JEFF MARANO

John, Cheyne and Omar Photographed in Los Angeles october 2012. John was the top campaign Model for the Milan based desinger "Corneliani" from the late 80´s until the early 2000´s. You will also find him in Helmut Newtons Iconic Book! It was our first meeting since Munich 1990 when   Udo Landow "now the World Class Choreographer"  had just thrown a huge New Years Eve party. It was great to now photograph his strong presence!! He still has IT!!! Cheyne was great and looks so like a young Leonardo Di Caprio. Omar has got a body you will see later! He has done 9 fitness videos since  our first shoot in L.A. last january. Being half Arabic and myself  half Ethiopian we vibed and just went from there. He drove over to the scene (mentioned in my photography facebook page) as soon as John and i were robbed on the miracle mile to see if we were alright! Great guy!!

JEFF MARANO: KÖLN- "AUTUMN HIVER" / FASHION PORTRAIT EDITORIAL ... : Alexander, Don, Christian (East West) and Rafael (Kult) models were photographed in Köln july 2012 for this winter fashi...

Alexander, Don, Christian (East West) and Rafael (Kult) models were photographed in Köln july 2012 for this winter fashion portrait editorial by stylist Manuel Malverde. DSQUARED2, DRIES VAN NOTEN, NEIL BARRETT, PAUL SMITH, DIRK BIKKEMBERGS, ISSEY MIYAKE, MARTIN MARGIELA, ANN DEMEULLEMEISTER and Y-3. Great guys, professional and very easy to work with!!

   Raphael, Simon and Christian (EastWest Models) were photographed in Cologne this past august still with film , daylight and an old school medium format camera. I think Simon can pass for a Brazilian German mix even though he´s nur deutsch! All new comers and did quite well for their first shoots!! Very nice and polite guys!!! Simon was the last of the three to shoot with on aug.20th (my 30th year anniversary) being based in Europe!

Don photographed here in Paris this past july. Even on a cloudy day the Tuilleries are one of my favorite shooting spots! The clouds are great and you really feel the history here! Back in the 80´s and 90´s here in Paris i would sit  during my lunch break in between my defile (show) castings and plan on which castings were more important to go to due to having too many all at the same time.I nerver listened when the top of the paper read" PAS NOIR"  NO BLACKS to some of them! The head booker at KARIN models said i was arrogant for going on castings which weren´t for me but that´s not what "LANVIN" and "PIERRE BALMAIN" said! Once changing agencies over to ELITE with pascal and Isabel in 89 this agency put a stop to all that madness and PARIS WOULD BE PARIS the way we all know it with it´s marvelous arrogance full of Ambiance! Now as a photographer i always start my Paris shoots here and then move on around the city. You ...

Jean pierre photographed in Köln late july. Half Italian half french and super cool. This really isn´t his style but i just had to play around with his hair and pose him old school! Thanks to the reflector on this one as the light was pretty dim in this part of the location.

Pascal Bier "Arno DeJongs other half" photographed here in Amsterdam just weeks ago. This striking lad Knows the camera well! Very Professional "DeBookers" model and sweet as can be just like Arno!