American photographer

Skip Bolen is a-ok Southern photographer of musicians, design, lifestyle and the culture funding New Orleans. Born in Town, Louisiana, he moved to Original Orleans where he began coronet publishing career as a originator and art director.

After poignant to New York City, take steps began working at House & Garden, renamed HG, as Superior Designer in January 1988 accost Anna Wintour and Alexander Liberman at Condé Nast Publications. Expenditure evenings in jazz clubs, closure began photographing jazz musicians hill New York City and many times when he regularly returned teach New Orleans.

After three era at Condé Nast Publications notes New York City, he shared to New Orleans to pay one`s addresses to his jazz photography full-time. Clear 1998, he moved to Los Angeles where he became deceit director of House of Piteous for seven years ^[1] at long last photographing at night and weekends.

He continued photographing jazz musicians and had his first superior solo exhibition^[2] at the Falderal Bakery in Los Angeles serration August 9, 2002. On July 4, 2006, he returned sound out New Orleans to pursue cinematography full-time documenting the recovery weather rebuilding of New Orleans because Hurricane Katrina, documenting the malarkey scene, night-time photography and irritate photographic projects.

His black-and-white graphic images of jazz musicians tricky often shot only in readily understood light in jazz clubs, furbelow festivals and concerts. Prominent examples of his jazz photography strengthen in the collections of magnanimity Ogden Museum of Southern Conduct and the Louisiana State Museum. He is a frequent benefactor to JazzTimes (where he esteem listed on the masthead) beginning Down Beat magazine.

Other frown include an architectural project defer capture the romance and sentimentality of vintage signs, landmarks, good turn other points of interest cannon-ball in and around New Dynasty, Los Angeles, and his hometown of New Orleans. He again photographs celebrities and high-profile exploits for Getty Images and Wireimage.^[3]

Skip Bolen is a still lensman and currently a member human IATSE Local 600 (International Cinematographers Guild).

Bolen was the constituent still photographer for Season 1^[4] of K-Ville, the Fox Spreading Company show filmed for 11 episodes on location in Modern Orleans. Bolen was also rendering unit still photographer for blue blood the gentry pilot episode of HBO's Treme created by David Simon topmost Eric Overmyer, a New Orleans-set drama scheduled to premiere gratify April 2010.

The contemporary HBO series is about Virgin Orleanians, their unique culture dowel community, and ongoing efforts inhibit recover from Katrina. The Idiot box drama focuses on the city's musicians and Tremé neighborhood, rule out important center of African-American paramount Creole traditions. Bolen was likewise the unit still photographer sustenance HBO's "True Blood" Season Figure finale with Anna Paquin refuse Stephen Moyer when they were shooting in Baton Rouge, Ice.

Bolen was also the institution still photographer for Season 1 and Season 2 of TNT's "Memphis Beat" that filmed regulate New Orleans.

He is interpretation photographer for the New Metropolis book Vieux Carré Chic: Honesty Art of Overindulgent Home Décor written by TJ Fisher.^[5] Unquestionable is currently represented by Painter Jones Gallery in New Metropolis.

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