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Photographer Lucas Zarebinski has a knack for transforming the mundane into the sublime.
By Franklin Melendez
Lucas Zarebinski is a man of few words; his images do the most of the talking. In a few short years,
the Polish-born photographer has built a commercial practice in New York City based on his still life
photography but don't expect to find any sleepy arrangements of fruit in his portfolio. Under
his exacting lens, commonplace objects are converted into dynamic, high-octane compositions: a laptop
rendered sleek and glossy, like the fender on a NASCAR racer; a stack of Popsicles lit to resemble
modernist sculpture; a BLT sandwich transformed to look like an enameled Jeff Koons creation. Such
studio craft has made the 32-year-old a hot commodity with an ever-growing list of glossies and ad
clients-no small feat for any young photographer, but all the rarer for one who seems to have
stumbled onto his calling. When I was 17, I dated this girl who took pictures, so I started taking
pictures as well, Zarebinski says. I always wanted to be an artist, but I couldn't draw or paint;
I just had an eye. The camera provided the perfect tool- all I needed was a vision. After
discovering his knack behind the lens, the then 20-year-old Zarebinski packed his bags and headed
from Bielsko-Biala, Poland, to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, to study photography and fine art,
parking cars at night and working on his English with his roomates.
From the beginning, Zarebinski was drawn to the detailed richness of large format imagery, and he
tirelessly lugged around a 4x5 camera to capture his subjects. However, portraiture-not advertising
product photography - was his initial impulse. I kept."
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Whether he's shooting close-ups or large-scale
scenes, Zarebinski approaches his subjects with a
sculptor's care, and his most trusted tool is the light-
ing. I only use studio lighting, he says. "It makes
a big difference in terms of sharpness and control.
You can direct your artificial light with incredible
precision to maximize its direction and angle.
Photographer Lucas Zarebinski has a knack for transforming the mundane into the sublime.
By Franklin Melendez
Lucas Zarebinski is a man of few words; his images do the most of the talking. In a few short years,
the Polish-born photographer has built a commercial practice in New York City based on his still life
photography but don't expect to find any sleepy arrangements of fruit in his portfolio. Under
his exacting lens, commonplace objects are converted into dynamic, high-octane compositions: a laptop
rendered sleek and glossy, like the fender on a NASCAR racer; a stack of Popsicles lit to resemble
modernist sculpture; a BLT sandwich transformed to look like an enameled Jeff Koons creation. Such
studio craft has made the 32-year-old a hot commodity with an ever-growing list of glossies and ad
clients-no small feat for any young photographer, but all the rarer for one who seems to have
stumbled onto his calling. When I was 17, I dated this girl who took pictures, so I started taking
pictures as well, Zarebinski says. I always wanted to be an artist, but I couldn't draw or paint;
I just had an eye. The camera provided the perfect tool- all I needed was a vision. After
discovering his knack behind the lens, the then 20-year-old Zarebinski packed his bags and headed
from Bielsko-Biala, Poland, to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, to study photography and fine art,
parking cars at night and working on his English with his roomates.
From the beginning, Zarebinski was drawn to the detailed richness of large format imagery, and he
tirelessly lugged around a 4x5 camera to capture his subjects. However, portraiture-not advertising
product photography - was his initial impulse. I kept."
_______________________________________
Whether he's shooting close-ups or large-scale
scenes, Zarebinski approaches his subjects with a
sculptor's care, and his most trusted tool is the light-
ing. I only use studio lighting, he says. "It makes
a big difference in terms of sharpness and control.
You can direct your artificial light with incredible
precision to maximize its direction and angle.
new york based still life photography studio specializing in food product and advertising photography