One of my images from Metro Magazine’s Fashion Fight Night III. My record is now 3-0! My very talented team consisted of: clothes stylist Richard Anderson, makeup artist Rhonda Jackson, hair stylist Anthony Lickteig, and our amazing model Kevin Walker! My photo assistants were Lucas Weisman, Jules Ameel, and John Fontana.
Fashion Fight Night III is part show, part competition. Metro asked 6 photographers to go ‘head to head’ in a fashion shoot out, with the winner of each bout getting bragging rights and a plastic costume title belt that says “Champion” on it.
The event is held at Uppercut Boxing gym in Northeast Mpls. It’s an actual working boxing gym with 2 olympic sized boxing rings inside. There are three matches throughout the evening, and in each match 2 photographers compete against each other. The matches are arranged like this:
1) One team(photographer, stylists and model) go to the red ring. The other team goes to the blue ring.
2)When the bell rings, the teams simultaneously photograph their model for 3 minutes. When the time is up, the teams have 5 minutes to change the model’s clothes, hair and makeup.
3)Another round of photography for 3 minutes, then 5 minutes to change again.
4)One last round of photography for 3 minutes, and that’s it! We’re done!
Images are photographed digitally and are projected onto a big screen for the audience to see in between rounds. Once the match is over(it takes just under 20 minutes), both teams meet in the blue ring, the judges scores are tallied, and a winner is announced!
Here’s a link to a review of the event with some photos shot during the action: