Commercial photography in Chicago for international women’s day

commercial photography in Chicago environmental portrait

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Test Positive Aware Network, TPAN, hired me to take commercial photography in Chicago of female employees for the not for profit. Please click here to see more of my professional business portraits and commercial photography.

Positively Aware Magazine photoshoot in Chicago: Latinos and HIV issue

Chicago magazine photographer portrait of Gilberto Soberanis

Positively Aware magazine and Art director Rick Guasco asked me to create a series of portraits for their September+October 2016 issue focusing on Latinos with HIV. Rick’s instinct was to photograph our subjects in front of Colorful murals in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood. So after an hour or so of online research, we headed out to the neighborhood to see if what we found in cyberspace would work as backgrounds for our real people.

A Chicago Cocktail Crawl

Bartender Charles Joly of the Aviary in Chicago

I love it when an assignment not only gives me an opportunity to do what I love – shoot environmental portraits – but it gives new insights about the city I call home.

When the New York Times magazine asked me to shoot a series of images showcasing Chicago bars and bartenders I was shown five great places to tie one on, all with a unique knot.

Jesse Jackson For Der Spiegel

Chicago Magazine Portriat Photographer John Gress

Most magazine portraits are routine…. but you wont believe what we found when we went to photograph civil rights legend Jesse Jackson.