AJL Studio started in February of 2015, alongside it's partner company, the amazing floral designer MKM Design (that's my GF Meg, she's super cool). I have loved cameras since my parents got an old Kodak 35mm for me back when digital was just on the cusp of usurping film. I put it down for a long while to pursue other loves, but in the past 3 years or so, after being on set with huge cinema camera
s, and seeing how accessible DSLR's were for video, I jumped right back in. When I realized that I was gravitating more toward the photo side rather than video, and that this amazing machine was capable of so much more, I delved into photography 110% of the time. By total happenstance, I moved into a new apartment in waaay uptown Manahttan down the hall from a 35 year olf phto veteran, a true purist, who's been teaching me the "ancient" art of true medium and large format film photography. Do be a master at something truly, you need to know the insides and out all the way down to it's purest form. I truly believe that and it's made me a better photographer and story-teller. AJL Studio has since become what I think is a true photo studio as well as an on-site service for weddings, events, architecture, and generally capturing really beautiful and unique visions of the world. What I want AJL Studio to become is a full fledged photo production company with video and film elements, to create unique stories of all kinds - documentary, commercial, editorial, narrative, but most of all, personal. In life, I seek to reveal and tell the raw truth through a great story, and recently I've discovered that I like doing that through photography the most. I have always been an avid movie lover, and in our new golden age of television was inspired to pursue acting, then directing, then producing, then just plunged right into all aspects of full fledged production. With the help and guidance of friends dear to me in this crazy industry who have guided me to this point and who I trust to help create these stories, AJL Studio can now be the face of my creative process. The sky is literally the limit...no really, helicopter shoots are scary as hell but exhilarating and incredible!
