User:Erinkatz/Chloe Aftel

Chloe Aftel is an American photographer and director based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, & New York.

Biography/Early Life
Aftel was born in Berkeley, California on July 6th, 1980.

Aftel has a Bachelor’s degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography and Film/Video Production from the University of Southern California.

After USC, Aftel managed a film production company in New York before running American photographer, Peggy Sirota’s studio in Los Angeles for two years before opening her own studio.

Style
Aftel has an individual style in fashion, commercial, editorial, lifestyle, among many other genres of work.

Working with film, polaroid,

Cinemagraphs

Clients
Aftel has shot editorials for Billboard, Chicago Tribune, Dwell, Elle The Hollywood Reporter, Harper's Bazaar Australia, Latina, Marie Claire, New York Magazine/In The Cut, Nylon, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italy, Vogue Russia, Wired, Wall Street Journal

Aftel’s commercial clients include Cannon, Levi’s, Google, Pact, Intuit, MasterCard, Verizon, Sprint, Motorola, Neiman-Marcus, Nintendo,

4AD, Ban.do, Bust,, Dazed & Confused, Draft FCB, Enso, Fleishman-Hillard, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, Interscope, Intuit,, Lula,, McCann, Merge Records, O'Neill, Pact, R/GA, Rubin Postaer and Associates, Seaworld, Siegel + Gale, Subpop Records,

Personal Projects
Genderqueer Aftel's project introduces viewers to the real faces and stories of gender fluid, bi-gender and agender teens and adults.

Awards
Aftel has won awards for her photography and short film including International Photography Awards, Fuji Student Photographer of the Year, American Photo, PDN 30, and Boston International Film Festival.