User:Artoflove/Tanya Chalkin

Life and Career
Tanya Chalkin, is an English Photographer and image maker, living in London.

She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and did a Photography degree at The London College Of Printing when she was 20.

Tanya began to shoot for music magazines such as MixMag and Ministry magazine.

She has also had Fashion and Portrait work published in magazines such as Dazed & Confused, Arena Hommes Plus, Esquire, FHM Collections, and newspapers such as the Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Independent.

Tanya featured in the hit Channel Four TV show Model Behaviour.

She is widely known for her iconic and famous poster image "KISS" which was created in 2001. Most recently Kiss was seen in the movie "Scott Pilgrim Verses The world".

Other poster images in her range include, "Sleeping Beauties", "Sirens", "Bottom" "Born To Ride", "Sixty Nine"and in 2008, Tanya teamed up with Triumph Motorcycles to create a calendar and posters of their bikes. In 2010 Tanya brought out a calendar of lingerie girls entitled "Secrets" Posters from this include"Secret Kiss", "Girls", "Beauty", "Red Hot" and "Midnight Girl".

Tanya worked with PETA on a "Fur Is A Drag" Campaign featuring Jodie Harsh.

Tanya shot the Universal album "Faryl" (Faryl Smith), and Warner Entertainment album "Patrizio" (Patrizio Buanne)

Amongst others Tanya has photographed Jamie Cullum, Katherine Jenkins, Glen Johnson, Jodie Harsh, Jamie Dornan, Dawn French, Isabella Blow

In 2010 Tanya's work was displayed along side Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman as well as many other photography greats at the Monaco Musuem in the "Mirrors of The Magic Muse" exhibition.

One of her new images "London 2012" is an official LOCOG, Olympic, London 2012 merchandising poster.