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Emin Kadi

Emin Kadi is a fashion photographer, journalist, art director and magazine publisher. Born in Detroit (first-generation Albanian), he studied architecture and later became a fashion model. Emin later became a self-taught fashion photographer. He is the founder, creative director, contributing photographer and publisher of Clear Magazine.[1] He also started an image branding and app development company called Dfiant Media.


Photography

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In 1990 Emin Kadi decided to pursue fashion photography. This decision came as a result of being influenced by fashion through his previous modeling career. His work can bee seen in both fashion magazines and campaigns including being published in Italian Vogue, Prim, WestEast magazine, PDN, Dwell, Picture, and is currently a regular contributor to Clear. He has worked with top models in the fashion industry such as Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepool, May Anderson, Madeleine Blomberg, Tori Praver, Anna Claudia, Tiiu Kuik, Elyse Taylor, J.P, Nik, Eugenia, Juliana Martins, Yasmin Brunet and Ajuma Nasenyana.[2]

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Clear Magazine

Emin founded Clear Magazine in 2001 as an international magazine focusing on fashion, design, art and luxury.[3] Since inception Clear has published 34 printed issues and two purely digital issues for iPad.[4] Adobe Systems Inc. has used these interactive digital issues as an ultimate sample. In 2011, Adobe used the first digital issue for the launch of their CreativeSuite version 5.5 campaign.[5]


Art Direction/Creative Projects

As acting creative director, Emin has collaborated on various works published in Clear magazine with artists that include, Philippe Starck, Stuart Haygarth, Dennis Hopper, James Turrell, Andrée Putman, Marcel Duchamp, Takashi Murakami, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ross Lovegrove, Ron Arad, Karim Rashid, Yves Béhar, Arne Quinze, the Campana brothers and Marcel Wanders.[6] Special projects include visual treatments for the Warner Brothers Network, art direction, photography and custom publishing of 4c Magazine for AkzoNobel, and MagneCote.

Journalism

Emin Kadi’s published interviews include Dennis Hopper, Takashi Murikami, Ron Arad, Tokujin Yoshioka, Kevin Huang, Jason Schwartzman, Victor Müller, Shiro Nakamura, Todd Bracher, Dror Benshetrit and Nicolas Roldan.[7]

Lectures

Future Midwest, Design Boom, College for Creative Studies(CCS) group photography lectures with Karen Rashid, Cranbrook Academy of Art, HOW conference and Design Indaba.

Awards

Graphis Design Annual 2010 Gold Award

References