Hope you can make it!

EMILY SHUR traveled to Miami to photograph JERSEY SHORE 2 for MTV – check it out HERE. She also shot the band, Shel, for packaging and publicity (Universal Music). Between those projects, she managed to shoot Adam McKay for MAXIM, the new Facebook offices for TIME MAGAZINE, Molly Ringwald and Rashida Jones for BUST, Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia CEO) for INC. MAGAZINE, Gary Fisher for THE RED BULLETIN, Eva Longoria for the cover of L’OPTIMUM, Joel McHale for both GOLF MAGAZINE and MEN’S JOURNAL, and Chaske Spencer for PEOPLE MAGAZINE. Emily also worked with the kind folks at Ogilvy & Mather on an upcoming campaign for Sara Lee.

With The Lucie Foundation!  At Space1520!  Next Thursday (sorry, no fun link)!

Emily Shur’s project, Nature Calls was featured in this month’s LA Times Magazine.  Read the full story HERE.

This Friday, April 30th, marks the end of MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) and what better way to say goodbye to an amazing month of programs and exhibitions than an opening at THIS?  THIS is hosting the Transplants show- photographers who are not from, but currently reside in Los Angeles- which includes Giant’s own Jeremy & Claire Weiss and Emily Shur.

Please join us for good art and free booze Friday from 7-10pm!

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Lucky number 13!  We’re very excited to announce that Emily’s work is included in Issue 13 of Fraction Magazine.  This is the first time she has presented this particular edit of 20 images!  You can read a small statement about the pictures she’s been taking in Japan and also an interview with Emily (about this work) by Larissa Leclair.

This Saturday night we are having a closing party for our inaugural show here at THIS.  Please come out and see the art, have a drink, talk to friends and meet some new ones.  If you buy some art you can take it home with you! Artwork from over 100 artists including Giant Artists Lauren Dukoff, Emily Shur, RJ Shaughnessy, Aaron Ruell, Jeremy and Claire, and Blake E. Marquis.  See you there!

We are pleased to announce photographer EMILY SHUR has joined the Giant Artists Family!  Check her out here.  We love her flawless eye for light, color and composition and her mix of bright, often humorous, portraits and landscapes.  Whether shooting a well-known celebrity or an inanimate object, Emily infuses her subjects with importance, humor and a singular point-of-view.  Her work has been featured in Communication Arts (2005) and selected for publication in American Photography 22, 24 and 25 (2006, 2008 and 2009).  In 2005, Emily was selected as a winner in The Art Director’s Club Young Guns global competition.  In 2008, she was honored to have an image in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.  In 2009, Emily was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in Review Santa Fe, and this year her work will be included in Humble Art’s 31 Women in Art Photography exhibition.

Today, Emily lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their dog, The Baroness, in a 105 year-old house in Echo Park.