Spencer Vs. The World

the man himself.

Spencer Wohlrab is a photographer based in New York who has quickly become one of my favourites this year.

I stumbled across him whilst looking through Ryan McGinley's work and finding him mention that his intern, Chad Moore, was also an aspiring photographer and then I found that he just so happened to be friends with Spencer. So I manged to kill three birds with one stone! Lucky eh? Soooo anyway... Spencer's work is pretty much all on film, capturing the candid moments of youth living in New York. He pretty much documents his life through photography, by that of a photo journal he has on his site where you are constantly bombarded with pictures of him and his friends partying, drinking and getting up to all sorts of crazy things in the city. You can have a flick through his journal on his website, but I'd set aside a few hours to do so if I were you, he leaves no stone left unturned with nearly every other day for the past two years having been documented!

an example of his documentation, a snowball fight in New York's winter.

He doesn't just photograph his own life however, oh no, Spencer has recently photographed campaigns for the likes of MARC JACOBS, awesome huh? He has also photographed for Ksenia & Ash, as well as having a portfolio filled with beautiful models that he has shot and even has published his own photo book which included these hauntingly beautiful scenes he took in Iceland.

the Marc Jacobs campaign.

from his book, Iceland.

Having already published one book, he is now working on another which will be a compilation of photos of and pertaining to his New York experience. It promises to be full of tragedy, heartbreak, and remorse and I personally cannot wait to order my own copy!

I highly recommed checking his work out and, if you happen to find you love it as much as me, you can keep up to date with his latest projects and partying habits via his twitter. I follow him and he has some pretty cool tweets, plus he followed me back so now I'm swooning. Yeah I know, I said swooning, I don't care. I am.



Alexandra- from his portfolio.



'Photography is all about memories to me, but I like how its easy to alter or change those memories by how you choose to view them.' - Spencer Wohlrab