Serpentine by Mark Laita

Raised in Detroit and Chicago Mark Laita studied Photography at the University of Illinois and the Columbia College in Chicago. Already at the age of 15 he explored his passion for this handcraft. In the meantime Mark Laita counts as a successful and established photographer who runs studios in Los Angeles and New York.

Laita travelled across 48 federal states of the USA during the last 7 years. Using a 8x10inch camera he took portraits of people who are representative of those states but unique at the same time. These works cumulated in the fascinating photo book „Created Equal“ which will be presented in our gallery for the first time in Europe.

Fashion Photography by Bruce Weber

Bruce Weber is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines.

Weber’s fashion photography first appeared in the late 1970s in GQ magazine, where he had frequent cover photos. Nan Bush, his longtime companion and agent, was able to secure a contract with Federated Department Stores to shoot the 1978 Bloomingdales mail catalog. He came to the attention of the general public in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his advertising images for Calvin Klein. His straightforward black and white shots, featuring an unclothed heterosexual couple on a swing facing each other, two clothed men in bed, and model Marcus Schenkenberg barely holding jeans in front of himself in a shower, catapulted him into the national spotlight. His photograph of Calvin Klein of Olympic athlete Tom Hintnaus in white briefs is an iconic image. He photographed the winter 2006 Ralph Lauren Collection.