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August 2006 Sixteen Dollars (US) www.commarts.com

Books 1 (series) Howard Schatz, photographer Beverly J. Ornstein, project director/senior editor Bulfinch Press, publisher “Botanica is a sumptuous volume of 113 photographs, from the exotic (angel’s trumpets, passionflowers and pincushions) to the familiar (lilies, roses and begonias), flowers have never looked quite like this before. Annotations at the back of the book, accompanied by miniature reproductions of the full-page plates, identify each flower and leaf and provide both common and Latin names.”

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Editorial 1 (series) Christopher Morris, VII, photographer Alice Gabriner/Maria Wood, associate picture editors Lisa Botos/MaryAnne Golon, picture editors Michele Stephenson, director of photography Time/Time Asia, clients Article title: The Hermit Nation. “To visit North Korea is to enter one of the world’s last closed societies. The tiny communist state and aspiring nuclear power is effectively shut off from the rest of the world and visitors are limited to the (privileged) few.”

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Self-Promotion 1 Trevor Pearson, photographer “For use in portfolio and in direct-mail pieces.”

2 (series) Nathan Schroder, Greg Booth & Associates, photographer Page Boyle/Molly Terry, stylists “I designed and created these images to use as self-promotion for portfolio, Web and direct-mail.”

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Mimi Haddon

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Location: Los Angeles, California, and www.mimihaddon.com.

I have been shooting professionally for six years but my personal style has really emerged over the past year.

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BFA, visual communication design, California State University Long Beach, a year in Paris, working as a graphic designer for three years, the Santa Fe Photography Workshops, the Julia Dean Workshops, the Creativity Center in Santa Monica.

Education:

Sigur Ros, KCRW, I Love Lucy reruns, local theater, Venice Beach, New Yorker cartoons, modern dance, David Sedaris, Andy Goldsworthy, Fred Segal stores, Vidiots, public and private gardens, Los Angeles architecture, Topanga Canyon, old copies of National Geographic, calligraphy, hand crafts, cultural diversity, surprises, my children. Photographers: my grandfather, Sarah Moon, Lillian Bassman, Rocky Schenck, Pierre et Gilles.

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Environment: When I’m not out shooting,

I’m usually out looking. One of my favorite places on the planet is the Palace Costume shop on Fairfax. I can find a vintage bathing suit and create an entire shoot around it. I also love picking up on the personality of a great location.

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