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Silhouette Series
On going project with lots more to see in the Silhouette Gallery on my site.
Welcome. Visogler (vīz-ū-gul-r) is where you’ll find professional visual creatives’ latest work spanning multiple disciplines. Our goal is simple: to help you discover new work from top creative professionals.
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Stirred
Inspired by a cocktail recipe book for the 1950s, I wanted to create a series classic drinks in a bright and colorful way. Each drink is paired with a still life of an accessory that is part of making the
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Mantry – Tailgating
Great shoot for Mantry on this SuperBowl/Tailgating themed dinner. Shot in Studio 410 in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Skills USA Portraits
I was recently commissioned by Bob Boord (CD) and Neil Tobin (ACD) to create a series of 10 portraits for SkillsUSA; an organization that partners with students, teachers and industry leaders to ensure that America has a skilled workforce. Ironically,
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Gatherings
Team Elledge loves to grill, and this past summer we got a dream project from Weber Grill and Crew-Up Productions. The combination of a great client and a top-flight crew made the brand idea come to life. While working with
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Walk-Over
This is one part of a self promotion piece that I shot to the theme “Polish up for Winter.”
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Colorado Farm Life
I left Chicago a while back to experience living and breathing the farm life on a friend’s farm on the Western Slope of Colorado. I was there for four months straight waking up with the sun, getting my hands dirty
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Wisconsin Ice Fishing
I recently helped a friend on a commercial video production and traveled to Wisconsin for the shoot. On the last day of the trip we had some down time. It was a nice break from Chicago advertising photography. I stayed
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Victory Motorcycles
We were commissioned by Victory’s european design firm to shoot the images for their 2015 launch, we shot both locations for three days, the Palm Springs visitor center & the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown L.A, and then moved
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Antarctic Explorers
New Project to honor the first African American Explorers to Antarctica. The project was put together in close collaboration with retoucher, Brian York, and hair/stylist Cindy Shute. This project was a great collaboration with some amazing people. Read the full
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Lifestyle shoot in the cold with beer
NewDay Craft has a new collection of winter craft beers and they wanted a library shoot of lifestyle images for their marketing and advertising. Lars Lawson of Timber Design was creative director and art director. We ended up with about
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Ram Trucks
I photographed these around the country over about 6 months. I started out in photography shooting landscapes and am glad I am shooting them more now.
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Range Rover in Aspen Snow
I worked with photographer Clark Griffiths to retouch these automotive images of a Range Rover forging through the snowy mountains of Aspen. My vision was to mold the images which were photographed during an overcast day to give the feeling
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Wicker Park
Wicker Park, Chicago, is a great neighborhood and I’ve been wanting to do a portfolio shoot there. Finally put one together with help from producer Christy Schmid and models that included four from Galatea. Shot from late afternoon into early
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Hailey Laine Zombie Series
This month I got an opportunity to work with Youtube sensation Hailey Laine, one of Agency Galatea’s newest young models. Hailey Laine produces roughly (5-6) Youtube videos per month and is followed by over 265,000 followers. This Halloween Hailey wanted
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Pentax People Shooting People
Quote from Steve Bagby ” We engaged Andy Goodwin of Chicago to produce lifestyle imagery for 5 unique cameras, we created over 75 images all designed to support retail dealers and online communications. We developed a new asset portal site
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Branding Food Photography for Milo’s Hamburgers
I had an awesome opportunity to work with the Ad Agency Cayenne Creative on their re-branding project for Milo’s, a southern burger chain. The shoots went great, the crew was awesome and the client loves the images. The images are
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Coors Light Explorer Ad
New Coors Light Explorer ad I teamed up with Cavalry to create. I love this campaign and glad to be a part of it!
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Skittles Point of Sale Project
Teamed up this spring with Catapult Marketing to create a fun summer images with a skittles twist on reality.
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Bunny Face
Here is a sneak peek at the next book in my animal photo book, BUNNYFACE. This book will feature expressive, sometimes humorous, but always interesting graphic portraits of bunnies on white.
