Celebrity Portrait photography with Black Ink Crew Chicago’s Katrina Jackson
![Portrait photography of Katrina Jackson from VH1's Black Ink Crew Chicago](https://johngress.com/wp-content/uploads//2016/12/1200_17C9379-2-720x1027.jpg)
When it come’s to Instagram followers, aside from @BernieSanders, Katrina Jackson may be the biggest celebrity I have had the pleasure of photographing in recent years. That is if you don’t include professional athletes.
Chicago Beauty Photographer Headshots for Pivot Point
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I love working with Pivot Point International because every photoshoot provides me with an opportunity to work with great people and photograph beautiful models with perfect hair and beauty make-up… as you would expect from a client like this.
Positively Aware Magazine photoshoot in Chicago: Latinos and HIV issue
![Chicago magazine photographer portrait of Gilberto Soberanis](https://johngress.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/01/POSITIVELY-AWARE-SEP-OCT-2016-page-3-720x945.jpg)
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.
Chicago Magazine Photographer: Positively Aware’s Aging With HIV covershoot at Town Hall Apartments
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Chicago Magazine Photographer: My photoshoot for Positively Aware Magazine’s aging with HIV issue has been published. A group of seniors met us on location at the Town Hall Apartments, an LGBT senior housing community operated by the Center on Halsted.
Gabriel Ray with Chicago Singer Headshots Photographer
![Chicago Singer Headshots: I created a series of portraits for LA and Chicago singer Gabriel Ray to publicize his singles "Cater to You" & "Body Language."](https://johngress.com/wp-content/uploads//2016/05/17C7286-720x480.jpg)
Chicago Singer Headshots: I created a series of portraits for LA and Chicago singer Gabriel Ray to publicize his singles “Cater to You” & “Body Language.”