Publications

Peter Poulides publication samples:

This first group to be posted is from my years as an editorial and industrial shooter. Shooting freelance for magazines was exciting and often a financial and emotional roller coaster. After a dry spell, wondering if I’d ever get another job, the phone would ring and I’d be asked to shoot an assignment, sometimes in places I hadn’t heard of. Then the adrenaline rush, excitement, fear, preparation and more preparation before the trip. These were all done on film, so imagine shooting for a week or more on travel assignments and waiting until you get back to process everything before you know what you had. Kind of amazing, really.

American Photographer used to run a monthly contest. The assignment this time was “Contact” and this idea just popped into my head. This shot was produced using only film techniques. No Photoshop.

Cover and inside of Time magazine. Shot on assignment at a health clinic in Oak Cliff. Amazingly, I landed the cover even though the U.S. was invading Iraq the first time around.

Cover and inside spread of Travel & Leisure magazine. I was lucky to spend a week shooting art museums in Texas.

Another assignment for Travel & Leisure on luxury hotels in Texas. Of course, I had to stay where I was shooting so that made the job even nicer.

Eastern Airlines hired me to do a spread on Aruba and Curacao for their inflight magazine. It was times like this that being a working travel photographer was really a great job to have.

A photo essay for the Dallas Morning News Sunday Magazine. I had pitched this idea when I found out where Belt Line Road got its name. At the time, it really did go all around Dallas – like a belt.

Cover assignment for Smithsonian magazine. I flew to San Antonio to shoot this art/chair which belonged to an art collector. They didn’t want to transport the chair to a studio so we set up in their home with lights and backdrop.

A shot of the Dallas skyline done for Merian, a German travel magazine.

I was assigned to shoot the Kentucky Derby twice for Travel & Leisure. This shot was done with a remote camera mounted where there must have been 100 other cameras from every major sports and news publication. The really prime spots showing the finish line had been spoken for before dawn and assistants were camped out protecting their turf. Since I didn’t have to have the classic finish shot I was able to find a place to attach my camera that would give me a view of the two steeples.

An assignment on Montreal for an in-flight magazine.

I spent 10 days in Santa Fe shooting this article for Travel & Leisure.

An industrial photo for Laughlin Steel. This one shot of a conveyor belt took a full day to setup, light and execute. High-powered strobes were hung from overhead girders to get enough light to give me the depth needed. The shot ran as a three fold 11″ x 25″ brochure.

Another industrial shot as part of an annual report for Quanex. This cover shot was of the reflections off of the edge of a huge roll of aluminum. It’s the kind of shot that I always like and that clients enjoy because they don’t see these beautiful little details in their factories. That’s why they hire photographers! This was shot on daylight balanced film (yup, we had to choose) so the fluorescents would give the green reflections in the metal. I added a tungsten fixture to provide the contrasting warm highlights.

An industrial assignment in Kavala, Greece for Fluor Corporation to shoot the first off shore oil platform in the Aegean Sea. This happens to be the city my father was born in.

This is a self-promotion calendar of Greece I did called “Pictures from Home”. The layout was done by a designer in Dallas, the printing was done by Dai Nippon in Japan.

This is Epitas, a progressive rock band here in Dallas. I shot their first CD cover and some promotional material in 2008.