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Chicago Marathon Route – Nike Running
After an immense three days of crossing the city and chasing the ideal sun all while avoiding cars I captured over 10,000 images of runners over most of the 26.2 mile Chicago Marathon route for Nike. Check out the images,
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Andrea Knitting from her Sheep
A fun portrait of Andrea Myklbust of Black Cat Farm and Fiber Studio – Stockholm, WI
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Recent Documentary Work
Chicago has many opportunities to grow your documentary photography skills and is always a good way to stretch oneself as a photographer. Nothing beats the thrill of walking up to a complete stranger and asking them if you can take
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The Choice to Defect
This image is one of many from my book, coming out in 2015, called “18 Inches: Distance from Head to Heart”, about conflict between logic and emotion. This image is also being featured in the Freeman Gallery Space in Brooklyn
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Edward Jones TV Commercial
I love telling stories. This story takes place in a small town barbershop. The barber is a town fixture. He knows everyone and is loved by all. You don’t visit him just for a haircut, you visit him for the
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Fiat 500 TV Commercial
This commercial tells a story of the raw power and emotion of those fleeting moments when racing to the hospital for the birth of a child all kept comfortable and safe with the driving perfection of the Fiat 500. This
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Cooking Light Magazine – Dinner Tonight May 2014
Shot this dinner tonight story for Cooking Light Magazine’s May 2014 issue, had a blast working in the studio with their awesome art department and crew!
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Chicago Magazine: CPD Crime Numbers Cover
I photographed the June 2014 cover of Chicago Magazine’s two part story investigating the Chicago Police department altering the crime statistics to make their department look good. The feet image was used in the first part of the report, May 2014 issue.
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Oxlot 9
Had the awesome (and delicious) opportunity to shoot for a new New Orleans restaurant, Oxlot 9. Chef Jeffrey Hansell was recently nominated as one of Food and Wine’s best new chef’s of 2014 and Oxlot 9 will be his first
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Interface Carpet – Spring 2014
Here are some images from a campaign we recently shot for Interface Carpet. Big thanks to stylist Sage Reed for bringing her A game, as always. Thanks also to the good people of Ogilvy and Mather for bringing us such
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ADIDAS 2014 soccer world cup, team Mexico
I was commissioned by Chiat Day to shoot the Mexican soccer team for Adidas, for their 2014 soccer world cup campaign. We had to re-create real in game situations, both for the players and the fans shots, and make them
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Breville Print and TV Campaign
I love film and photography so this project was the best of both worlds. Collaborating with Struck on the campaign, we developed a cohesive look for both the print campaign as well as the tv. Photo retouching by Brian York
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Cooking Light Magazine – Dinner Tonight March 2014
This was one of my first stories for Cooking Light Magazine; the March 2014 Dinner Tonight feature. Shot in the cooking light photo studio in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Coastal Living Magazine – Easy Grilling
I had a blast shooting this grilled food story on location in Seaside, Florica for Coastal Living magazine’s June 2014 issue!
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Man’s Best Friend
Barbara O’Brien was an animal actor trainer for many years prior to her full-time photography career, which is apparent through her brilliant animal photos that jump right off the page. Recently, Barbara took on a bit of a different role
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The Renaissance series
Sometimes in life, fate arrives to give you a little push in the right direction. This was the case with photographer Freddy Fabris. Since his early days in photography, Freddy had been looking for a way to pay homage to
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Subaru BRZ and Impreza Redesign Direct
Over the last six or so years Subaru Canada has entrusted me with shooting any new models, the new BRZ and the redesigned Impreza in this instance, directly out of their Marketing Department. They sometimes give me reference on what
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More From Dusek’s
Dusek’s has been busy receiving rave reviews and racking up notoriety so I thought it was only fit to post some more recent photos from the fine folks down in Pilsen. Images in this post include the 2014 summer cocktail
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Once You Shake ‘Em
Recent ad work shot with DDB Chicago for Temptations Cat Treats.
