Roof Love Created by Jared Leeds for Owens Corning

When it comes to roofing, Owens Corning is a trusted name in the industry. So it makes perfect sense for them to put their trust in award-winning photographer and director Jared Leeds to present the latest roofing options for the perfect look to last. You are the envy of the neighborhood—or as we like to say you may be the cause of roof gawking when you choose Owens Corning.

Jared directed a spot and shot three print ads with two more to drop in the months to come. And talk about a quick turnaround, he shot in Atlanta this past May and the ads are already running in the current issue of HGTV Magazine. The spot is currently running on streaming services Hulu, Disney+ and HGTV and will appear during the Las Vegas Bowl.

Jared loves what he does and is grateful to be able to work with client Owens Corning and the hardworking people at Interrupt Marketing. Special thanks to Executive Creative Director Anita Holman, Creative Director Chris Graver, Producer Lisa Wagenbach, DP Heather McGrath and to Jared’s talented production team who all helped to make this a dream job. See even more work and stories at Jared’s site and follow him @jleedsphoto  for his latest updates.

Owens Corning Roof Gawking Streaming Spot

The look you want. Print ad campaign for Owens Corning Roof Gawking

We Celebrate National Photography Month

It’s the lovely month of May, and we want to celebrate our photographers and all photographers who continue to create stunning imagery, make an impact and touch the intangible. Thank you to all for your remarkable work.

Tom Hussey Photography Captures the Heart and Soul of Frost Bank in New Campaign

Award-winning commercial and advertising photography studio Tom Hussey Photography recently completed a new multifaceted campaign with Frost Bank. Shot on location, Tom features Frost Bank employees and their commitment to the bank’s customer service and community involvement. Tom and his team spent several days on location in the offices, capturing candid moments of the bank employees working and supporting clients and one another. The resulting images capture the heart and soul of Frost Bank, its employees and how they care for customers. "We wanted to create a campaign that really showcased the personal touch that Frost Bank brings to its customers," says Tom. "By photographing real employees in real-life situations, we were able to capture the authentic moments that make Frost Bank special."

The campaign is out now in print, digital materials, billboards, online ads and social media content. Each image is accompanied by a tagline that reinforces Frost Bank's core values of integrity, people first, talent, grit and gumption. See more of Tom’s latest work @tomhusseyphotography and at his site.

Claudio Napolitano Presents "Misused Objects" for National Child Abuse Month

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.  We are so proud to present this latest project from Claudio Napolitano. “Misused Objects” shows the children’s P.O.V. on common objects that should be just that, and at the same time how scary they are when used for violence. One out of three child-abuse cases reported in the U.S. involves a common object. We can help stop that. The campaign is a commitment to the prevention of child abuse and neglect by valuing children, strengthening families and educating communities. Thanks to @amigosforkids to @republicahavas for trusting Claudio with this powerful, bilingual campaign in English and Spanish. It is now being promoted on Ads of the World, Roastbrief US, AdLatina, Ads of Brands and Little Black Book USA.

See more of Claudio’s fascinating work @claudionapolitano .

Jared Leeds Is Always In Motion

Jared Leeds did an inspiring interview with @KellyMcMurray, founder of  2communiqué, about his addition of directing into the creative workflow. Now with the rapid onset of AI, we all must grapple with new challenges and think about how to move forward, explore and build on the power of imagination without fear.

Read the article here. See more new work @jleedspjhoto.

Scott Montgommery Gets Seriously Funny for CHG Healthcare Campaign

Scott Montgomery shot a super fun project for CHG Healthcare, a national medical-staffing agency. Scott’s campaign focused on high-end specialists as surgeons and hospital doctors. Shot in Minneapolis, he directed the motion spot and covered key scenes with stills. It was a fun and fast-paced two-day production lead by Producer Tanya Silver. Other creatives on the campaign included:  Kenton McRae, Jeremy Oviatt and Nate Anderson. See the images and watch how Scott makes health and wellness funny and the best medicine of all here. See more work at his site and follow Scott for new updates  @scott_mont.

Click on the images below to see CHG Healthcare in action.

Tom Hussey Welcomes You to the Goodness Hotel for Avocados from Mexico

The world is about to get better, especially in this Super Bowl season where great guacamole flavor comes out on top. Tom Hussey scores big with his latest promotion for Avocados from Mexico (AFM) for the Ultimate Big Game. Tom shot a multi-faceted campaign of print, video spots, digital and in store promotion with football legend Deion Sanders and his fiancée, award-winning TV and film producer Tracey Edmonds. 

