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Chicago Trade Magazine Photography by Photographer John Gress

Trade Magazine Photography for Brickstreet Insights with Thresholds in Chicago

Trade magazine photography for Brickstreet Insights featuring nonprofit CEO Mark Ishaug of Thresholds.

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Chicago Photographer John Gress using a Photek Softlighter II Umbrella

The Photek Softlighter II Umbrella… the Best $115 You’ll Ever Spend

When I received a Photek Softlighter II for Christmas in 2015, it quickly became one of my most treasured tools. I first became aware of this miraculous modifier when I discovered my favorite photographer, Art Streiber’s work on Instagram and I noticed him using a ten sided umbrella while shooting Placido Domingo for Vanity Fair. I loved the way it looked and rather than just asking him in a comment what he was using, I went on a day long journey to find it and once I did I never looked back.

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Chicago magazine photographer portrait of Gilberto Soberanis

Positively Aware Magazine photoshoot in Chicago: Latinos and HIV issue

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.

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St. Louis Magazine Photography: Jayne Watson’s Earns The Joe Dey Award

St. Louis Magazine Photography: Last week the USGA hired me to travel to Greenbriar Hills Country Club in Kirkwood Missouri and do an environmental portrait photoshoot with golfer Jayne Watson, who the organization was given a life long achievement award.

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Chicago Magazine Photographer: Positively Aware’s Aging With HIV covershoot at Town Hall Apartments

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.

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