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Jason Schmidt

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Photographer & Director. Artists and Artists II published by Steidl. Moving pictures @cottage8films

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It’s out! You can head over to The New Yorker to watch our documentary short THE CANDY FACTORY (link in bio).

Our protagonist Ann Ballentine showed us what’s possible when one isn’t motivated by money, but instead by a little bit of magic. This film was an excuse to connect with our subjects, but Ann taught us you don’t need an excuse. You just need to trust your instincts, make stuff, and surround yourself with people you love.

A giant thank you to EP @paulmoakley @newyorkermag for giving us critical notes and for releasing this film to such a large and generous audience. It’s been amazing to watch everyone fall in love with Ann and her tenants, just like we did. And thanks also to @kate_emerson @newyorkermag for this terrific trailer.

Infinite praying hand emoji to our subjects (stand by for more details on all of them), the festival programmers, and our trusted collaborators:
Editor @grahambomason
Cinematographer @drewenglishh
Composer @adamlouisschatz
Additional music @abbsman + @tothtunes
Sound recording @matteolibb
Re-recording mix Charlie Keating
Titles (and so much more) @keiraalexandra
Color @shawnkingcolor @honestlaborcolor
💜 taken in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn by @jasonschmidtstudio

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a year ago

Thank you @peter_schlesinger—I couldn't have enjoyed my time with you more! And thank you @tmagazine and @nickkharamis who says it all better than I can:

When the painter and ceramist Peter Schlesinger and his husband, the photographer Eric Boman, moved into a rundown house in East Patchogue, N.Y., in 1982, that stretch of southern Long Island had already become a weekend destination for a small group of New York artists and media types — especially people like Schlesinger, who considered the Hamptons, about an hour’s drive to the east, a little “vulgar.”

For as long as he can remember, Schlesinger was part of a duo. (His relationship with David Hockney in the 1960 and ’70s has been well documented.) Since Boman’s death in 2022, their beautiful, weathered home — the result of decades of work and commitment — has remained largely unchanged, a tribute to the life they built together. by @jasonschmidtstudio

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14 days ago

La Maestra @murielbrandolini !

Thank you 🙏 @amyastley @michaelshome @archdigest @martinbourne by @jasonschmidtstudio

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As you can see, I'm so delighted to be included in the Wallpaper* US400! Thank you so much @michaelreynoldsnyc @billprinceinc @wallpapermag by @jasonschmidtstudio

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3 months ago

Five years in the making, we were so happy to premiere our documentary short SEA GROUP featuring artist Dana Schutz last night @ifccenter in New York City.

Thank you to Dana and Ryan 💗

Thank you to everyone @davidzwirner for hosting the night.

The film is about a lot of things to us, but collaboration is one of them. It also happens to be the best part of making a film. Thank you to these people whose fingerprints are in every frame, along with the incomparable Dana Schutz.

Director @jasonschmidtstudio
Producer @cottage8films
EP @ryanjohnsonstudio
Cinematographer @kayhl
Editor @grahambomason
AE @finestworksong
Sound Design and Re-Recording Mix @matthewmastmusic
Color @shawnkingcolor @honestlaborcolor
Music ___j_foerster @n__kramer @ceellliiiia @penguincafe_official
Poster Design Andy Goldman

p.s. We’ll be back to let you know when you can see it too. taken in IFC Center by @jasonschmidtstudio

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4 months ago

I've been taking pictures of artists at the Venice Biennale since 2001, which is now somehow 25 years ago! Leaving tonight for the 2026 edition, but first, some favorites through the years... taken in Venice, Italy by @jasonschmidtstudio

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5 months ago

Yana Peel, President of Arts, Culture & Heritage @chanelofficial in honor of her inclusion in@cultured_mag CULT100! @yanapeel walks the walk, supporting artists like nobody’s business.

We also only just realized that I photographed her, oh, just 18 years ago with some other art world movers and shakers: artist @lindersterling, curators @stuartcomer and @e_m_neilson and gallerist @stuartshavemodernart in London for @britishvogue. Time is liquid these days!

