05/17/2012

Peter spends a day with Dayana Mendoza

Peter had photographed Dayana’s headshots in the past and this is the second time they’ve gotten together to shoot. Here are a few of the images captured.

05/16/2012

Reserved for Rondee gets a kickstart & I get the call to shoot this group portrait for them!

Shot taken for the article by Nell Alk at interviewmagazine.com.  I’ll be adding a BTS video of the shoot as well.

04/25/2012

Peter Hurley speaking at the first Google+ Photographer Conference!

Kelby Training is producing the first ever Google+ Photographer Conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on May 22-23. My “It’s All About the Jaw” blog post on Scott Kelby’s blog released on Feb 15th had a tremendous response and I’ve been fortunate enough to have Scott invite me to [...]

04/05/2012

NY TIMES exposes Peter’s 6 Tips for Better Portraits

I was totally psyched when Roy Furchgott called me to discuss doing this article.  I think Roy really hit the nail on the head with his take on these tips, so keep them in mind for your next photo shoot!  You can see the article on the Gadgetwise NY Times blog here:  6 Tips for [...]

04/05/2012

Can my failed reality show attempt help my buddy build his foundation? I sure hope so.

In Jan ’09 I shot a teaser to pitch “Focus”, a reality series about my studio and the entire operation I was running at that time. Kevin Swan & Raffaello VanCouten of Cocktail Napkin Productions approached me with the idea and we decided to go for it. Unfortunately, it never got picked up and hasn’t [...]

02/29/2012

Peter photographs Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michel Kouakou for The Vilcek Foundation

Mikhail Baryshnikov has been awarded the 2012 Vilcek Prize for the Arts-Dance and Michel Kouakou has been awarded the 2012 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in dance. Peter was fortunate enough to be able to photograph them on February 3, 2012 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York for The Vilcek Foundation. For more [...]