Content: Entertainment

I spent a year as the editor-in-chief of the now-defunct LGBT entertainment magazine HX for Her. Prior to my arrival, the bi-weekly magazine focused on clubs and nightlife. I wanted to increase credibility and readership by creating a fuller, well-rounded magazine.

GOAL: Create a must-read guide to life for New York City women.    

FINAL OUTCOME: Although I continued to cover entertainment and local celebrities, I also added content on culture and wellness in order to appeal to a more diverse set of readers and a larger advertiser base.

Katrina del Mar: Shoot to Thrill

After opening her first solo gallery show, Katrina del Mar is exhausted and spends a lot of time in the comfort of her East Village apartment, which is adorned with her own photos, art books and a Barbie-as-the-devil clock. However, she still manages to to exhibit enthusiasm when she talks about her show.
"The show was about the relationship I've been seeing develop around me between people who come together and become family. I call it 'Pseudo-kin'," says the sexy 31 year old, who then immediately starts quoting a Percy Shelley poem. 
"But the show's counter theme was the the calendar girl pin-up shots where I made these heroic, powerful women into glamour girls, but not in a devaluing way."
The show was a collection of work from the past two years and managed to clearly exhibit her growth as a photographer.
"I'm mostly self-taught and when I first started I didn't really know about exposures or any of the technical aspects," del Mar says. "I would be too excited about a subject and I would just shoot. I would take a ton of pictures and usually I was lucky enough to get a few that turned out."
Now, however, she's dedicated to trying to make a living as a photgrapher and learning more about the technical aspect of her art. It's apparent with her newer works in the exhibit, some of which were only taken a few weeks before the show's opening.
Del Mar took up photography as a teenager living in New Jersey, just for fun. She would venture out on weekend nights and photograph the North Jersey punk people, as she describes them with a chuckle - rock 'n roll kids, musicians and artists. 
Even though del Mar thought her work was good, she abandoned it when she went to college to study German. But it was photography that she kept returning to, and eventually she realized it should be her life's work.
She's gone from shooting Lunachicks and Karen Black rock shows and film stills for Nick Zedd to commercial photo shoots for D-Generation's new CD and magazines such as Index, POPsmear and British glossyMinx. Now, del Mar is trying to get more commercial work as both a fashion and portrait photographer.
In the meantime, she is capturing her often bizarre dreams and brazen ideas on film - like drag queen Miss Guy as a carnival magician at dusk.
"My inspiration is what I see and what I think up," says the artist. "Sometimes I just see something and I grab my camera."