Morganistik says: photography is basically to be at the right time at the right place. You can anticipate this or it can be some great luck. Just like that day in June at 4.26pm, I was walking in Barcelona at Montjuic neighborhood when I noticed the sun was right on top of the telecommunication tower also known as Torre Calatrava.
This 136 meters high tower was built in 1992 by the architect Santiago Calatrava to transmit the TV coverage of the olympic games. It’s representing an athlete holding the olympic flame. And that day, it was holding the biggest flame in the universe.

Morganistik says: another fashion week is just over in Paris and after shooting the menswear and couture collections, a friend asked me: aren’t you distracted by seeing so many beautiful models?
As fashion week photographers, we see walking the most beautiful creatures on earth in front of us. But beauty is a subjective concept. And extreme beauty in the fashion world is the standard. So at some point it becomes our normality.
And sometimes something magic happens, like a few days ago when I was sitting in the photographer’s pit, watching the rehearsals of Yiqing Yin couture Spring Summer 2012. The venue was empty, the music starts, and this beauty appears: Russian model Svetlana Mukhina… Round doll face and concentrated face expression, her hair mixing perfectly with the dress, looking almost like a religious icon, it was one of those “wow” moments that made me really happy to be a runway photographer.

Morganistik says: Paris Fashion Week is just over and after sorting out my 8000 pictures, I noticed there is a girl I unconsciously really liked: Simona Andrejic (Elite model).
I saw her at several shows show I went to, and she has a sort of broken nose almost looking like a boxer. And if there is something we learned from models since the 90′s (think of Cindy Crawford’s trademark mole for example) it’s that what we sometimes take for a default, can in fact make us so unique, hence beautiful.
Simona looks good on runways, she looks good backstage and most important for me behind my camera: she always looks amazing on each pictures. I chose this profile photo of her backstage at Arzu Kaprol Spring/Summer 2012 show as she looks like an ancient Greek sculpture. Remember her name as she’s a supermodel of tomorrow.

And the guy tells me: it’s not handy for me to enter everywhere with a girl’s name… So I tell him well, you shouldn’t have taken *my* badge for a start but instead of it I got a Vogue one that opened me way more doors as everybody believed I actually worked for Vogue :) And he asks me: can we exchange? I said: no way! But I’m going to take a picture of it and a picture of you wearing it.

 You can’t imagine the attitude people have when they believe you work for Vogue. In fact I already experienced it when I worked for the fashion bible before and tonight again I noticed people put out the red carpet for you. Some designers PRs left their work place to make me a visit of their shops.
Maybe 20 people in the street came to me saying: hi, sorry to bother you, do you work for Vogue? Do you know how I can enter at Vogue? My girlfriend is a photographer, how can she enter at Vogue? Do you have a contact of someone at Vogue for me? Do you know where is the secret Vogue party? Can I please take a picture with you?
My conclusion: thanks to the unknown dude who stole my badge, I spent an excellent Fashion Night Out in Paris wearing my Vogue badge, I got a few visit cards from PRs who jumped on me from the best fashion designers. So really: thank you. Oh and if you ever read this one day: if you want you can send me my badge with my name as I keep them as souvenir. There is a contact section on my blog where you can reach me.

PS: dear Vogue, I will work for you one day but I still have some skills and techniques to learn and master. Though I’m always available for your online version as you can see on my last coverage for you

Morganistik says: I made the picture of the new record by techno legends Alexi Delano & Cari Lekebusch – “Off World Wonder” (HPX 56) that is out today on H-Productions.

I took that picture a few years back in London one night I was walking with a friend at South Bank near Tate museum. And I mixed it with another photo I recently took also in London of lights reflecting on a window on rainy night…

There is a vocal sample on the 2nd track “Streams of dreams” that is in fact my voice. The story behind this is that I work for Cari Lekebusch and his label H-Productions for three years in the virtual world of Second Life. We met in real in 2006 and re-met by accident in Second Life a few months later.

Last year I organized an event in Second Life for the release of Cari’s album “State of the Art” and we recorded several samples for that event. On one of them I was saying “State of the art” and it’s the word “state” you hear in loop on “Streams of dreams”.

Cari messaged me telling me he made a track with my voice and asked me if he could use one of my photos for the cover. And this is how a little piece of my voice and my picture ended on this amazing techno release with fat round kicks made by techno masters: Cari Lekebusch and Alexi Delano.

Morganistik says: This pointy multi-pitch roof like a folded fan is a detail of Berlin TV tower base (Berliner Fernsehturm) by architects Walter Herzog et Heinz Aust. Former German Democratic Republic was the first country to build giant TV towers in concrete that became a prototype for many towers around the world.

Morganistik says: working at fashion weeks can be a fascinating experience. After one year in this world and 50 shows, I start to get habits, make connections with the photographers, the PR, the journalists, the designers and of course the models. Show after show, I recognize the habits of the models: how they behave, how they walk, how they pose, how they take the light and the relations they build with the photographers. Some models are excellent at it, and some are really bad at it.

This year during the menswear collections at Paris Fashion Week, my camera has been particularly impressed and attracted by a new male model: Timothy Kelleher. He looks like a teen, he wear braces, but I was amazed by how professional he is. He’s from London in D1 Models and Ford Models Europe.

When a model arrives at the end of the runway he has to make a look for the cameras and Timothy does this special thing: he tries to look quick at all the cameras, so that gives you the time in the 3 seconds you have to get a good shot.

You would think that models all know how to pose for the cameras but believe me, it’s not the case. And models who give something special like him make a difference when you get back to your office to sort out your 1200 daily pictures. You know that his pictures will be good and it’s something we really appreciate as photographers. Chemistry is not something granted in advance, but with Timothy in front of your camera on the runway, you know it’s going to happen.

Later in that season, I had to work as backstage photographer, and my camera crossed Timothy’s path again. And there also he was excellently pro. He understands without one word what we want from him. No need to talk to him, just one eye contact and he gets what you expect. He’s very aware of all that is happening around him and pays attention when a photographer targets him with a camera. He will naturally take the time to pose for each photographers.

He is one of the most discreet models backstage. I can’t say if he’s shy, but he’s very low profile and very quiet. You can only tell he loves his job and does it perfectly. I’m sure he’s going to be really big very soon. And the last detail: he’s only 17!

I was so amazed each time I saw him that I wanted to send a word to his agencies to say: he is really good and super pro. So Timothy, if you ever read that, thank you for being as you are. It’s just excellent how the magic natually works with you. Don’t change.

There is a facebook fan page but as he’s new, you’ll see ony 26 fans and 4 pictures. With this article, now you can tell you knew him before everybody: Timothy Kelleher Facebook fan Page

Morganistik says: that day my neighbour in the metro was a doll. Really.

Morganistik says: the voice of Liset Alea, singer of the band Nouvelle Vague, never left my mp3 player with the track by AlexKid “Come with me”. Sometimes some lyrics remind you of real stories and simply make you smile.
This summer hesitating between 2 parties on beaches of Barcelona, we decided to go to a DJ marathon where Alexkid was playing. I heard that Liset was there and with some luck got introduced to her. I could suddenly put a face on that sexy, sensual, magic voice that was for 8 years in my ears.
Not surprisingly, she’s as pretty as her music.