Marie-Claude Hamel | Photographe

Here is the portrait of  partners Brian Gonick and Richard Mashaal from Senvest that I shot forBarron’s Magazine, New York.

After a few debates on where to set the shot, we thought it would be fun to do the pictures up on the roof of the Senvest building downtown, in the snow, and that it would give the shot an exotic look to new yorkers…

Brian and Richard were very open-minded and enthousiastic, even after spending 15 minutes up there in the wind and a cool -15 degrees, with their shoes burried under 10 inches of snow!

Brian Gonick and Richard Mashaal | Barron's Magazine | © Marir-Claude Hamel

Lhasa De Sela | © Marie-Claude Hamel

I photographed Lhasa in 2006 for Ici magazine in Lachine. She was very generous with me as I photographed her, singing to herself the entire time when we weren’t talking. She invited me to an acoustic concert she was giving during the “Coups de coeur francophone”  and it’s been one of the few musical perfomances that has had the most profound effect on me.

Lhasa passed away this January.

Found this portrait of writer Nicolas Dickner while looking through my archives… I met Nicolas last year at the marché Jean-Talon; his (awesome) book Nikolski was being re-edited in Great Britain and was going to be distributed in many anglo countries and I did some shots of him for a newspaper in Abu Dhabi.

I like this portrait a lot. It shows a more troubled Dickner than the one we usually see in pictures in the Voir paper or other medias.

Nicolas Dickner | © Marie-Claude Hamel

Had a shoot on the roof of a downtown building yesterday, in a cold minus 10 degrees and snow  flurries.

The final shot for Barron’s Magazine (New York)  will be available here in a week or two, but in the mean time, here’s a funny shot of my assistant Raphaël Ouellet.

Raphaël qui gèle | © Marie-Claude Hamel