Welcome to the Goodness Hotel is an integrated approach combining the AFM brand with data, innovative technology and vibrant visuals in a digital hotel space to celebrate the Big Game. The power couple share their favorite “Always Good” guacamole recipes in the colorful lobby spaces and fans can interact to win big prizes. Enter a Goodies Shop with an exclusive big game swag, a Genius Music Lab to create your own jam, an Elevator to explore rooms and activities, and a “Say Avocado” station where you can snap a selfie to share with friends. Get ready and get your guac and football here. Follow @tomhusseyphotography for more new work. Follow us for news and updates @dougtruppe.

Deion Sanders and Tracey Edmonds Press Release for Avocados from Mexico.

Claudio Napolitano Honored By 17th Annual Black & White Spider Awards

“Lurking,”Claudio Napolitano’s black-and-white portrait of a Cuban boxer has been nominated in the 17th Annual Spider Awards in the sports category. Claudio loves to push the envelope, striving to create images that tell unforeseen stories. His motto, “If there is no work, then you have to create it for yourself,” propels him to seek out opportunities in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America and the results are always visionary and award-winning. See more at his site claudionapolitano.com Follow us @DougTruppe for more new work and news.

“Lurking,” nominated in the Sports Category of the 17th annual Spider Awards.

Scott Montgomery Strikes a Nerve with The Reader

We are proud to present Scott Montgomery’s personal project The Reader, recently featured in the Workbook Weekly, the place to see great work. It is beautifully crafted storytelling using motion and imagery,

Tired of scrolling and binging watching during the first Covid wave that gripped New York City during the winter of 2020, photographer/director Scott began reading to his wife one evening in bed.  The sense of intimacy it created transformed them, and for Scott it was the inspiration for the story that he wanted to tell.

He began with a simple story line about a young woman living in Brooklyn.  She and her boyfriend love books and read to each other as a way to decompress after work.  She wants to share this experience with others and decides she can build a side hustle: a personal reading service. People respond.

Scott began casting in the spring of 2021 but complications due to Covid brought shooting to a halt. But in the Spring of 2022 he met Jenna, an ICU nurse who had worked throughout the pandemic in NYC. She embodied all the  traits of the character he called The Reader. And coincidentally, in real life, her boyfriend would read to her to calm her down after a particularly difficult shift. Scott now had the full narrative.

Scott shot both stills and motion and the blending of the two plays to his strength as a storyteller. As he told us, “…For a long time I’ve lit still scenes with a gaffer using motion continuous light. It’s rounder and softer than strobe and I prefer the look. Only gear change is camera. Second, I’m my own DP for main camera. Seamless continuity from stills to motion. Third, narrative story is my natural voice.  My stills have always resembled a moment pulled from a movie…. now they link together to make mini-movies.”

“Researching the subject, I expected to find a focus on kids or the elderly.  I was wrong. Reader clubs exist! Better yet, as we’ve started to show the piece, person after person has messaged and shared a story. We struck a nerve – The gift of reading out loud,” says Scott. See the Workbook promotion here. Find more updates and follow Scott @scott_mont

Click on the Images below to view The Reader and accompanying images.

The Reader motion and stills.

The Reader motion and stills.

Comerica Banks on Equal Opportunity with Tom Hussey Print Ads and TV Spots

Equal opportunity with equal access.  Photographer and director Tom Hussey adapts the theme of access and greater awareness to a  series of  :30 TV spots  and  accompanying print campaign he created  with Occam Marketing for client Comerica Bank. Both client and agency wanted Tom  because of his  own  strong feelings about ethical standards in the workplace.  “We at TOM HUSSEY Photography feel strongly about people being treated fairly and as equals which made bringing this project to life even more rewarding,” he says.

A  big theme with a lot to cover, Tom  shot and coordinated 14 different talent in 14 different locations to create a seamless campaign in just three days. Each face is a story  of pride, goals achieved and empowerment.

The Comerica Bank TV spots and  print ads can be seen in the Dallas area and then head to national markets. See new  work  and follow Tom  @tomhusseyphotography. Follow us for daily updates @dougtruppe.

Click on Comerica Bank TV Spot Below.

Comerica Bank TV spot. Click on the image above.

Comerica Bank print campaign.

Comerica Bank print campaign.

Comerica Bank print campaign.

We're On the Road with Tom Hussey: At the Dog Show

Everyone thinks they have the best dog and none of them are wrong. Tom was driving back to the studio after purchasing a new camera. He passed a large convention center in Dallas and noticed the marquee said “Dog Show.” Being adventurous, he decided to give his new camera some exercise and see what was going on. 

