just loomis
Just Loomis starting taking pictures on the streets in Reno, Nevada in 1975.
He worked in New York for 10 years for clients, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, Vogue and the New York Times magazine.
His Warner Brothers album cover Hunting High and Low for the band AHA was nominated for a Grammy Award.
He was a longtime assistant to Helmut Newton
In 1995 he dedicated his efforts on documentary portraiture which resulted in the book As We Are a book of American portraits published in Berlin by Hatje Cantz, 2010 nominated for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis and the winner of the Photography Book prize at Communication Arts.
Just Loomis published Rausch Und Kontrolle: Loomis photographs Castorf, with the Volksbuhne Theater in Berlin. This project was exhibited in the foyer of the theater in 2017.
Loomis’ book Backstage published by Hatje Cantz was shortlisted for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis and was exhibited at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. The book was awarded the First Place Photography Prize at the New York Bookshow in 2019.
He continues to work in Los Angeles and Berlin.
His current projects are street portraits in Los Angeles and portraits of Berlin actors.
Email: justloom@gmail.com
+ 1 310 560 8096
Exhibitions:
November 2024, Players Portraits, Klick Kino, Berlin
June 2023, LA Street Portraits, Mercy Gallery, Windsor Connecticut
May 2022, Faust, Brewery Los Angeles
June 2019, Three Boys from Pasadena, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin http://www.helmutnewton.com/
March 2017, Solo, Rausch und Kontrolle, Volksbuhne, Berlin http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
November 2013, Solo, Women, Hiltawsky Gallery, Berlin http://www.hiltawsky.com
October 2012, Three Boys, Eyeloco Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, http://www.eyeloco.eu/index.php/en/
June 2012, Three Boys, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College, Pasadena http://www.artcenter.edu/williamson/
April 2012, Three Boys, Art Cologne http://www.artcologne.com/en/artcologne/home/index.php
March 2012, Three Boys, Kaune Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne http://www.ks-contemporary.com/
April 2011, Solo, As We Are, Aha, Hiltawsky Gallery, Berlin http://www.hiltawsky.com/
Feb 2011, Solo, As We Are, Stenersen Museum, Oslo http://www.stenersen.museum.no/en/index.htm
December 2010, Three Boys, Clic Gallery/Bookstore, New York http://www.clicgallery.com/
June 2010, Three Boys, Acte2 Gallery, Paris http://www.acte2photo.com/
June 2009, Three Boys, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin http://www.helmutnewton.com/
May 2009, Solo, Walk Away, Lincoln Center, New York