Lians Jadan is a self-taught Photographer, image-maker and visionary, with a passion for visual image. Although he is self-taught photographer his career is very successful. He began making editorials for Vogue Italy, Prim, BG, Graphis, Business Destinations, Cliché and Hint magazines. In addition, his experience has taken him to be one of the leading consultants in the creative industry. Today I bring you guys a nice interview about his career and how his journey started.
I’ve always loved photography and the darkroom in my teens, however, I never knew I could do it as a living. my family never pushed the arts, they were always pushing medical, law, engineering. art wasn’t appreciated or enforced, and being firstborn to Chaldean parents (that immigrated to the united states in the late 70s), it was a rough road trying to have them accept what I needed to do.
The connection between subject and photographer, never settling for ok.
Everywhere and everything
I use every tool that I have at my disposal, location scouts, books, online, google maps, once I have a “feeling” I then start my search. sometimes, I find a location and that evokes a “feeling” to create.
if its for a client or myself (I would get/create a “theme/concept”), gathering inspiration (from everywhere, out on a walk, museums, books, online, etc), creating a mood board/treatment (for all aspects of the shoot, styling, models, lighting, hair, makeup, postproduction). before the shoot starts, I always like to walk the models through the concept, “feeling” of the shoot so they have time to channel what I’m looking for. great models are actors as well and have the ability to act and react to emotion and direction. picking out the music. capture images. afterward, comes the editing process, narrowing down the selects for a campaign/editorial (sometimes, the images are handed off and sometimes I am very involved in the selection and layout process).
self-taught, I picked up every fashion magazine, photography book, took a few classes to get in the darkroom and to use photo equipment, assisted photographers
I do love my canon 5dsr and my Hasselblad 503cw
It’s hard to choose, it’s like picking one of your favorite children, all have taken weeks/months to create. I love them all
The fashion industry in the USA is wonderful, boundaries are pushed, I wish we were as open-minded as Europe when it comes to our images.
Assisted more top photographers from all over the world to learn what to do and even more importantly what not to do. assisting top photographers opens so many doors if you are hungry and work hard. it builds your network and relationships.
The history of fashion photography by Nancy Hall-Duncan
Ricardo Tisci
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