CON TEN TS
VOLUME XXXI
ISSUE 12
DECEMBER 2011
ON OUR COVER: A wedding portrait by Austin Gros, one of the Rising Stars of Wedding Photography
profiled this month. The gallery of Rising Star photographers’ work begins on page 29.
THIS PAGE: An image of driver Chris Hartnell in his front-engined dragster at Shakespeare
Country Raceway, photographed by Dom Romney. Romney discusses his decision to specialize in
photographing motor sports in “What’s Your Specialty” in PDNews, page 17.
17 PDNews
The director of Tokyo’s RING CUBE Gallery talks about
challenging Japan’s fine-art photography traditions;
Julie Platner’s story on the life and death of a suburban
neo-Nazi; photographer Dom Romney discusses his niche:
shooting motor sports.
B Y DAVID WALKER
PDN’S RISING STARS OF WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
29 GALLERY OF RISING STARS
FEATURE
52 City Guide: San Francisco
Photographers in the San Francisco market describe the pros
and cons of living and working in their city.
CREATE
66 Spotlight: The Fashion
Advertising Market Today
A Q&A with Giovanni Bianco, creative director
and founder of Studio 65.
INTERVIEW BY CONOR RISCH
70 Gap Tries to Regain Its Cool
Gap’s ad agency worked with style blog Cool Hunting to
hire a team of photographers to create fashion photos and
documentary-style video for a new branding effort.
BY DAVID WALKER
The winners’ gallery for The Scene, our new contest
celebrating event photography, begins on page 59.
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