(Thanks for the BTS @emma_lcq !) taken in New York, New York by @jasonschmidtstudio

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Huge congrats to Carol Bove on her first museum survey filling up the rotunda at the @guggenheim with her monumental work! Here is my latest studio visit with her in honor of the exhibition and her inclusion in @cultured_mag CULT100. Scroll further to see my other Carol portraits through the years. Yes, I’m a completist. taken in Red Hook Brooklyn by @jasonschmidtstudio

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6 months ago

Women wore pants! Dalí made paintings! Dream job to shoot at La Pausa after @petermarinoarchitect restored the villa to its 1935 glory. Thank you @chanelofficial !!! 🤍🤍🤍

@cottage8films
President of Arts, Culture & Heritage @yanapeel
Head of Content Strategy and Production @emma_lcq
Head of Heritage Sites Hélène Fulgence
Responsable Production Arts, Culture & Communications Julie Pinon
Responsable Production Arts, Culture & Communications @roselstevenson
Directrice @roscoproduction Paris @margaux_dsp
Line Producer, Rosco Paris @lidwinechudy
1st AD @pim.caloni
Director of Photography @chrisclarkedop
1st AC @samuel35mm
Set Designer @manon_everhard
Post Production @nightshiftparis
Post Producer @pauline_sang
Editor Roxane Fauré-Huet @roxanehhh
Music, sound design + mix @edgardelambre @8__represent
Color @lauregoyer.colorist
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Archival shots:
- Gabrielle Chanel in her olive tree in the cloister at La Pausa, 1938 with François Hugo, Pierre Colle, Audrey James Field, Maria Ruspoli-Hugo. Photo Roger Schall © Schall Collection
- Salvador Dalí at La Pausa in the 1930s. Photograph: Photo Wolfgang Vennemann © Fundació Gala–Salvador Dalí © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala–Salvador Dalí/ADAGP, Paris 2025 taken in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin by @jasonschmidtstudio

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"I wanted to paint a painting inside the painting with me painting it.” —Lisa Yuskavage

Love when multiple studio visits turn into a Russian doll situation! Grateful to @phaidonpress for sending me back to shoot Lisa and her studio for her excellent new monograph. Congrats @lisayuskavage! taken in Brooklyn by @jasonschmidtstudio

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7 months ago

ARTEFIERA BOLOGNA 2026
BOOTH A27 | HALL 25

NOW ON VIEW
Open to the public: 6-8 February 2026

Focus: Jason Schmidt

At Artefiera, in the “Fotografia e Dintori” section, curated by Marta Papini (@marta_papini), the gallery was invited to present a selection of photographs from Jason Schmidt’s 'Artists' series, an ambitious project started in 1995 to map the most significant international contemporary artists of today’s art scene. The corpus, now comprising over 800 images, portrays artists in their studios, alongside works in progress or in environments familiar to them, offering a close and intimate insight into the creative processes that precede the finished work.

For her portrait, taken in her New York studio on 16 September 2011, Cindy Sherman is pictured in front of a series of shelves displaying numerous masks and heads—objects the artist began collecting in the 1980s, when she started using prosthetics and other artificial body parts in her work.
As the artist said, "I don't like having other people take my photo because I never know what to do with myself, and they never know what to do with me. I'm aware that other photographers are slightly intimidated by shooting me, and I can see the challenge. I don't know how to do it any better, unless I'm posing in "character.”

Images: Cindy Sherman; Thomas Demand; Laurie Simmons
William Eggleston; Adam Fuss; Roni Horn; Andreas Gursky; Roe Ethridge; Victoria Sambunaris

@jasonschmidtstudio
#cindysherman
#apalazzogallery by @jasonschmidtstudio

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8 months ago

Jonas Mekas
December 6, 2003
"Most of what I do in my life is diaristic, which means improvised on the spot. Like this picture. It made no sense to take a picture indoors when there was this beautiful snowstorm going on outside. I’m in a parking lot next door to my studio, one of the graffiti artists’ favored spots. My work for the upcoming Whitney Biennial? Even at the moment this picture is being taken, or rather, that I am typing this note, I do not yet know what I’ll show at the Whitney. I will improvise and decide at the last minute. That’s how I live and that’s how I work. No advance plans. That makes life (if not art) more interesting, as Buddha once said." by @jasonschmidtstudio

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