User:Erinkatz/Chloe Aftel

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Chloe Aftel is an American photographer and director based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, & New York.

Biography/Early Life[edit]

Aftel was born in Berkeley, California on July 6th, 1980.

Aftel has a Bachelor’s degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography and Film/Video Production from the University of Southern California.

After USC, Aftel managed a film production company in New York before running American photographer, Peggy Sirota’s studio in Los Angeles for two years before opening her own studio. [1]

Career[edit]

Style[edit]

Aftel has an individual style in fashion, commercial, editorial, lifestyle, among many other genres of work.[2]

Working with film, polaroid,

Cinemagraphs

Clients[edit]

Aftel has shot editorials for Billboard, Chicago Tribune, Dwell, Elle The Hollywood Reporter, Harper's Bazaar Australia, Latina, Marie Claire, New York Magazine/In The Cut, Nylon, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italy, Vogue Russia, Wired, Wall Street Journal


Aftel’s commercial clients include Cannon, Levi’s, Google, Pact, Intuit, MasterCard, Verizon, Sprint, Motorola, Neiman-Marcus, Nintendo,

4AD, Ban.do, Bust,, Dazed & Confused, Draft FCB, Enso, Fleishman-Hillard, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, Interscope, Intuit,, Lula,, McCann, Merge Records, O'Neill, Pact, R/GA, Rubin Postaer and Associates, Seaworld, Siegel + Gale, Subpop Records,

Personal Projects[edit]

Genderqueer Aftel's project introduces viewers to the real faces and stories of gender fluid, bi-gender and agender teens and adults.[3]


Awards[edit]

Aftel has won awards for her photography and short film including International Photography Awards, Fuji Student Photographer of the Year, American Photo, PDN 30, and Boston International Film Festival.[4]


References[edit]

  1. ^ Noble, Lou. "Interview 022 - Chloe Aftel". The Photographic Journal. Retrieved July 27th 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ Goodsell, Jamie. "PHOTOGRAPHY INTERVIEW • CHLOE AFTEL". Jamie Goodsell Photography. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  3. ^ Brooks, Katherine. "Profound Portraits Of Young Agender Individuals Challenge The Male/Female Identity". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  4. ^ Aftel, Chloe. "About". Chloe Aftel Studio. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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