John Lavin

Q&A - John Lavin

In case anybody was wondering…

  • Soundtrack of your life: Dawes, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls & kd lang (lately)

  • Coffee order: no order, just a Keurig cup of black with a few ice cubes every morning

  • Cocktail order: tequila soda, no lime

  • We’ll never catch you without: my over analyzing mind doing somersaults 

  • Guilty pleasure: Drag Race and its many spinoffs

  • Style icons: Montgomery Clift, Little Richard

  • Favorite designer: whoever makes colorful Hawaiian shirts, I guess

  • You’ll never get sick of: fried catfish

  • Your current state of mind: keeping calm and carrying on

  • Favorite place to travel: NYC

  • Where you’d most like to live: Big Island, Hawaii or mountain in TN

  • On your nightstand: monstera plant in a vase and stack of books I mean to read

  • Your greatest extravagance: a room with a view; I like to see out

  • Most treasured possession: whatever new handmade art I’ve gotten from mom or nieces/nephews

  • Talent you’d most like to have: the discipline to sit down and write for long periods

  • Most overused word or phrase: oh my god

2020 Reel

Always an interesting, humbling, entertaining and nostalgic thing to do… rifle through all of the footage I’ve shot over the last couple of years. It’s certainly been a wild few years traveling around the country to shoot music festivals, museums, large gatherings of people… all a relic of the past, for now. Lucky to direct a few music videos each year to keep those creative juices flowing and happy to help out on as many non-profit videos as I can.

Portraits

Been expanding the photography side of business, especially into portraits. I guess the best way to categorize them is creative business headshots. Not stuffy and stiff, but something that captures the personality of the subject during the session.

Have gear, will travel - 2

My job has allowed me to go to some incredible places and meet some wild people. Here I am shooting on the unfinished 65th floor of a tower on 42nd Street in Manhattan, with Bob Sapp in Tokyo, in Jingdezhen China and in Key West.

Have gear, will travel

Work has taken me all over the country, even the world, and some of the most fun shoots are at the huge sporting and music events I’d never have access to otherwise like College Football Playoff and NHL All Stars, Essence Festival and Voodoo Festival. I try to grab a selfie at each of them.

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