Joe Henson's Headshot Article in Backstage On-Line

We're excited to announce that you can access Joe Henson's article on Headshots - "Successful Shooting" at Backstage On-Line.  Please follow this link to read - http://www.backstage.com/bso/news-and-features-features/successful-shooting-1004078219.story.

New Promo Shots for Katrina Szish!

We recently shot a creative and extremely fun session with Katrina Szish. Katrina is a NYC-based pop-culture journalist and television personality. She has held senior editorial roles at VOGUE, GQ and INSTYLE magazines, and she is omnipresent on the airwaves. She is a familiar face on national morning shows where she masterminds makeovers and demystifies red carpets and runways; she appears on cable news networks alongside some of the world’s most renowned journalists to debate the hottest headlines, and her insights on the cult of celebrity have made her a staple on entertainment news shows. Katrina regularly appears on “THE TODAY SHOW,” “THE VIEW,” “THE EARLY SHOW,” “THE O’REILLY FACTOR” and “SHOWBIZ TONIGHT” and VH-1.

Katrina is also the Editor-in-Chief of http://www.pinkmemo.com.

Katrina wanted her portfolio to reflect a fashion forward sense of style with a range of concepts. Make-up and Hair Styling credit goes to Kerry-Lou, found at http://www.kerry-lou.com. Kerry has provided Hair and Make-up for Joe Henson Photography for the past ten years and is definitely our not-so-secret weapon.

Here is the first image - hot off the presses!

Beauty Portfolio Update!

Kerry and I have been hard at work on our beauty portfolio. We enlisted the modeling talents of our lovely Susannah from Boston and lo and behold - lighting struck...twice. Here are the before and afters..

Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales passed on October 22nd at 83 years old. He was a true comedic legend and a totally unique personality whose style influenced many after him including Pee-wee Herman and Andy Kaufman. He will truly be missed.

About 8 years ago my phone rang and low and behold, "Hi Joe, this is Soupy Sales! I need a new photograph and my agent said I should see you!" Another unexpected and exciting moment, and one of the reasons I love my job so much. I grew up with Soupy Sales as a household name. I had followed him from "Lunch with Soupy Sales" to "Whats' My Line" to "The New Soupy Sales Show". And there he was calling for a headshot! Wow! Soupy Sales! My mind was swimming with memories as I booked his shoot...asking the kids to go into their parents' wallets and send him the little pieces of green paper..."Doing the Mouse", his single, was the fasting selling single in history in it's time...and much pie throwing, even at Frank Sinatra!!!!!

When he came to the shoot, he couldn't have been nicer or more professional. He came with his wife Trudy, who was an ex-June Taylor Dancer from the Old Jackie Gleason Show. She was still a stunner.

The session was easy and fun and Soupy was open and crazy and totally frank with his industry war stories and opinions. I loved the shoot with Soupy. I told him about seeing his sons who played in "Tin Machine" with David Bowie and he told me how proud he was of them. At the end of his session, he invited me to lunch at his apartment on the Eastside and I would have done anything to go, but alas, I had another session to shoot.

After our work was done, a signed 8X10 arrived in the mail. It was our photograph and he had signed it "I love you, Joe,
Soupy Sales"

My shoot with Soupy Sales - a big memory for me. Rest in Peace Soupy.

Bridal Variations

Kerry and I shot Christie for a bridal portfolio last week. We got the shot we wanted and then decided to play around a bit. Makes it all worthwhile!

Having much fun with Photography!

This summer has been one for play, and hopefully growth. We have been working in the portrait game as per usual, but also pushing on some new markets. Last Sunday our whole family converged on the studio to work on Jennifer's art project. It will be a magazine and art piece all at once. Jennifer designed ensembles that are an artistic take on a blend of Hip Hop fashion merged with Hippie aesthetics. Kerry did the Hair and Make-up, Jenn did the styling and design, Abbie and James were the models and yours truly put it all on pixels. Here are some of the shots we took...

Big Gallery Opening Night Party!

Our opening night party was wonderful!

It started out badly. As Kerry and I were driving to the gallery, the skies opened up and a monsoon began. As I bemoaned my fate, Kerry stepped in and cast a spell. She cleared the skies of clouds above the gallery and as we got closer, the rain lessened and then stopped! Note to myself - Never mess with Kerry - Strong powers there!

We were pleased to see so many of our friends from Manhattan and all over the area. It was extremely heartwarming to get that support.

I want to thank Krista Hyer, the gallery owner for the wonderful job she did in the presentation and organization of the show. And to all of our friends who showed up - it meant a lot to me that you made such an effort on a drizzly night.

I am very pleased to say that we have sold 3 prints so far, and the show will be up until mid July. Please stop by!

Mona Lisa Gallery
168 Maplewood Avenue
Maplewood, NJ