It was like walking onto the set of “Best in Show” but with the smells you don’t get watching a movie. Huge mounds of dog hair, some as much as three to four feet high filled the venue.  He created a promo booklet from the images made that day. The book is on the site as it was printed with wonderfully designed quotes on the images befitting the grandeur of man’s best friend.

See more images from the Dog Show here and follow @tomhusseyphotography to see new work. Follow @dougtruppe for more news and stories.

Trained and ready for the moment.

It’s the moment. to shine.

We’re on the Road with Tom Hussey: At the Dirt Racetrack Full Speed Friday Nights

Tom was on assignment for AAA. The job—travel by car within a defined territory to find “America” photographically. The images were to be used in decorating a new AAA headquarters. 

On the first day, after getting his bags and rental vehicle, he headed north from Minneapolis and stumbled on an oval dirt racetrack going full speed. It was a Friday night. “You could picture this track back in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Drivers with home-built cars and guys handy with screwdrivers and wrenches would show up at a dirt oval to see who was fastest,” he says. No big sponsors, no glass suites, just skill, passion, friends, family and the hope of a checkered flag. The final checkered flag falls over the finish line. Trophies and cold beer get shared as trailers are loaded. Lights go out and the hopes and plans for next Friday night’s chase start revving up. See more of the Racetrack images here and follow @tomhusseyphotography  for more updates . Follow @dougtruppe  for latest news and stories.

Scott Montgomery Wins for Lifestyle in APA Awards

We are very proud and congratulate Scott Montgomery on winning the Lifestyle category, 3rd place, in the 2022 APA Awards.  In his latest personal projects, Scott creates and authors  characters, their stories and then produces using the elements of narrative motion and stills to fit. “The work has to hold relationship. Our lives are deeper because of the people and places in them,” he says.

With the help of producer Janet Henderson, @zincproductions,  Scott found some outstanding locations along coastal Maine, creating more ideas for his script. Next was searching for talent. Scott found his perfect fit in Taylor. She became his active mid-career novelist living on an island in a house over 100 years old without power.  “I wanted to bring her mind’s words to life by dropping in as she’s writing,” says Scott.”  Crew, gear, wardrobe—everything  was  skiffed to the location, adding an authentic feel to the character and surroundings.

“I guide real people and pro talent to share a story (some real, some not). When it’s emotionally true, you feel it. We connect, that’s the good stuff.”  We couldn’t agree more. Follow and see more work @scott_mont. See more updates and news  @dougtruppe.

APA winning image for Lifestyle Category, 3rd place.

We’re on the Road with Tom Hussey: Triathlon Time Brings Addys

Tom was on a shoot for Epipen in Miami.  Ever the curious, he noticed a major event was being set up across the street from his hotel. It turned out to be a National Triathlon. 

He decided to get up early on the morning of the tech scout to see if there was a story to tell.  He walked into the event with three professional Nikons around his neck and people figured he was supposed to be there. “I talked with competitors and made images of the entire triathlon. The light was absolutely perfect, and I was able to create a fun new body of work,” says Tom. As he walked back into the hotel lobby, his client (CD) was getting a cup of coffee and asked what he had been doing. Tom showed her some of the images on the back of his cameras. There was enough for a promo and he asked her if she might be willing to design it for him. She agreed, and he mailed out around 3,000 of them. Tom entered the promo into the Addy awards and was thrilled to call his CD letting her know he had won a Silver Addy.  See more of Tom’s Triathlon images here . Follow @tomhusseyphotography to see more work. Follow us for more news and stories here.

National Triathlon Part 1: Swimming.

National Triathlon Part 1: Swimming.

National Triathlon Part 2: Cycling.

National Triathlon Part 2: Cycling.

National Triathlon Part 3: Running

National Triathlon Part 3: Running.

Doug Truppe’s Platform of Values: Passion - The Human Elements for Life and Work

Doug Truppe is on the road again and presents a unique approach to outstanding production that brings your storytelling  to life. “I live, work and make choices by these values with photographers, creatives, clients and everyone I meet.”  Doug’s values of Curiosity, Passion, Kindness, Truth and Integrity are part of  an ongoing series of presentations from our photographers and directors to the creative community. We present  the value of Passion— an energy, a compelling desire for someone, something, some place, some idea. Our passion is our purpose. We show it in every image we make with: @KevinArnoldPhoto, @ClaudioNapolitano  and @Scott_Mont   here.

New collaborations and new relationships  with values are the building blocks to great storytelling.

