Photo Director / Creative Producer
Michelle Stark is an award-winning photo director and creative producer. For over 20 years she's been on-set art directing and producing compelling photo and video content at some of the country’s most prestigious brands including NBC, Bravo, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Glamour and Men's Health.
CAPABILITIES
Full Shoot Production - Celebrity, Portrait, Fashion, Environmental, Food, Still-Life
Pitching And Hiring Photographers/Directors
Talent and Client Relations
On-Set Management and Art Direction
Hiring and Managing teams
Budget Management
Post-Production Management
Casting
Photo Research
AWARDS & HONORS
Los Angeles Press Club Awards
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2018 Best portrait/
John Lithgow for THR -
2014 1st Place Multimedia Package/Solomon Northrup Descendants for THR
Society of Publication Designers
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2020, 2021, 2022 Photography Judge
and Portfolio Reviewer -
2022 Gold Medal/photography feature/
Lil Nax X for EW -
2020 Silver Medal/photography feature/Awkwafina, Silver Medal/digital photography/Danai Gurira for EW
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2009 Award of Distinctive Achievement – Men’s Health Magazine
Palm Springs Photo Festival
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2016 Portfolio Reviewer
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2015 Portfolio Reviewer
NYC
Fotoworks
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2012 Portfolio Reviewer
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2011 Portfolio Reviewer
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2010 Portfolio Reviewer
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nigel Cox
Patrick Fraser
Don Flood
Chris Buck
Jeff Lipsky
Bryce Duffy
Emily Shur
Kevin Zacher
Matt Jones
Art Streiber
Michael Muller
Sami Drasin
Giselle Hernandez
Peter Hapek
Austin Hargrave
Robert Maxwell
Levi Brown
Miko Lim
Brooke Nipar
Giuliano Bekor
Joao Canzoni
Marcus Nilsson
Ramona Rosales
David Slijper
Nolwen Cifuentes
AB+DM
Eric Ogden
G.L. Askew
Ture Lillegraven
Nathaniel Welch
Michael Edwards
George Holz
Jamie Chung
Eric Ray Davidson
Pari Dukovic
Zoe McConnell
Kwaku Alston
King Texas
Rodolfo Martinez
Gavin Bond
Brian Bowen Smith
Ruven Afanador
Andrew Hetherington
Nino Munoz
Peter Yang
Jill Greenberg
Kenji Toma
Andrew Macpherson
Frank Ockenfels
Michael Lewis
Sheryl Nields
Dan Winters
Marc Hom
Guy Aroch
Lauren Dukoff
Andrew Macpherson
Miller Mobley
Martin Schoeller
Joe Pugliese
Amanda Friedman
David Needleman
Plamen Petkov
Sasha Eisenman
James Macari
Julian Broad
Peggy Sirota
Kennedi Carter
Giselle Hernandez
Nolwen Cifuentes
Andrew Hetherington