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DOGFACE – Real Dogs, Real Expression
DOGFACE is a winsome collection that shows each dog’s essential character. The goofiness of the boisterous Border Collie, the decorum of the genteel Great Dane, and the curiosity of the regal Corgi—all of them are captured here in this fun
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SunCoke Energy Project Picked for Creative Quarterly Winner
In the upcoming Creative Quarterly, Issue 35 Summer 2014, three of my images were chosen as winners and four runner-ups. Included in those is this series from my work with Rob Mileham and SunCoke Energy. You can check out more
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New work – Babies & Tots
Inspired to create something lovely in the studio, the team and I built a small set and photographed a handful of youngsters over two days. Casting some great new faces for this was a snap using my social network of
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Walgreens Photo Department – Spring 2014
Here are a few images from a project we shot recently for the Walgreens Photo Dept. Super fun project with great creatives, styled beautifully by Rebekah Wiest. Cheers, AB
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Bruised & Bloody Portraits for Blackbox Acting Studio
I worked with Blackbox Acting studio on some portraits for their new website & lobby. Blackbox is known for having a super intensive training program so they wanted all of their subjects to look like they’d just won a fight…
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Photographing Morocco
These are three Images taken on a recent trip to Morocco. It is an exceptionally beautiful country with a diverse amount of land and cityscapes. The biggest challenge I found as a photographer was doing street photography. Moroccans in general
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Shades of Gray Portraits
A new portrait project exploring the beauty of aging gracefully with shades of white, black and gray.
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Money on White, extra change.
This was a personal project I concocted to illustrate how greed has become a menu item in today’s society.
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Cocaine Chicago Magazine
Some outtakes from a cocaine shoot I did for Chicago Magazine. The article is about how the Sinaloa Cartel supplies most of the illegal narcotics in Chicago.
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Montana Life
A personal project exploring the people of the Paradise Valley in Montana. I have always been attracted to the landscape of Montana but really wanted to focus on the people and their interaction with the landscape. It was a true
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Be the Best in the World
I recently collaborated with Creative Director Anthony Nagy of 88 Brand Partners on an agency project – their sponsorship of the 2014 METROsquash Windy City Open. The result was a bold and quirky micro site branding ‘Hans’ as the best
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Ghana – Off The Clock, APA Contest
An image I made while in Ghana was chosen for the ‘Off The Clock’ 2014 APA personal photography exhibition. The exhibition is put together by the Los Angeles chapter of APA and curated by Britt Salvesen of the Los Angeles
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Jahlil Okafor Dunk Retouching for Taylor Castle
Composite photograph I worked on of Jahlil Okafor about to make an epic dunk for photographer Taylor Castle for a featured article in Chicago Magazine. Five images were used to create this composite along with smoke created in photoshop.
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Kmart Surprise
A Project for Kmart displayed in stores nation wide reflecting a surprise, and any other crazy emotions that goes along with that.
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Matthew Bowie teams up with Retoucher Brian York
I recently started collaborating with Brian York, a photo retoucher to create a series of portfolio pieces together. I have wanted to work with Brian for the longest time and super stoked about putting our minds together. He is an
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Dusek’s & Punch House
Culinary creations by Chefs Jared Wentworth and Jeremy Brutzkus from Dusek’s Punch House photographed on location.
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Doodles on the Daily
Midway through my graphic design degree, I realized that I began to draw less and less. I found this a bit disconcerting and knew I didn’t want to lose the practice, so I decided I would start doing a drawing
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Pepsi 2013 NFL Campaign Retouching
Photographer Taylor Castle and I worked on a great project with Tracy Locke for the 2013 Pepsi / Frito-Lay NFL campaign. The scope of this project was enormous representing 23 NFL teams with a stadium and tailgating image for most.
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LaCrosse Footwear Campaign
These open and expansive hunt themed images are part of an advertising campaign for LaCrosse footwear. The focus was intended to be on the setting of the hunt and the beauty of the environment highlighting the experience rather than the
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