Carlo Mendez — Capturing at the LA Studio Actors Headshots Los Angeles

May 31, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles

There are sitters who arrive carrying their work in their face before they've said a word, and Carlo Mendez is one of them. He came into the Main Street studio on a bright Downtown morning, and within a few minutes it was clear this was a man entirely at ease in front of a lens — which, for a photographer, is both a gift and a quiet challenge. Ease can flatten a portrait if you let it. The task becomes finding the moment underneath the comfort.

The Los Angeles Experience — New Headshots for Sasha

May 29, 2026 in Los Angeles, Actors Headshots, Model Headshots

There's a particular kind of luck in photographing someone you know completely. With Sasha I've now made more portraits than of any other subject I've ever worked with, and these latest frames from the LA studio are some of the ones I keep returning to. The cropped platinum hair, the stacked silver ear pieces, the Adidas track top with its three stripes — there's an austere, almost sculptural confidence to her here that the lighting was built to serve rather than soften.

Kadu De Rosa — a quiet kind of presence

May 29, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles

These are recent Los Angeles actor headshots, photographed last week in my Downtown LA studio. Kadu is an imposing presence and a genuinely talented actor — the kind of subject who makes the room go a little quieter the moment he settles in front of the camera.

Sasha — Look Book 2026, Part II

May 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, Fashion Photography

A fine-art counterpoint — the Shakespearean turn.

In the afternoon of the same day, with the same team, we struck the grey and pulled velvet down behind her. The morning had been commercial — clean light, sculpted silhouettes, the architecture of fashion. The afternoon belonged to something else entirely. We had time and a model willing to play, so we made the work I most like to make: fine art, theatrical, painterly, indebted to the canvas before the camera.

Sasha — Look Book, 2026

May 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, Fashion Photography

A new portfolio of images for the season ahead.

There is a particular discipline in photographing someone you know completely. The temptation is to soften — to default to the familiar. Sasha permits no such thing. She arrives at the studio in character, and the work becomes a negotiation between the woman I know and the woman the lens insists upon.

Ben Palacios Actors Headshots at the Downtown Los Angeles Studio

May 24, 2026 in Actors Headshots, Los Angeles

Ben Palacios came through the Downtown Los Angeles studio last week, as part of an ongoing refresh of the actor look book — a deliberate evolution of lighting, styling and approach intended to give clients the distinction casting directors are now demanding.