Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Michele Laurita Photography

www.Michelelaurita.com

Fashion Photographer, Director of

Photography & Director.

Owner at Homemade Films Inc.

My love of the art form of Photography and

cinematography became so early on in my life, I can’t really remember any other career goal. I had a dark room printing color at age 8 with my father who was also a photographer hobbyist. I always loved the art house films as a kid, My Mother, who was an acting agent took me to all the great films. I was a child actor continuing acting into my early 30's. But I had this other thing tugging at me to be an artist behind the camera. I knew this because whenever I was working on a set as an actor, I wanted to hang out with the DP or camera crew more than the other actors. I would converse with them and ask so many questions, it was my love. Going to the cinema and seeing films like, "Raise the Red Lantern" and "2001 a Space Odyssey", "Apocalypse Now" or films by Kurosawa, to name a few, was my obsession. I think those films and their genius stay with me. It is my greatest desire to always "see" things and put them into the physical form as an artist, to transport the viewer, somehow to this beautiful world of Photography and what it can do.

https://www.instagram.com/michelelaurita/

SKILLS

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

CINEMATOGRAPHY

DIRECTING

CREATIVE DIRECTION

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY

STUDIO LIGHTING

LIGHTING

FILM PRODUCTION

LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY

EDITORIAL

VIDEO PRODUCTION

PHOTOJOURNALISM

STILL LIFE

ARCHITECHTURAL

COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

BEAUTY

RETOUCHING

COLOR GRADING / LUT DESIGN

WORK FEATURED IN:

HARPER’S BAZAAR

ROLLING STONE

TRAVEL & LEISURE

MARIE CLAIRE

VOGUE LATIN AMERICA

L’OFFICIEL

GQ & GQ STYLE

VANITY FAIR

BRITISH TATLER

VOGUE SPOSA

VOGUE ITALIA

GLAMOUR ITALIA

INTERVIEW

WALLPAPER

MAXIM

BON APPETIT

SORBET

SCHON

ELLE

WWD

EXPERIENCE

Homemade Films Inc.

Feb 1989 - Present ·32 years 11 months

Los Angeles California.

Fashion Photographer, Director, Director of Photography Unions: S.A.G & A.F.T.R.A.

Michele Laurita Photography & Homemade Films

Owner

Feb 1989 - Present · 32 yrs 11 months Feb 1989 - Present · 32 yrs 11 months

Productions for HBO, AMBLIN, 20th Century Fox, Bally Handbags, Dolce & Gabbana, Maverick Records, Warner Brothers Music, MTV,, Steven Speilberg SKG.

Music Video production and commercial production. As well as create visual imagery for the concert tours such as Alanis Morrisette, The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran Broadway show, No Doubt, & Matchbox 20. Comedy tour for Ellen DeGeneres for HBO "American Summer".

Directed numerous Videos for Alanis Morrissette “Head over Feet” “You Live you learn”. Documentary “Jagged Little Pill Live”. Was creative visual documentarian for current HBO film “Music Box”- Jagged.

Michele Laurita Photography

Owner

1986 - Present · 36 yrs

www.Michelelaurita.com

Owner

Self-employed

Jan 1985 - Present · 37 yrs

Education

Global Cinemagraphic Institute

Advanced Cinematography Lighting and Technologies -2017 Michele Has completed and graduated from the Global Cinematographic Institute under the guidance of Academy Award winning Director of Photography Vilmos Zigmond and Yuri Neyman. She completed her studies and is about to CLIENTS:

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE

KYLIE & KENDALL

SAINT LAURENT

20TH CENTURY FOX

MAVERICK RECORDS

WARNER BROTHERS

LOUIS VUITTON

CAPITOL RECORDS

BALLY HANDBAGS

KAPPA ATHELEISURE

LEVI’S

FRUIT OF THE LOOM

NEUTROGENA

ELECTRA RECORDS

WEIDEN & KENNEDY

TARGET

SEPHORA / URBAN DECAY

JAGUAR

MTV NETWORKS

DREAMWORKS SKG.

LEVEL SHOES

RICHARD TYLER

PAUL SMITH SPECTACELS

SIMON & SCHUSTER

MACY’S

NEIMAN MARCUS

AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT

HALLIBURTON LUGGAGE

approach her next degree of studies at the summer session of GCI.

Licenses & Certification

Graduate of the Global Cinematographic Institute

Volunteer

Santa Teresita Convent

May 2013 - 8 months

I love spending time with the sisters. I enjoy their beautiful insight and they inspire me to be light and give my time. Adjunct Professor of Fashion Photography & Lighting theory Art Center College of Design

January through April 2022 Spring Session

Notable Photography / Director of Photography / Direction / Publications

1987 shoots first professional job/Album Cover for Rock Band INXS all 12’ Singles for the album “KICK”.

1996 Shoots as Director of Photography with Martin Coppen ALANIS MORRISSETTE video “YOU OUTA KNOW”

video.

1996 joins 18-month Rock tour as full and only documentarian for ALANIS MORRISETTE’S “JAGGED LITTLE PILL

TOUR”

1996 Shoots first Cover of ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

with ALANIS MORRISSETTE.

1997 Directs 2 Videos for MTV for ALANIS

MORRISSETTE “HEAD OVER FEET” & “YOU LIVE

YOU LEARN”. Director of Photography for “JAGGED

LITTLE PILL LIVE” documentary for HBO.

1994 thru 2001 creates all Visual imagery for the concert tours THE CRANBERRIES, THE ROLLING STONES, 98

DEGREES, NO DOUBT, ALANIS MORRISSETTE, ROB

ZOMBIE & MATCHBOX 20.

1999 shoots LEVI’S Campaign. Requested first All-female Crew.

1999 thru 2001 Shoots for numerous Eyewear Fashion Campaigns with OLIVER PEOPLES, RICHARD TYLER,

PAUL SMITH SPECTACLES.

1999 to 2016 Main contributing Photographer for FADE-IN MAGAZINE. Celebrity Portraiture and Fashion.

2002 Creates Photographic images projected in the STEVEN SPEILBERG film ‘MINORITY REPORT” Working in

tandem with Lighting designer MARK BRICKMAN.

2001 shoots as Director of Photography comedy Tour of Comedian ELLEN DEGENERES for HBO.

2018 to 2019 works on LOUIS VUITTON & SAINT

LAURENT advertorials commissioned by design houses for SORBET. Also, Continuing as a contributing Photographer for Fashion.

2015 shoots first cover of GQ International & Russia. 2007 thru 2018 One of the contributing Photographers for Russian GQ & GQ STYLE Magazine.

2018 to 2019 Directs and is Director of Photography for 7 Commercial

Fashion films for LEVEL SHOES Department stores. In store and billboards/ Dubai.

2019 to present Contributing Fashion Photography and director of Photography for SCHON MAGAZINE.

2011 Shoots clothing Campaign for TARGET collaboration in with GWEN STEPHANI, HARAJUKU line.

2022 Is creative consultant for all photography/ cinematography and documentarian for HBO “MUSIC BOX/ JAGGED”

Airing currently on HBO Max.

Awards

In this regard, it has always been my feeling that an award or accolade, especially of the fiscal nature is not of interest to me. I truly feel that receiving an award for a creative endeavor doesn’t correlate to its artistic standing, or its importance. Art that we create is very personal and self-driven by factors that somehow to me, seem out of place judging them by a merit it receives, and, in this feeling, I never have answered to the call of putting work up for awards. Respectfully.

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