by Jana Cruder

Check out the images in this months issue of COMPLEX Magazine I shot of new movie KICK ASS’s leading actress Lyndsy Fonseca.
Photographed on location at The Crescent Beverly Hills.

This was a really fun shoot! She was great to work with and up for anything!

More from this shoot can be seen at COMPLEX.com

or on my website Jana Photography

Enjoy!!!!
Jana

Father to Son - A family business.

My grandfather started a small fire extinguisher company out the back of a beat up pick up truck in a small rural town outside of Pittsburgh, PA in the mid 50′s.
This business has grown to 80+ employees and a handing down through the generations.
My parents have given me the freedom to choose a path that makes me happy, I’ve chosen not to stay within the family business.
My brother on the other hand, along with his wife have joined the family business with in the past 4 years and are rapidly approaching a point where my father will step down.
To be an outsider watching this transition unfold, I have no choice then to document it.
The slowing down of one chapter of my father’s life and the speeding up of my brothers. This is the cycle of life. I can’t imagine how my father feels. I know he has trained my brother well.
I feel that this image really encapsulates that transition I’m witnessing between them.

Photographed on location at the warehouse in Greensburg, PA

International Pillow Fight Day. April 3rd, 2010. Pershing Square, Downtown Los Angeles.

This assignment started a 3 month long documentary story of a local coffee roastery, opening its doors. The photos are from my first visit to the location and I plan to visit every 2 weeks for the next few months. I will have image updates on my blog here.

I photographed Sean and his son Max. Sean is an animator and musician, so I photographed him playing music with Max. Thanks Sean!

Colin’s BOXeight fashion week photo story recently ran in Brand X Magazine (LA Times).                  Click here for the full gallery on LATimes.com

BOXeight Fashion:Refocus for Brand X Magazine:

Colin also shot six galleries for LA Weekly in March including the Manifest Equality opening below.          Full gallery on LAWeekly.com:

Jennifer shot the cover story of Melissa Auf Der Maur for the Spring 2010 issue of Venus Zine. Please click here to see the whole story.

Title: Documentary Photo Story

Assigner: Colin Young-Wolff

Description: Find a subject or issue that moves you and spend some time with it (whether that means a few hours or a few days is up to you). Use still photographs to tell the story, hopefully revealing something about the character or essence of the subject that a series of snapshots wouldn’t show. Revisit it again if needed.
You can post 3-4 images on TIAPB and then link to a full photo gallery if needed for your story.

Baking bread! I’ve been baking bread regularly for the past six months or so. I don’t use a bread machine, but rather my hands and an oven.

Pain a l'ancienne

Anadama Bread

I realized when we gave this assignment… it took me a while to really solidify what my other passion was. When asked what is your passion, my auto answer is photography. So being that
THISISAPHOTOBLOG and you’ve assigned us the task of identifying and creating an image of our OTHER PASSION ( assuming other then photography) I have to say I was stuck.

I thought of many things, my finance, my dog Walter, cooking, gardening ect.

Then we took a much needed mini vacation to Zion Utah (one of my most favorite places on earth) a few weekends ago & I got back on the rock for the first time since October and realized my other passion truly and with out a doubt is CLIMBING.

I’ve attached two pics of me climbing a 460+ ft route called “Lead by Sheep” in Zion Utah.

~ Keep on Rockin!
Jana

Obsession + Inspiration = my other passion

Beach volleyball is my other passion.

Just starting my second season of playing competitively. If I’m not shooting or editing, then I’m at the beach playing or training. In fact, I just came from the beach and I’m pretty sure I still have sand in my hair.

Life is good.

(My coach, Steven Ijams, was kind enough to be my subject. He’s a badass. Thanks Steve!)

Jana shot Jermaine Dupri last month in Vegas for VEGAS Magazine. She had a great time with him and it really shows in the photos! Check out the tear sheet below! Please click on the image to jump to her blog post with outtakes and fun info about the shoot.

Tamar has photos out this month in both Nylon and Nylon Guys! Go to your local newsstand, book store, or 711 to buy a copy.

Please click on the images to check out the enlarged tear sheets plus the outtakes on her photo blog!

Dum Dum Girls for Nylon:

Kelsey Brooks for Nylon Guys:

Andrea LaBarge Mills has once again taken the reigns as Photo Editor for Ragged Magazine, a collaboration between our friends at Filter and American Rag clothing (Macy’s). Her shoots for this latest issue include OK Go and Annie Stela.

Download the entire issue for free here.

I have way too many hobbies. But one that transcends hobby, and is more of a passion, is music. I’ve played in terrible punk bands since high school, and go to shows on a regular basis.

Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Coalesce play in NYC. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve seen them, and I brought my trusty point and shoot, loaded with slide film.

curly red hair

Weightlifting!!! We had a bunch of gold painted weights left over from a shoot I just shot so I did a little set up with my assistant Zach pumping iron to some tunes.

Christopher Dibble has several pages in the Feb/March issue of Paper Magazine, including a photograph of actor Donald Glover.

Please click the image below to see all the tear sheets on his blog!

I love riding my bike! I didn’t ride all winter cause it was pretty chilly in NY but its finally warming up and the bike gets to come out again. This was shot this weekend in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The first shot is my bike and the other shot is Blake.