Allison Leach is a commercial photographer who lives and works in New York. Her work is a dichotomous collection of celebrities and fictional characters, modern color and antiquated sepia tones. She has been a contributing photographer to People magazine for more than eight years. Her photographs have also been published in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Elle, Newsweek, Time, Fortune, Business Week, Men’s Health, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Sunday Times Magazine and others. A list of Allison’s commercial clients includes Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson, Spot Design, MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central; her work has been shown in both New York and London. Allison is a multifaceted photographer whose sense of humor and technical proficiency shine through in her work. She is equally comfortable photographing celebrities for commercial assignments or shooting portraits of “Misfit Explorers,” a personal project she has been working on since 1999. She recently launched a concept brand for the Web called MisfitIndustries.com, which promotes character-based merchandise celebrating an anti-celebrity world. www.allisonleach.com

2011 Course: Intro to Studio Lighting; Editorial Portraiture