Photography as an art form is integral to the way President’s sees the world: decisive moments make history and perspective is everything. Each season President’s selects one artist whose work embodies our values of independence, irreverence, and classic style. Together, we select one iconic image from their archives to represent the collection in our print campaign.
Autumn Winter 2018 – Stephen Shames
Spring Summer 2018 – Nacio Jan Brown
Autumn Winter 2017-18 – Cheryl Dunn
Cheryl Dunn is an American photographer and filmmaker based in New York City where a large part of her career has been spent documenting alternative urban and youth culture, capturing artists, boxers, skaters, bikers, protesters and graffiti writers. Her work, has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the The Tate Modern, Deitch Projects, Geffen Contemporary MOCA and her films has played at several international film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and Hot Docs International Documentary Festival in Toronto. The photo chosen for the President’s Autumn Winter 2017-18 campaign was shot in 1997 in New Jersey, in the locker room of Shannon Briggs.
Spring Summer 2017 – Aaron Stern
Aaron Stern is an American artist and author who lives and works in New York City. His photographs, poetry, books and curatorial projects have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, Interview and many others. Aaron’s image chosen to represent President’s SS17 collection was taken from his most recent monograph, Horizon Avenue, and is a moment of unexpected beauty nearby busy Newark Liberty Airport.
Autumn-Winter 2016-17 – Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini is a young Italian-American photojournalist whose work in conflict zones has garnered international esteem. He has worked in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, and is a graduate of Parsons in New York City. His campaign image, Malecon at Dawn, was shot in Havana.
Spring Summer 2016 – Alessandro Simonetti
Alessandro Simonetti is an Italian multimedia artist whose work walks the line between fine art and photojournalism, and he is especially well-regarded for his documentation of subcultures around the world. His campaign image, Kid playing handball, L.A. 2006, is an iconic black and white photograph of a boy playing handball in Venice Beach, California, shot almost exactly one decade ago.
Autumn Winter 2015-16 – Tag Christof
Tag Christof is an American artist whose documentary photography focuses on economic and cultural change in the United States. His campaign image, New Mexico, 2015, is a shot of his old Pontiac being fueled up at a roadside station just off Route 66.