Fleischman Photography

Richard Fleischman Photography: People Book

Richard Fleischman Photography: Food Book

I worked with Sean Stone from Wonderful Machine on these new books, and am quite pleased with the results. Sean sorted through lots & lots of my images and paired it down to what you see now. It’s always fascinating to see what a talented editor will curate out of a vague, disparate mass. For a young, emerging photographer like myself, it’s essential to have that pure objective eye helping you. My next step is to get some promo materials together & started knocking on doors.

I’ve been lax in posting new work up here, so here are the last three months of Brown+Forman advertorial pages from Delta SKY Magazine. These are always fun to shoot, and I love the variety of recipe that we work with, all seasonally-themed. In order, they are from Sept., Oct., and November. Shooting the January page next week!

I have two pieces in the Fall 2011 issue of the quarterly “Where Women Cook.” I photographed my friend Christine Hoffman doing her thing, and Laurie Crowell of “The Golden Fig” food store in St. Paul. This might be the closest to Martha Stewart photography that I get, and I loved it! When I first got into photography, I couldn’t imagine shooting anything like this – it was all Cindy Sherman knock-offs of actors I knew, and and now I find this one of my favorite areas of photography. Also, Christine & I have work coming out soon in a book: ‘Where Women Cook: Celebrations” – the book release is this within the month.

The current Brown-Forman advertorial page of mine, page 77 of the August 2011 Delta SKY in-flight magazine. Already have September’s shot!

I have recently begun photographing food for an advertorial page in the Delta airlines in-flight magazine: Delta SKY. The client is Brown+Forman, maker of some fine wines and spirits, including one of my favorites, Woodford Reserve. I photographed the food in the above spread, and we have already got the August one in the can. The estimate that 5 MILLION people fly Delta each month!

Two of my more challenging and fun jobs last year were a pair of cookbooks I photographed for Quayside Publishing/Fair Winds Press. The recipes were developed by Jonny Bowden and Jeanette Bessinger, and are the latest in a popular series of books that they have co-authored. My first introduction to the world of publishing! We were striving to shoot TEN different recipes in a day (for a week), with one food stylist, the awesome Rachel Sherwood. So it was a lot of thinking fast, acting quickly and problem-solving. Led by the incomparable Michele Lanci-Altomare as AD we made it each time.

Kevin Love is having an historical season for the MN Timberwolves with his amazing knack for rebounding and scoring in double-digits. And one of the ways he’s improved his statistics is Isaac Werre, his personal chef. ESPN The Magazine was running a piece about Isaac and needed a photo that spoke to his specialist line of work. We shot at the charming older rental house he lives in with his fiancee, and I had the classic photographer dilemma, “uh, this space is kinda small and plain, uh, what do I do?” Good ol’ grid-lights to the rescue! I love how they sculpt a subject out of a staid, mundane background and into the point of interest. A hunk of raw beef also helps. You will be happy to know that brisket helped fuel KLove to a 14/10 against the Hornets that night.

I recently had the privilege of photographing the new Minnesota Vikings head-coach, Leslie Frazier, for a magazine from his home state of Mississippi. As a Vikings fan who listens to too much sports radio during the football season, I couldn’t have been happier! I’ve been waiting for the Vikings to promote him (at the expense of the previous coach) for this last miserable season. Coach Frazier was an incredibly gracious subject, soft-spoken and warm. And when I asked him to turn up his “defensive intensity,” the former member the 1985 Chicago Bears (widely considered the best defense in professional football history) had no trouble summoning up the good stuff. Thanks Coach, and good luck!

My friend Christine Hoffman is profiled in the current issue of MaryJanesFarm Magazine, a woman's lifestyle magazine. They asked me to document some stylish creations that Christine fashioned for an event out of old common objects. She is an accomplished stylist as well as cook.

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This is work of mine currently up in Florida on billboards and on public transportation. Agency: Periscope. Cute kids make the work so much easier!