Poster-Sized Pictures of Ab-tastic Men Promo Mailed
My assistant Dave and I just dropped my latest mailer into the USPS’s hands. The 17 x 22 inch poster, printed on newsprint, features some of the beefcakes that I photographed for Philadelphia Magazine back in 2010. The images ran in the 2011 Best of the Shore issue in a photo essay about New Jersey [...]
“Generations” Feature in Philadelphia Magazine
I was tapped by the good people at Philly Mag to produce a set of portraits of people who will help shape various facets of Philadelphia life in the near future. As always, I want to thank every one of the subjects for their patience and help in making these images that I am proud [...]
New Work in Wharton Magazine
It’s always fun to get out of your usual box and try something new. For this feature in the Wharton Magazine, the editor and art director had told me they wanted vibrant, punchy colors because we going to be photographing the students against colorful flags. So I turned to one of color photography’s best friends…the [...]
Awesome New Feature on Portfolio Site
There’s a great new feature on my website, which will allow all you wonderful people out there to download a custom PDF of my photographs. Want to show your clients a selection of my images? Want to print out a couple cool photos for you wall? Go here: http://ryandonnell.com/pdf/ and try it out. It’s easy [...]
Brand New Website!
I finally got my new website live today. The navigation and layout should feel familiar, but the photos are presented bigger and more boldly, though still in two-dimensions. (3D in version 2.0, maybe?) Please check it out when you get a chance: http://www.ryandonnell.com. I’d love to hear any feedback that you might have. And as [...]
New Clip in Philadelphia Magazine: City of Brotherly Brew
Philly Mag’s Design Director Michael McCormick gave me what might’ve been the best assignment ever: shoot photographs of the local beer scene in and around Philadelphia. So began two weeks of hanging with some cool beer writers, brewers and pub owners. Not to mention, the awesome couple of days spent trying to get that perfect [...]
End of an Era – The Pulse, aka Philadelphicon
Be forewarned that I might get a little sappy here. I’ve been known to do so. The March issue of Philadelphia Magazine marks the end of a small epoch for me. Since November of 2005, I’ve been given the honor of making the opening photograph of the calendar section in Philadelphia Magazine. I haven’t made [...]
New Clips: Yoga Journal
Just received a couple of clips of published images, which I made last year in NYC. They were shot for Yoga Journal‘s department sections in the Feb. issue. It was a fun assignment, if challenging. It went down like this: Yoga Journal asked me to shoot 3 separate assignments in one day because all the [...]
From the Archive: Ireland.
In an effort to expand my presence in this whole Internet thing (I hear it’s going to be big.), I wanted to start exploring the capabilities to share images from my archive on this blog using Photoshelters’ Way-Too-Powerful-for-Ryan-to-Understand marketing tools. So here is a small slideshow of images from my Ireland visit last year, with [...]
Cover of "M" Magazine in Abu Dhabi
Just wanted to post a link to another recent cover I photographed. This time for a client in Abu Dhabi, “M” Magazine, which is the Saturday magazine for The National newspaper. Big ups to my friend Kerri Abrams for helping me secure the gig.
A Bit o' Buzzzzzzz
So I’m knee chin deep in production right now for a ad shoot, but I’ve got a little bit of news about a web launch. And on top of that, I’ve received a couple of nice shout-outs this week. First, I’ve launched a dedicated site for my ongoing Philadelphia Polling Place Project. It was put [...]
Martin Guitar Ad
I finally found the ad, which I produced for Martin Guitars last winter, in print. This was in the premier issue of Guitar Afficiando magazine. It was one of the coldest shoots that I’ve been on for a long time. So big ups go out to Tierney Art Buyer Wylie Moran, Art Director Andy Benson [...]
New Work & Happy Holiday.
Just a quick end-of-the-day note (though I’m sure most peeps are already heading “Down the Shore”) to let everyone know that I’ve uploaded a few new images to the New Work section of my website. This update includes some images from my new, and on-going, project on roller skating here in Philly. Enjoy the holiday!
Project Update….Rollerskatin'
Just back from a week in sunny Virginia, hangin’ with my homeys Rachael outta NYC and photographer/assistant extraordinaire Ryan Collerd. Since I can’t show the awesome photos we produced down in VA, yet, I thought I’d post a few more images from my rollerskating project. These are scans from some rolls that were processed just [...]
New Promo Card
My spring promo card is being mailed out as I type this paragraph. All I can say about it is…please don’t throw it away, please don’t throw it away, please don’t throw it away. If you’d like to receive these awesome little jewels of cardboard and ink, feel free to drop me a line at [...]
Clips – April
Funny thing this month: I have two clips, from two separate magazines, that are so similar in theme and use of design. Both designers selected tight headshots of the subjects from my shoots and then also used food in the opposing title page design. The use of color in both is great also. I think [...]