Light My Life

666photography is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in retro/vintage photography that utilizes hand-made props and costumes. For many years, we have been creating old-school theater style sets for our long list of happy customers. There is no concept that you can throw at 666 that we can’t create! Our approach to taking photos is that, for us, it is not enough to simply be able to take a good photo. We pride ourselves in being able to create an entire concept from beginning to end. Our props are handmade, our backdrops are handpainted, and if we can’t find the perfect costume, we make it! 666photography is lead by its photographer, Gayla. Gayla graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a BFA in photography. She not only takes all the photos, she also handmakes the costumes and accessories and the props, and is responsible for most of the styling in all photos. We also work with makeup artist Lisa Naeyaert, who is a genius. Recently, we have added an addition to our team, Steph, who assists Gayla with prop making duties. If you have been looking for a photographer who can take an idea, and realize it into a work of art, 666photography is the company for you. Please contact us for a list of rates and our availability. We are consistently booked 4 months in advance, so contact us so we can get you in our schedule!

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I was born in the town of Yachroma nearby Moscow. This is a place on a hill, from which a perspective reminding Brueghel paintings opens.The crossed landscape with significant differences of heights, channel between the rivers Moscow and Volga, small rivers and springs, woods, fields and villages, the railway, an ancient town Dmitrov in the neighbourhood, ships going along the channel and trains overtaking them, and so on and so on… - all this I saw through a window of my house since my birth. The view was like a picture, which includes all the variety of the world. So I can say that for my inspiration impressions of my childhood and youths - beautiful nature and the non-ordinary people which surrounded me, are more important. In a museum of Spaso-Andronikov monastery, Moscow, I copied the best samples of Old Russian paintings of the 15 - 17 centuries. At the same time I worked on my own paintings. By this period I had finally created my individual technique, which was founded on combination of methods of the Russian medieval icon painting, the 18th century Russian painting, composition methods of art group «WORLD OF ART» («MIR ISKUSSTVA») and the Russian constructivism. Following the artists of the past, I work with hand-made colors and use natural pigments ground with the egg yolk.

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Born in the North of England, Chris grew up in the seaside town of Scarborough. He attended the University of Northumbria in Newcastle where he gained a degree in Media Production, specialising in Animation and Character design. Chris now works as a full time illustrator, His work has been featured in numerous publications and media, worldwide. In Addition to his personal work, Chris is also a member of the multidisciplinary collective Anti alongside James Bastiman Chris is currently represented By Illustration Ltd. Clients include Coca Cola, Total Guitar Magazine, Oxford University Press, SPUK, Boxfresh clothing,F1/Marboro, Little White Lies Magazine, Computer Music Magazine, Saturday Times Metro, Peugeot, Shell , Graniph (Japan), Studio Comx (Tel Aviv), Umbro, Rockpile Magazine, ilove4play.org, Filofax ltd, The Academy Of Contemporary Music, EBay…….

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Jennifer Coates’ vividly colored, metaphysical paintings utilize the conventions of landscape as an anchor for hallucinatory visions that reference the mind and the body simultaneously. Expanses of sky or sea coalesce into pools of thought-like reflection; clouds of geometry warp into an ecstatic vortex; horizons fissure and swell like skin; and intricate vines tangle into knots of energized ganglia. Coates contrasts an atmospheric radiance with meticulous detail, iconic directness with allusive abstraction. Varied painterly approaches are positioned against each other to create a disjunctive but idealistic experience of place. Coates (b. 1973) lives and works in New York City, where she has exhibited frequently, with this being her second solo exhibition. She teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and often writes on art.

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Two Trees (detail), 2006, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches

Creeper, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

Creeper (detail), 2006, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

Undergrowth, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

Folding Sky, 2004, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

Softwall, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

Softwall (detail), 2006, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

Clipper, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Clipper (detail), 2007, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches