Ice Breaking aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy
Ice Breaking aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy from Finn O'Hara on Vimeo.
This video was taken from Finn O'Hara's blog and documents a portion of his breathtaking Artic Expedition assignment.
Here is an excerpt from his blog:
"....a month ago I was awarded the job of a lifetime: document the Quark Expedition tourist experience aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy over two weeks, exploring the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, as well as Eastern Greenland, and Iceland. The trip did not disappoint, and it truly was the job, and trip, of a lifetime."
To check out more of his trip and view the stunning photographs visit his blog at: www.finnohara.com/blog
Finn’s Portrait of John Jones for Esquire Magazine
Back in April, I got a call from Michael Norseng, Photo Director at Esquire, asking if I’d be interested in shooting a piece for their upcoming “How to Be a Man” issue, profiling a grief counselor nicknamed Dr. Death.
Where do I sign-up?
An interesting turn to this assignment was that the writer of the piece is the son of Dr. Death (whose name is John Jones). I never really get to shoot with or collaborate with writers, so I was pretty excited to work with both son/writer, father/subject. I was equally excited when I found out that the writer was Chris Jones, who has written epic tales for the magazine over the years. My personal favorites are his storiesThe Things That Carried Him, and his piece Home, which became the book Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space. To make matters more amazing, Chris and I quickly realized that we went to University together, where we shared a passion for our student radio station, CJMQ, as DJ’s. Chris DJ’d and managed the station, and I DJ’d a show with a friend called the Sunday Afternoon Burnout Show (no seriously, that’s what it was called). Needless to say, we had a great time catching-up, and trading stories from when we last saw each other.
I’m really happy with how the piece turned out, and I’m very grateful to Chris & John for the amount of time they spared with me. Here’s the layout of opening spread:
Esquire’s “How to Be a Man” issue is on newsstands now.
Finn
An Official ‘Thank You’ Letter
One of the models in Finn's shoot for The Walrus crafted a thoughtful 'thank you' letter for him.
Finn’s Time Magazine shoot
I had the pleasure of shooting for Time Magazine a few weeks back, documenting a ground breaking program called Roots of Empathy, which is based here in Canada. From their website, Roots of Empathy is:
“an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression among schoolchildren by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.It’s a great program that utilizes a neighborhood infant and their parent, who visit a classroom every three weeks over a school year with the aid of a Roots of Empathy Instructor. The infant is in fact the “teacher”, and helps children reflect and identify their own feelings and the feelings of others.
Incredible, right?
Finn
Largest Potluck on Earth?
The fifteenth Slideluck Potshow in New York City is taking on the Guinness Book of World Records in their attempt for the Largest Potluck on Earth. This year the Potshow has partnered with the New York Photo Festival and will be hosting the event in the old Tobacco Warehouse. David Alan Harvery, Jae Choi and W.M Hunt will be curating the show which features many talented aritists, among them is Finn O'Hara!
Designlines Magazine by Finn
Shot over a week, Finn photographed the new issue of Designlines magazine (“Toronto’s ultimate guide to design”), which is in stores now.
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4. http://www.heathermorton.ca/blog
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5. http://www.flakphoto.com
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University Affairs Magazine cover by Finn
The very talented design team at Underline Studio called a few weeks back asking if they could pour over my contact sheets from my Arctic trips, in hopes of finding a landscape shot for an upcoming cover of University Affairs magazine.
To my surprise, they found a shot that I had completely looked over, and I’m thrilled with the result. It’s of the rolling tundra outside Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, with Mount Pelly in the background.
Finn
Mr. All Right by Finn O’Hara
Back in early January, Myles McHutcheon, the Photo Editor at Chatelaine Magazine, asked if I could help them illustrate a feature article based on Lori Gottlieb's hot new book "Marry Him". Her book is essentially about why women should stop holding out for Mr. Right, and Chatelaine was looking to illustrate the article with an array of young men, and demonstrate, as the book declares, the selection of men that exist out there for single women.
We threw our casting nets far and wide, and managed to photograph 26 guys over the course of a day. Many thanks to everyone who came out!