THE STORY OF CHERIEFOTO
If you really want to know who Cheriefoto is here is the short version. This quote came to us through Richard Avedon (his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century). I feel this quote sums up how we feel about the art of photography and what we do and how obsessed, crazy and happy we are about the world of photography and making iconic images for our clients.
MEET THE TEAM
CHERIE STEINBERG
Cheriefoto, are 2 prestigious Beverly Hills/Las Vegas photo studios, that have taken amazing photographs of children, weddings, bar mitzvahs and classy boudoir for 20 years. Cherie Steinberg, owner and lead photographer, entered the world of photography following a photography class at a university. “I fell in love with the darkroom & the camera,” Cherie was studying fine art, but photography seemed to be a great extension of what I was doing. Shortly after, I became an apprentice in a photo studio. “Photography is a beautiful art form....and I just love beautiful things,” With Cherie’s love for photography along with her partner Hedley Jones, and their three assisting photographers, Cheriefoto has a knack for creating beautiful synergy resulting in beautiful imagery. Cherie has been a Nikon favorite and was asked to shoot the brochure for the D700, The wanted a woman to shoot this brochure for the first time and after scouring the world.
HEDLEY JONES
Hedley Jones is an experienced multi-media professional with an impressive array of creative credentials ranging from traditional broadcasting to digital music and photography.
He has been the recipient of several Black Music Awards in Toronto. Over the years, he has earned an enviable reputation as a true musical innovator and a genial radio personality with cross-generational appeal.
His roots are embedded in the world of music having started as a musician {drums} in Jamaica, in his teens. It was there that he helped his father Hedley Jones Sr. who designed and built one of the most famous studios in Jamaica "Studio One" for Clement Dodd aka "Coxone Downbeat" who helped to create the reggae beat back in the 60's, where Bob Marley recorded many of the groups early hits. He was also audio engineer on some of early Bob Marley and The Wailers recordings.
LARA SOLOMAN
Lara is an internationally recognized Las Vegas-based photographer, published by Men’s Fitness, Modern Luxury and The Smithsonian. Born in a youth hostel, she has emerged onto the visual plateau mentored by her industry heroes, such as Joyce Tenneson, James Hickey and James Porto. She has worked and exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Solomon also has a growing humanitarian profile. She has worked with Sustainable Harvest International in Central America. As an Anthropology graduate of Appalachian State University’s her trademark straight-shooter approach is most authentic and very down to earth and likable.
AURELIE SUZANNE
Suzanne is a web designer and webmaster, writer, and multimedia artist. As a graphics designer, she has spent years mastering the most sophisticated of retouching techniques, as she’s passionate about the experience women have of themselves and how they experience their photographs. Boudoir photography is a real art form, and how a woman allows the camera to capture her is all about the team she has around her. The team at The Boudoir Café is second to none. Courageous personal expression is what they invoke thanks to years of experience and a sensitivity to women’s personal sensitivities and more private forms of expression. Confidence felt during the shoot then stays with Boudoir Café clients long past the photoshoot itself. Suzanne is devoted to empowering women to recognize their own particular brand of beauty as well as their willingness to celebrate it . Suzanne’s role on the team is outreach marketing, promotions, and artwork development.
OUR STORY
This website is a labor of love and showing our images to you is our greatest joy. This website is about love, creativity, excitement and life. Not only do we shoot people and things that we love we shoot life, memories and the comedy of it all. We love what we do I know so cliche but how else can I say it. We are crazed photographers that are so passionate about this art form called photography we are kind of obsessed actually living and breathing the ideas and techniques that will fill our next photo shoot and how to be better photographers and people, how to make that next image even greater, how we can explore a new and exciting angle, invent something that no one else has thought of, how we can make our Bride look ohhhh so amazing or our Boudoir subject's lighting look over the top dreamy. We welcome you to see the efforts of the last few years of all the ideas, weddings, family shoots, animals portraits, kids pictures, flower art shots, fashion photo shoots and corporate commercial photography that we have done and loved them all. We are artists that love a challenge and love something new. The crazier the idea, well we are your photographers. We shoot IDEAS. We cannot be labeled as any one type of photographer we love to experiment to much for that....Therefore we have new and interesting ideas and visions for all the many projects that come across our screens…We love our clients which is why we really feel a bond with our people and the experience of shooting their wedding, portrait or project is not just a photo job. It is an experience and usually such an experience that we bond not just for the time of the shoot but really we become family. This kind of time together is really a profound time. Whether we are shooting a wedding, making heirlooms for families which what could be a better job or we are dong a campaign for a company that is showing their products that they have put their heart and soul into it is a special "bubble of love" that we get into together to create images that are forever cherished. We travel back and forth from LA to Las Vegas. Clients come from all over the world to see us and we thrive on giving those and all people that hire us an experience of pampering and a day they will never forget whether it is a wedding or any other kind of shoot.
Weddings.....We have the best team in the biz...and can cover any wedding....Just ask us....We are eager to hear about your wedding, ideas and suggest how we can help...Or if you need ideas....we are full of them!!! We can cover the wedding from Photography to Video and have a book for Brides about how to get the iconic wedding images you really want!!
Our work has appeared in many magazines worldwide some of which include:
Nikon World
Digital Photo Pro Magazine
Rangefinder Magazine
Los Angeles Magazine
Los Angeles Wedding Magazine
Your Wedding Day
Arsenic
Orange County Wedding Magazine
Bride & Bloom
Los Angeles Weddings
Studio Design & Photography
Style Me Pretty
Towne & Country
California Wedding Magazine
Distinctive Magazine
Little Black Book
Digital Photo Pro
90210 Magazine
5280 Magazine
Professional Photographers
Palm Springs Life
Rangefinder Magazine