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Actor and corporate headshots may look similar on the surface, but they are built to do completely different jobs. One is designed to create trust. The other is designed to create curiosity. That difference changes everything about how the image feels when someone sees it for the first time. Over the last 30+ years photographing […]

Barry came in carrying something a lot of actors carry: a LinkedIn photo he’d been using as his headshot. It was a perfectly fine image for a professional networking profile. Warm smile, approachable energy, nothing technically wrong with it. But it wasn’t doing what an actor headshot is supposed to do. It wasn’t communicating range, […]

Most actors in NYC and New Jersey who aren’t getting signed aren’t being held back by talent. They’re being held back by materials that aren’t ready- and most of them don’t know it yet. If that sounds familiar, here’s what’s actually going on and how to fix it. Why Actors in NYC and New Jersey […]

You’ve done everything right. You’re in class. You’ve built a reel. You finally invest in a headshot session, walk out feeling genuinely good about the shots, and then nothing happens. Submissions go unanswered. Auditions don’t come. Here’s what I’ve watched happen over 30 years of photographing actors across actor headshots in NYC and Northern NJ: […]

There’s a moment in every child actor headshot session where something shifts. The smile softens. The shoulders drop. The eyes stop performing and start just being. I can usually tell within the first few frames whether we’ll get there quickly… or whether we need to slow things down and earn it. That moment is where […]

You can usually tell within the first five minutes whether someone’s comfortable in front of a camera. With Maximo Masefield, a young actor from Ridgewood, it took about thirty seconds. As a Northern NJ actor headshot photographer, I could see right away that he was a natural in front of the lens. Kid’s been working […]