorial and posted it on YouTube for those who couldn't attend.

Rest in peace, Geoffery

My friend, Geoffery Emmett, passed away last night around 2 AM due to his battle with lung cancer. I took this photo of him, with his 8 year-old son, back in March. He will be very deeply missed by us - his friends and family.

Mod

Nic and Donna hired me to shoot them in the sixtie's mod style of Quadrophenia while I was in Seattle. They get mad props for fun concept, which was entirely their own. I went with a cross processed look to try and enhance the feel. Many thanks goes out to Mike, my assistant and scooter wrangler.

Cousin Patrick

I met up with my cousin Patrick yesterday for brunch in Berkeley. We hadn't seen one another since... well, we guesstimate I might have been eleven.

The good news: he's super cool. I'm optimistic there will be more brunches in our future. 

Shai

Shai
Originally uploaded by Lady K

Model: Shai White
MUA: Mother Joseph
Dress: Miranda Caroligne

Miss Kay

Miss Kay
Originally uploaded by Lady K

I'm in Seattle this week, which seems to be populated with lots of lovely people that want to hire me to take their pictures. Two of my good friends started the trend by asking me to come up and do pet photos which I love to do, as well as the whole people and food thing.

Sam

My long-time friend, Samantha, is a bellydancer on the East Coast these days. Recently she hired me to shoot some promo shots. This was one of her favorites. You can see it larger here.

Raven for Silver Lucy print spread

Raven for Silver Lucy print spread
Originally uploaded by Lady K

Pretty girl wearing pretty prints with pretty popsicles. You have to view it on my Flickr page to see the pretty eyes, though.

Marina

Marina
Originally uploaded by Lady K

Lisa

Lisa
Originally uploaded by Lady K

On Sunday my friend Lisa did a photo shoot with me - the day before her breast cancer surgery. She is longing to document her truth of the process, but she still let me get all "artsy" as well. She truly is a breathtakingly beautiful woman.