Chicago singer Headshots

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Photographer John Gress created a series of Chicago singer headshots for Janvier Jones new album cover. The photoshoot started off with portraits on a gray background.

Chicago Portraits of R&B / Soul Artist Caleb Minter

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One of my favorite techniques is to use CTO filters (plastic gels that make neutral light look like old fashioned light bulbs) on my lights so that when I tell the camera to compensate for their warmth, the camera makes the rest of the world look blue.

Marcus Matteo’s new single ‘I don’t wanna go to work today’

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I worked together with Marcus Matteo to come up with his evocative album artwork for his new single ‘I don’t wanna go to work today.’ Most of it was his idea…. but my contribution was tweaking the pose and adding the keys. All in all Im really happy with the final results.

New video ‘Sincerely….Marcus Matteo’

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A short video I made introducing Chicago singer songwriter Marcus Matteo was just released prior to the upcoming release of ‘MPFREE,’ his first collection of original music. The video features the intro track to ‘MPFREE’ called ‘Sincerely……Marcus Matteo’, a short but sweet acapella number inviting you into the world of Marcus Matteo.