Agent Doug Truppe Presents The Creative Corner: Photographer/Director Dennis Welsh Talks with Creative Director Mark Bappe of CTP, Boston

We bring a new series of candid chats between our award-winning photographers/directors and a creative of their choice from the industry.

Photographer/director Dennis Welsh, based in New England, talks with long-time friend and Creative Director Mark Bappe of CTP, Boston. Informal, informative and always honest, we look forward to doing more of these brief creative get-togethers. See witty and urbane stories and motion work from Dennis  here.

We hope you enjoy the sessions and would love to hear from you. If you are an industry creative and would like to participate, get your voice and ideas out there, feel free to contact us: hello@dougtruppe.com.

Click on the image below for the talk.

Creative Director Marke Bappe (left) with Dennis Welsh (right).

Kevin Steele Is a Winner in APA LA 2021 Off the Clock Competition

Congratulations to  Kevin Steele, an APA LA 2021 Off the Clock Competition winner,  for his black-and-white  image of a woman and her dogs from the series “Life on Pause.”   (See  earlier post on the project.)  “Life on Pause” is a personal project documenting life in quarantine in an unprecedented time.  Shot through the front door, being safe, into the space of self-isolation, the project reveals life apart and together. “As a commercial location photographer my work is full of color and emotion.  This brings me back to my roots documenting life. One camera, one prime lens, black and white. No assistants, simple,” Kevin says.

 The image  will also appear in color with text as part of an ad spread in Luerzer’s Archive  coming out mid-July. See more updates and personal work at Kevin’s Instagram.

APA LA 2021 Off the Clock winning image.

Walter Smith Documents the Year 2020 in Review

Award-winning photographer/director Walter Smith looks back at the year 2020 with a very personal and creative perspective. He shares his thoughts, his imagery and words month by month in a streamlined and reflective FlowPaper format. “2020 Year in Review” is a great documentation of his ongoing experience of the pandemic as well as changes in his personal life. It's not always pretty but it's always honest. See history here and some of his thought-provoking images below. Find ongoing updates and personal work on Walter’s Instagram as well.

Click on the image above to see the Year 2020 in Review.

Andy Goodwin Gets Personal and Wins Awards

Despite all the hardships of the past year, we can note some bright spots. Andy Goodwin had quite a rewarding and award-winning year. He was honored by Luerzer’s Archive for his “Queen for a Day” photography/CGI series created in collaboration with Filtre Studio featuring his image of the "Queen in the Kitchen."  AI-AP honored him for a movie poster shot for a horror B-movie featured at SXSW. And to top it off, Creative Quarterly recognized his personal work from the series “Isolated.” Shot during the pandemic, “Isolated” captured friends and neighbors removed from their environments and living in isolation. 

Award-winning images pre-pandemic and during the crisis.

Water Portraits below is another ongoing personal project.   Andy  spent a lot of time constructing a setup to explore the idea of shooting underwater portraits. It was a wet process where caution was needed. “One of the biggest hurdles is giving direction to the models whose heads are usually submerged, so I landed on the idea of giving the subject control of the camera with a long cable release and letting them take the picture whenever they determined to be the decisive moment,” says Andy.  A lot of fun and very cool, the portraits turned out so well that both the prestigious Communication Arts and Creative Quarterly  featured  the series.

Andy Goodwin Shows the Faces of Isolation and More

Andy Goodwin has posted  new  personal work from a series  called “Isolated.”  The first  8 portraits in the  gallery  are  of friends and neighbors  removed from their environments and living in isolation. “Isolated” is a good name for both the technique used and for the sense of isolation a lot of us are feeling these days. 

Andy  photographed everyone on his own, pushing a cart full of gear to the subjects’ homes and setting up a portrait in their backyards. The slight sense of background was added later in post using images from his stock library. Along with these striking portraits, there is more award-winning work from multiple projects shot pre-pandemic at his Personal Gallery and @goodwinphoto.    

From the series Isolated.

From the series Isolated.

Water Portraits- Shot prior to the pandemic, this award-winning series has been featured in Communication Arts and Creative Quarterly.

Water Portraits- Shot prior to the pandemic, this award-winning series has been featured in Communication Arts and Creative Quarterly.