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Cornell Fashion Collective Fashion Show 2016

25 Friday Mar 2016

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For the 10th year in a row, I photographed Cornell University’s annual fashion show. According to the Cornell Fashion Collective’s website:

The Cornell Fashion Collective, formerly the Cornell Design League, is a student-run organization that provides members of the Cornell community with an outlet to express creativity in fashion and fashion management. Each spring, our organization presents a professional runway show featuring the talent of students who both design apparel and manage the operations of the show. Our organization gives students, both undergraduate and graduate, the opportunity to practice design, demonstrate their talents, and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion event.

As I have mentioned in the past, although I enjoy photographing the show itself (you can see those photos), I especially enjoy capturing candid photos of the designers and models getting ready for the show backstage before the actual show.

Here’s a collection of the backstage photos I captured this year (2016)…

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2014 Cornell Fashion Collective Show

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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I have been photographing the annual fashion show at Cornell University for 9 years now. I’m starting to consider whether next year (my 10th) should be my last.

Whether it is or not, I will be approaching the College of Human Ecology about putting together a retrospective of photos covering that 10-year period, and possibly making it available as a book published by the Cornell University Press.

But I’m getting ahead of myself!

Many of the 9 years I’ve been taking photos of the show (including the very first one), I start by photographing the models and designers getting ready back stage before the show. I then shift over to the runway in time to photograph the show.

One of the years, I stayed back stage while a fellow photographer photographed the show. It was interesting seeing what goes on back stage *during* the show and to capture it photographically.

Anyway, I have always liked taking photos of the unstaged activities going on before the show. While the show itself can be quite visually spectacular, it’s less compelling from a human interest perspective. What happens back stage before the show is full of emotions and idiosyncrasies.

So here I present a selection of photos I took before the 2014 fashion show in chronological order, ending with two shots from the subsequent show.

(You’ll probably notice that the photos get darker and darker. This is due to both the available natural light becoming less and less as the sun set, and the dimming of the interior lights as the show draws closer. It gets so dark back there, that a primarily available light photographer like myself has practically no option but to seek out the various small lights designers are using–including things like cell phones–and taking whatever shots they make possible.)

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(BTW, if you’re interested, here are the runway show photos.)





















 



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Collegetown Break (November 2013)

02 Saturday Nov 2013

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Just Another Cornell in the Fall Photo (September 2013)

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Just Another Cornell in the Fall Photo (Sept 2013)

Just Another Cornell in the Fall Photo (Sept 2013)


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Cornell University, September 2013

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2013 Cornell Fashion Collective Fashion Show

23 Thursday May 2013

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For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve been photographing the fashion show at Cornell University. It’s always in the Spring and it’s always a good warm-up for the busy late Spring and Summer photography seasons.

This year, I did some photography both back stage and also photographed the entire show itself.

In this post, I’ll be featuring some of those back stage photos–which I truly enjoy taking; they’re totally candid/unstaged and give one a view of the event that you don’t normally see as a fashion show audience member. (I mixed in just a couple show photos for good measure.)

I’ll be adding to the gallery over the next few weeks, but here’s a start!

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Louie’s Lunch Truck at 9:30pm

27 Saturday Apr 2013

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Louie's Lunch Truck at 9:30pm, Ithaca, NY (April 2013)

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Cornell University “After Hours”

09 Friday Nov 2012

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I get a lot of paid photography work at Cornell University. When I finish a gig there, I usually still have a strong “looking for photos” mindset right after the gig (and of course, I’ve got my cameras with me) and so I end up taking random photos on campus. I decided to start a gallery here at my website where I’ll feature some of these “after hours” Cornell shots…:-).

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