Dr. Mehmet Oz Photographs

December 23rd, 2009
Dr. Mehmet Oz

Dr. Mehmet Oz

Dr. Oz is vice-chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and healthcare policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters and medical books and has received several patents.

Lisa and Dr.Mehmet Oz

Lisa and Dr.Mehmet Oz

Lisa Oz is a producer, writer, actress, and frequent co-host of The Dr. Oz Show on Oprah & Friends’ XM radio telecast. Lisa has co-authored three New York Times best selling books, including the “YOU: The Owner’s Manual” series.She is President of Ozworks LLC, a media and investment consulting company that she founded, and directs Pine Room Pictures, a production company specializing in family friendly media.

Karen Molnar Choreographer Photos

December 23rd, 2009

Dance PhotographerKaren Molnar’s Choreography Credits include FILM: Italian Lessons. OFF-BROADWAY: Space Trek; A Musical Parody, Sea Fever, What Would Esther Williams Do… REGIONAL: A Chorus Line, Crazy For You, West Side Story, Pippin, Grease, Guys And Dolls, Hello Dolly, etc. COLLEGIATE: Merrily We Roll Along at Yale University. Some of her acting credits are FILM and TV: Guiding Light, One Life To Live, Sex And The City, For Richer Or Poorer, Step Mom, The Astronaut’s Wife. THEATRE: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Bye Bye Birdie (Rosie), Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney), West Side Story (Anita), A Chorus Line (Kristine), the European Tour of On The Town (Flossie/Dance Capt.), the National Tour of Wizard Of Oz (Glinda), and the Off-Broadway revival of Irene.

Sandler O'Neill Photo Shoot for Website and Printed Material

December 8th, 2009

Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. (”SOP”) is a New York City-based investment banking firm. It was founded by Thomas F. O’Neill and Herman S. Sandler in 1988. Located on the 104th floor of Two World Trade Center, it lost 68 of 177 employees in the September 11, 2001 attacks, including chief executive and co-founder Herman Sandler. Only 17 of SOP’s World Trade Center employees escaped the tower’s destruction.The company lost its entire computer system in the destruction. However, by 17 September 2001 the company announced it was open for business, operating from two locations. One space was donated by Bank of America Securities, and the other was Sandler O’Neill Asset Management’s office. By 22 October the company had secured a new headquarters location in Manhattan, and had hired 13 new employees. SOP maintains offices in New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Sandler O’Neill Mortgage Finance L.P. has offices in New York and Memphis.

Madcap shoot with WENDY WILLIAMS

December 8th, 2009


Wendy Williams, one of radio’s most popular personalities, is expanding her already impressive empire to the world of television, with the launch of The Wendy Williams Show in national syndication on July 13, 2009, after a successful six-week preview in the summer of 2008. A mother and wife with a tremendously successful career as an author and radio host, Williams first made a name for herself by using her “big mouth” on the radio where she spent more than 20 years, 16 of them spent on the air in New York City, winning over legions of fans.Gift of Gab?

Headshot Photographers Blog

November 15th, 2009

Michael Benabib is a New York Headshot Photographer.
Here you will find a running account of some of my favorite images from recent shoots.

Vivian Schiller NPR CEO Shoot

November 14th, 2009

Vivian Schiller CEO National Public Radio

Vivian Schiller CEO National Public Radio

Vivian Schiller made headlines last fall when it was announced she would be leaving her post at NYTimes.com — where she’d led the team responsible for the Times‘ much-admired Web overhaul — to become president and CEO of NPR.  I am thrilled to have met her. I could live without television but could not without NPR. WNYC has interesting intelligent programing that i find so interesting that if i miss it during the day I will stream it at night. We had a nice interaction and I look forward to working with her again.

Stephen Dubner, nerd rock star.

November 12th, 2009

Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. He is the co-author, with Steven D. Levitt, ofFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. He is also the author of Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son’s Return to His Jewish Family(1998), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper(2003), and a children’s book, The Boy With Two Belly Buttons (2007).

Freakonomics, published in April 2005, instantly became an international best-seller, with more than 1.5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone. It won the inaugural Quill Award for best business book; was short-listed for the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award; received a Visionary Award from the National Council on Economic Education; is a BookSense Book of the Year; and was named a Notable Book of 2005 by the New York Times.Turbulent Souls was also named a Notable Book, and was a finalist for the Koret National Jewish Book Award. Turbulent Souls is being reissued in late 2006 under a new title, Choosing My Religion.

BOOK Jacket Photos

Author Photos

Barron Hilton for Hilton Hotels

November 12th, 2009

William Barron Hilton co-chair Hilton Hotels. I shot this photo at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Ave. I had shot Molly Ringwald there a number of years ago.

The presidential suite is indeed presidential since it is where POTUS actually stays when in town.

Apparently Mr Hilton, Paris Hiltons’ Grandfather is giving his fortune to charity. Hilton’s fortune will go to his family’s foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, which works to alleviate the suffering of the world’s most disadvantaged, with an emphasis on children and support for the work of Roman Catholic nuns. Grants go to causes such as stopping trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness in Africa; helping homeless families in the U.S.; and providing clean water in Mexico.

Corporate Headshots NYC
Barron Hilton for Hilton Hotels Corp.

More Book Cover Photography

November 10th, 2009

I got hired by the senior designer at Knopf Delacorte Dell Books to shoot a book cover for GLOVES OFF by Susan McBride. Fun concept of a debutante taking off her gloves. I received an education in formalwear at the famous retailer Klienfeld Manhattan. We went to Klienfelds, which carries the largest selection of couture wedding dresses, designer exclusives, eveningwear. I found THE glove shop just 2 blocks from the studio, LaCrasia.com The guy who runs the place I see all the time walking his dog. For some reason he and my dog Luke are mortal enemies.

GLOVES OFF book cover

Book cover for GLOVES OFF by Susan McBride

November 10th, 2009

gloves-off-lo-resI got hired by the senior designer at Knopf Delacorte Dell Books to shoot the cover of

GLOVES OFF by Susan McBride

GLOVES OFF book cover

Fun concept of a debutante taking off her gloves. I found THE glove shop just 2 blocks from the studio. The guy who runs the place I see all the time walking his dog. For some reason he and my dog Luke are mortal enemies.