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Style-Makers Portraits | Luxe Magazine

April 4, 2019 by Sonya Revell

For the past four years or so I’ve had the great pleasure of being a regular contributing photographer to Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine. The section that I regularly photograph is called ‘Style-Makers’. The article features a 4-6 page spread, highlighting the work of a local artist, designer, gallerist, or artisan. The assignment always includes capturing an environmental portrait of the subject, along with reportage-style coverage of their studio, artistic process, and materials. Recently, I was interviewed by Wonderful Machine […]

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First Photo Shoot of 2019

January 14, 2019 by Sonya Revell

Within the first week of each year, I like to kick things off by photographing a self-assigned photo shoot for my portfolio. For 2019, I was finally able to pull together a photo shoot that I’ve been wanting to do for several years now. A while back I dreamt up the idea of photographing a story of a 1960s housewife. Since I live in a mid-century modern condo building in Miami, I didn’t have to look far for the ideal […]

Categories: Conceptual photography, conceptual portrait, editorial, editorial portrait, Queef Latina, Self Assignment, Uncategorized • Tags: 1960s, 1960s fashion, bearded lady, conceptual photographer, conceptual portrait, drag, drag fashion, drag mother, drag photography, drag queen, hairy drag, Housewife, humor photography, miami, Miami housewife, miami photographer, portrait photographer, Queef Latina, sonya revell photography, vintage fashion

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Portrait of Mia Nygren | Billboard Magazine

January 3, 2019 by Sonya Revell

Have you ever had one of those moments when you realize you’re living out a childhood fantasy? As a music fan, this assignment was one of those for me. In fact, if someone had told my 16-year-old self that I would photograph for Billboard Magazine, I would probably have fainted from excitement. So when the photo editor from Billboard reached out about a portrait assignment, I was pretty elated. My subject: Mia Nygren, managing director of Latin America for […]

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GoFundMe Heroes Campaign

November 18, 2018 by Sonya Revell

For the GoFundMe Heroes Campaign, I had the honor of photographing Luis Garcia, a retired paramedic, and firefighter who spent $40K of his own savings on Narcan. While attending and documenting his class, which is free to the public, I learned a lot about this life-saving Nasal spray that can literally bring people back from the dead after an opioid overdose. (I even received my own dose, which I hope to never have to use.) After Luis’ class, we had […]

Categories: documentary photography, GoFundMe Heroes, Portrait photography, Portraiture, Reportage Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: Boynton Beach, documentary photography, environmental portraits, florida, GoFundMe Heroes, Luis Garcia, miami photographer, Narcan, opioid epidemic, opioid overdose, portrait photography, Portraiture, Reportage Photography, Save a Life, South Florida photographer, West Palm Beach photographer

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Portraits of Phillip Estlund | Luxe

October 24, 2018 by Sonya Revell

A while back I drove up to West Palm Beach to photograph artist, Phillip Estlund, for his ‘style-makers’ spread in Luxe Interiors + Design magazine. Phillip’s work is an interesting mix of furniture making- including wood-working and decoupage, and collage artwork. All of his work seems to have a fun, mid-century vibe, in which he often incorporates botanical images and illustrations, along with raw materials. I got to make some fun environmental portraits of Estlund at both his wood-working studio […]

Categories: environmental portraits, Florida, Home and Garden photography, Luxe Interiors + Design, maker portraits, Phillip Estlund, Uncategorized, West Palm Beach, FL • Tags: art, art studio, artisan portrait, artist portrait, design, editorial photography, editorial portrait, furniture making, Luxe, Luxe Interiors + Design, mid-century furniture, Phillip Estlund, portrait photography, Portraiture, sonya revell, South Florida photographer, West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach photographer, wood-working

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Portrait of Billy Corben | Time Out Miami

September 4, 2018 by Sonya Revell

Whether you live in Miami or not, you’re probably familiar with the city’s storied, drug-fueled past of the late 1970’s and early 80’s (hello Miami Vice). You may have even seen Cocaine Cowboys, a documentary film featuring first-hand accounts of the major drug trafficking and subsequent money laundering operations that took place in Miami during that time. This happens to be one of my all-time favorite documentary films, so when I got the assignment to photograph the film’s director (and local Miamian), […]

Categories: Billy Corben, editorial portrait, Environmental portrait, Miami photographer, Time Out Miami, Uncategorized • Tags: Billy Corben, candid portrait, celebrity portrait, Cocaine Cowboys, documentary film maker, editorial portrait, environmental portraiture, Florida photographer, miami beach, miami photographer, portrait photographer, Screwball documentary, sonya revell, Time Out Miami

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Men’s Style | Welcome to the Jungle

July 21, 2018 by Sonya Revell

TESTING, TESTING, 1.2.3…. It is truly a great thing that I get paid to create photography. But even if I didn’t- even if the whole ‘career’ thing never worked out, I’d definitely still be dressing people up and asking them to sit in front of my camera to have their picture taken. But as with many other things, my enthusiasm for the work comes and goes, so it’s important that every now and then I plan a photo shoot that […]

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portrait photography of artist Isabel Brinck painting in her studio

Portait of an Artist: Isabel Brinck | Luxe Magazine

May 9, 2018 by Sonya Revell

For my recent style-makers photo shoot for Luxe Interiors + Design, I got to spend some time with Chilean-Born, Miami-based artist, Isabel Brinck. Isabel’s vivid paintings reveal a dream-like world full of bright colors and distorted shapes and figures. The graphic elements in her paintings, along with her artfully arranged studio and materials, created the perfect environment for the reportage photography needed for the Luxe magazine spread. And while Isabel’s studio was incredibly photogenic, she was even more so- which made […]

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Portrait of Naeem Khan | Wine Spectator

February 6, 2018 by Sonya Revell

A few months back, I was invited to the Miami pied-a-terre of renowned fashion designer, Naeem Khan, for a photo shoot with Wine Spectator magazine. (You can see the article here, http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Wine-Design-Fashion-Mogul-Naeem-Khan) I didn’t have to travel far, as Khan’s penthouse apartment is located just a mile from my condo. (Of course, his home and my home are a world apart in terms of scale and furnishings. 😉 Khan is known for his colorful and ornate designs, that have attracted the likes of […]

Categories: editorial portrait, Environmental portrait, Miami, Naeem Khan, Uncategorized, Wine Spectator • Tags: champagne, editorial, environmental portraits, fashion designer, Indian designer, interior design, Krug, miami, Miami Penthouse, miami photographer, Naeem Khan, portrait, portrait photography, Portraiture, sonya revell, south florida, wine and design, Wine Spectator

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Aldous Bertram | Luxe Style-Maker

November 9, 2017 by Sonya Revell

After a busy summer, (than included dealing with a little hurricane named Irma) I’m finally getting back to the blog! As a regular contributor to Luxe Interiors + Design magazine, I have the good fortune of getting to meet and photograph many talented and interesting artists, designers and curators from Miami to Palm Beach. That said, I especially love how this recent style-makers spread, of artist/interior designer, Aldous Bertram turned out. For this shoot, we headed up North to photograph […]

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Category Archives: Uncategorized

Style-Makers Portraits | Luxe Magazine

First Photo Shoot of 2019

Portrait of Mia Nygren | Billboard Magazine

GoFundMe Heroes Campaign

Portraits of Phillip Estlund | Luxe

Portrait of Billy Corben | Time Out Miami

Men’s Style | Welcome to the Jungle

Portait of an Artist: Isabel Brinck | Luxe Magazine

Portrait of Naeem Khan | Wine Spectator

Aldous Bertram | Luxe Style-Maker