Dagbladet August 2005
Apple Store Soho New York 2007
Gallerie Thoma & Thoma 2007
The Birth Of Buzz Foto
The big news is that I am back in the photo agency business once again. I started Buzz Foto with my brilliant business partner, Henry Flores. Henry has been in the industry for years and we make a wonderful team. This agency is all about making iconic photographs of celebrities for magazines and newspapers.
We studied the market before we started Buzz Foto and came to the obvious conclusion that Paparazzi is what the magazines want these days. It is evident that when executed properly and professionally, this is an expectable form of journalism and it is not going away anytime soon.
We promised ourselves that we would strive to have our photographers make beautiful iconic photographs which would have the potential to hang on the walls of MoMA one day next to the works of Walker Evans, Helen Levitt and Bresson. That is how we came up with Buzz Foto's "Paparazzi As An Art Form" and we are about to produce our very first "Paparazzi As An Art Form" photo exhibition in Los Angeles. We hope that it will be the first of many.
Last fall, Henry and I were invited to speak in New York at the Apple Store, SoHo where we shared with the capacity crowd the stories behind our photographs. The showcase featured my seventies and eighties photos and covered all of the modern work that Henry does daily with Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie.
Gallerie Thoma & Thoma 2007
Last year I was contacted by Basel artist Marco Pittori inquiring if he could use my "Behind The Beverly Hills Hotel" as inspiration for one of his modern conceptual paintings. I agreed and I flew to Basel to join Marco for a group show at at Gallerie Thoma & Thoma last May. The show was a big success and we became instant friends. We hope to do other shows together in Europe and Los Angeles in 2008.