Collaboration is something that can be really beautiful, as these photographers are an example of. Collaboration can also lead to complete failure, but thats part of a worth while risk. I wanted to change up my normal focus of these posts and show fashion photography. I am constantly being told that I need to specialize in something…I need to be the best at splashing objects in water. Making fake ice cream look real. Fuck that. I do not want to be the guy everyone goes to if they need a splash, or beauty shot, or still life with fur in it. These two, they change and take chances, they constantly evolve. You have to dig into their body of work to see some of the really special moments.
Here is a great New Yorker article on them THE SHOOT
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Mert, 33, is Turkish; Marcus, 34, is Welsh. Mert is short and chubby; Marcus is tall and slim. Mert is jovial, with a husky laugh; Marcus is measured, with a mischievous grin. When they work, they take turns with the camera—sometimes snatching it from each other—and although Mert’s taste may incline a bit more toward campy glamour and Marcus’s more toward ironic cool, the results rarely, if ever, betray the dominance of one man’s aesthetic over the other’s. “When you’re looking at the film, you can’t tell which of them had the camera,” Grand said
