Cara Bloch
I work in Miami, United States
Tall as a Viking and with a sense of humor to match Will Farrell’s, Miami-born New York City babe Cara Bloch’s photographic images of rockstars have appeared in many of the most important music and culture magazines including NME, Spin, The Wire, Punk Planet, Blender, Vibe, Adbusters, Q, Ocean Drive… She has also done work for many of the most important music industry corporations and organizations including MTV, Universal Music, Geffen, Sony and Rock the Vote. Though her commercial career is in full bloom, Cara also has a fierce critical eye and her fine art photography has shown twice in New York City at the prestigious International Centre of Photography and in Toronto at Angell Gallery. Her “Tailgating” series documents American culture and how people interact in public open spaces. These images capture stereotypes like college frat boys beerbonging before football games, religious rightwingnuts outside Republican national conventions, and mulletted hair-farming rockers tanking up before heavy metal concerts, all acting in their most natural and loose way before her lens. As if that doesn’t keep her busy enough, she also runs her own handmade gift card company called A Home In The Sky and contributes regularly to artblog Lipsticktracez. Now that she has finally triumphed over a three year battle with clinical vertigo, Cara is once again back behind the lens, capturing the likes of Kanye West, Jane’s Addiction, and Kings of Leon. Cara subjected herself to this inquisition via email from a white room in New York City sitting next to her god daughter, Luca, in July 2009. You can view more of her work at www.carabloch.com.