Click on Passion to see much more.

We're on the Road with Tom Hussey: Surfing USA

“If everybody had an ocean across the USA, then everybody’d be surfin’ like Californi-a.” Tom had an intern named Sarah who was from San Clemente, California and grew up surfing.  She told him how much she missed it and Tom, ever the adventurous, decided to go with her for a weekend to that surfing area to photograph some of her surfing friends and anyone else he met along the way.

He spent four days travelling from one beach to  another photographing people  he met, as well as Sarah and her friends. “We met a large family who made the trek to Southern California every year for a week-long surf vacation.  They would camp and ride the waves from sun up to sun down.” says Tom.  Many of the images are from the family, in particular the young woman with the board on her head, the older grey-bearded man smiling at the camera and the guitar-playing young man. It was a great trip and Sarah loved that her internship with Tom got to fly her home for a long weekend doing what she loved—surfing.  See more of Tom’s “Beach Boys and Gals” here and follow @tomhusseyphotography for more updates and stories. Follow us here for new work.

The Art of the Personal Project Profiles Kevin Arnold

Take a look at this fascinating piece on Kevin Arnold by APE contributor Suzanne Sease for “The Art of the Personal Project.”  Kevin’s fine art takes us to the stunning prehistoric landscapes of Tombstone Territorial Park in the Yukon Territory of Canada’s far north. Detailed aerial views present a vast, mysterious world that tells the story of how the land was and continues to form.  Read the column and view more of the project here. Follow Kevin @kevinarnoldphoto for more updates and stories and follow us on Instagram here.

We’re on the Road with Tom Hussey: Kaffie-Frederick, Inc. General Mercantile

On a road trip through Louisiana Tom Hussey came upon The Kaffie-Frederick. Inc. General Mercantile in a small town called Natchitoches (pronounced Nacatish). Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile is Louisiana's oldest general store, owned and operated by the same family since opening in 1863.  It is run by two brothers who are the great grandsons of the founder. Walking through Kaffie-Frederick is like stepping into a time warp.  It’s the sort of a place that used to be a common sight in most small towns and now has been replaced by big-box, home-improvement stores or online shopping.  

 The store features everything you remember from the "good old days"— hardware, housewares, cookware and kitchen supplies, classic toys (like Radio Flyer) and gifts. The original freight elevator still operates, and the 1910 cash register is not only in great condition but is used for every sale. Happy to say, shopping with old-world charm is out there if you look for it. See more of the Mercantile images here and follow @tomhusseyphotography for more updates and stories. Follow us here.

We're on the Road with Tom Hussey: Northern Lights

Northern Lights was a five-day project conceived with a love for all things handcrafted. Vermont has a great number of artisans working a craft that long ago was outsourced or taken over by machinery.  When  Tom started planning the trip it was referred to as a “Cheese Tour.”

Tom wanted to get to know and photograph the people raising the animals, making the cheese and taking it to the world market. As he was researching the cheese process, he discovered there were numerous other handcrafts produced in Vermont—thus the scope of the project expanded a bit.  He photographed six different cheese producers—loving every one for different reasons. He met other craftspeople as Calley Hastings, a wonderful woman using goat’s milk creatively to make  craft caramel in a rapidly growing business. He also discovered Timothy Clark Furniture—handcrafted incredible Windsor-style chairs and benches. White Room Custom Skis, owned by Vin Faraci, are custom fit to each person with gorgeous hardwood-laminated designs on the ski tops. Inspired by the journey, the people, their passion and the goods they create, Tom found hardy New Englanders are keeping the tradition of hand creation alive and well—even thriving. 

See more of Tom’s images for Northern Lights here and follow Tom @tomhusseyphotography for his latest stories and updates.

Tom Hussey Shoots Visionary Work for the New Drug XIPERE

Tom Hussey always captures eye-popping imagery, which works especially well for the branded promotion he recently shot for the new drug XIPERE. XIPERE treats Macular Edema associated with uveitis, a form of eye inflammation that affects the middle layer of tissue in the eye wall (uvea) when the immune system is fighting an infection.

To present the drug in a more entertaining light, Tom went over the top and did a nationwide casting call to find contortionists who could advertise the drug. In vibrant, colorful imagery, Tom captures bodies in action—bending, twisting and contorting themselves in shapes to mimic the structure of the ocular wall. It’s a visually elegant presentation targeting the efficacy of the drug in a natural and holistic way—easy on the eye you might say. The promotion is appearing now online at the XIPERE site and their Social Media. See more and follow Tom’s work @tomhusseyphotography.