We are very proud and congratulate award-winning photographer and director Jared Leeds on winning 3rd place in the Corporate category of the 2023 APA Photo Awards. Jared won honors for his portraiture of workers he shot for UniFirst Corporation late last year. “I’m thrilled to be included among a bunch talented folks and great images.” We ditto that. See more of Jared’s work at his site and follow him @jleedsphoto for his latest updates.
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2023 APA Photo Award winner in the Corporate category.
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.
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.
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 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.
Invest in Doug Truppe Represents to build your brands. Stop by and see us at at LE BOOK CONNECTIONS in Los Angeles, March 16th, 2023, 10:30AM - 7:00 PM at NeueHouse Hollywood, 6121 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028.
We will be showcasing work from our award-winning photographers and directors with other leading brands, creative agencies and high-end decision makers. And please join us for Happy Hour at 5PM for more chat and creative mingling.
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We are proud to share a series of gorgeous images shot by photographer and director Scott Montgomery at The Damen Shipyard in Amsterdam and now profiled on the Workbook Weekly Community. A perfect balance of complementary warm and cool colors, the series captures industrial projects being built on a massive scale—everything from military vessels and tugboats to super yachts.
Scott told us that, “Walking underneath and around these massive ships, it’s still hard to imagine they float.” The portraits are Ukrainian workers who fled the Ukraine at the outbreak of war. Even with a language barrier, through body language and familiar gestures, everyone was able to work together. Scott brought to life the Damen work ethic of fellowship and to build a vessel for every purpose. See more of the Workbook promotion here. Follow @scott_mont for more updates.
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.
The sounds of energetic religious music can be heard as TOM HUSSEY walks from the parking lot towards the entrance of the New Life Full Gospel Community Church in Dallas, Texas. This church is a pillar of the community, serving as a place of worship and a symbol of hope for its congregants.
As the doors open, you are greeted by the members, dressed in their finest, swaying and swinging with all their hearts. The pews are filled with people of all ages, from young children to the elderly, all come together to worship and be uplifted.
The service begins with a passionate rendition of “Amazing Grace.” At this point, the pastor takes the pulpit, his voice rising as he delivers a message of hope, resilience and faith. His words are powerful, drawing the congregation into a deep sense of connection with each other.
Throughout the service, there is music, clapping and the sound of tambourines and the shaking of keys in celebration of their religious morning. As the service comes to a close, music again fills the church and spills into the parking lot. Members of the congregation slowly begin to leave, but the spirit of community and belonging stay with them.
For the people of the New Life Full Gospel Community Church, this is not just a Sunday morning ritual, it is a way of life. They are proud of their heritage, proud of their faith and proud of their church. See more of their story in pictures here. Follow @tomhusseyphotography for more new work. And follow us @dougtruppe for more news and updates.
TOM HUSSEY PHOTOGRAPHY takes us to Ireland to document a legendary brand. Historically distilleries in Ireland did not make Irish whiskey. Instead, they sold their new make whiskey spirit to whiskey bonders who blended, aged, bottled, and sold the finished product. That was the method for centuries until the 1930s collapse of the whiskey industry in Ireland.
Enter Louise McGuane, a twenty-year veteran of the international liquor industry and the daughter of farmers who had worked the land in western Ireland for generations — literally from a time before records were kept. Louise didn’t want to be a farmer. She did, however, want to find a way to reimagine her family’s farm. Thus, because of her, whiskey bonding was to once again thrive in County Clare.
As to the name of her whiskey, McGuane discovered there had been a very successful whiskey bonder named J.J. Corry working during the 1800s not three miles from her ancestral farm. She really liked the local history aspect, so J.J. Corry whiskey was reborn in 2012.
Louise built a Bonded Rackhouse on her farm — the only one of its kind in Ireland. To this she added a blending room and repurposed the farm’s 17th century farmhouse creating a wonderful tasting barn. Then she began sourcing spirit from all over Ireland and turning it into the fantastic whiskeys of current day J.J. Corry. J.J. Corry is a beautiful place making beautiful Irish whiskey in the old way. If you have a chance, do make it a point to visit. Sláinte!
See more images on the J.J. Corry story here. Follow us for more news and updates @dougtruppe.
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.
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.
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.
Tom documented the six-man football team of a small private high school near his home in Dallas, Texas. “I had never heard of the six-man game, as most people are familiar with the traditional 11-man game and came to it by a special connection,” he says. In six-man the scoring is high and the action is almost non-stop. The final score of the last game of this particular season was 85 to 86, with the Mighty Lakehill HS Warriors winning the contest. A lot of six-man football is played by small schools in small towns across Texas. The game helps schools with lower enrollments to enjoy the Friday night high school traditions common to Texas.
Tom photographed all of the home games and traveled to all the games away from home. He captured the entire experience, even riding on the school’s bus to and from the contest. “I will tell you riding back from a game over an hour away from home with sweaty teenage boys is quite the experience. It was really fun watching, talking and photographing them, the smell on that bus could peel the paint.” See more imagery from Tom’s Six-Man Football here and follow @tomhusseyphotography https://www.instagram.com/tomhusseyphotography/ for more updates and stories. Follow us here.
Photographer/director Peter Rodger is not afraid to go big. Mega Pan technology is the perfect complement to Peter’s award-winning, cinematic approach. Mega Pans are extremely high-resolution images that can be printed any size. Ranging from 500 – 1500 megapixels, there is no limit to what you can do with such high resolution to maximize brand content.
Mega Pans offer endless social and shareable applications and opportunities—a dream for all kinds of commissions and brands as a part of a more engaging social/web engagement strategy for entertainment venues, concerts, public gatherings, sporting events, festivals, trade shows—anything you can think of. High-resolution, printed to any size for online, websites, SM, building exteriors and interiors and retail outlets are just some of the ways to build and thrill audiences. Zoom into the imagery and Mega Pans reveal the sharpest, most intricate details, down to words, people in buildings, background and topography you might not notice.
It's epic storytelling in a very cool, natural execution for events, products and commissions. Click on Peter’s signature Mega Pans and see all of Peter’s latest work here. Follow @dougtruppe for more news and stories.
Click and Zoom into the image to go big and get spectacular detail.
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.
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.
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Kevin Steele chats with Becky Winters, Senior Director, Creative Group at Norwegian Cruise Line, about how he captured the essence and emotion of the Alaskan cruise lifestyle shoot that turned out to be a highlight of Becky’s career.
We hope you enjoy the sessions and would love to hear from you. If you are an industry creative and would like to participate, get your voice and ideas out there, feel free to contact us: hello@dougtruppe.com. Follow Kevin for more news and updates @kevsteele.
Kevin Steele talks with Becky Winters, Senior Director, Creative Group at NCL.
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.
Parenting is universal: We aspire to do everything we can right… and carry it heavy when it doesn’t work out that way.” This 22-second short is everything I love in working with kids and inspired by my daughters,” says Scott.
Production: Dad and daughter are talent, not related and just met, though you wouldn’t know it. “It helps for me working with kids to be in dad mode as much as director — to play with and surprise her. Kids on set don’t need to act, just the opportunity to be themselves through a reaction.” Scott wrote the script and recorded separately. Camera Talent: Ian Randolph and Irelynn Joy. Voice Talent: Thomas Copeland. “Keep It for Her” has also been featured on the Workbook Weekly News. See more work and follow Scott @scott_mont.
Click on the image below to see “Keep It for Her.”
