How did you get hooked up with AMC?
A guy named Brad Hochberg, who owns a company named Refinery, which is a design agency and ad company for the television industry, suggested me to do the Mad Men stuff. I’ve done the key art and the gallery work for Mad Men every year....
A guy named Brad Hochberg, who owns a company named Refinery, which is a design agency and ad company for the television industry, suggested me to do the Mad Men stuff. I’ve done the key art and the gallery work for Mad Men every year....
Is there a lot of pressure to have all these high-profile actors on set waiting for you to shoot?They have all been really great. They’re very giving actors. Working with guys like Jon Hamm, Andrew Lincoln and Bryan Cranston is a gift. They walk in and the look at you and they talk to you by name and they remember the work you do. They really want to participate and see how far they can push the photography. They don’t complain about being there for the day or how much they have to do. It’s amazing.
How different is it to shoot pictures of an actor in character than a normal portrait?
It depends. I’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of actors who appreciate that I’m not there doing their portrait. I’m there to photograph the character to illustrate the show. Andy Lincoln from The Walking Dead would go run around in 90-degrees and come back breathing heavily and covered in sweat and say, "Ready to go?" And we’d go shoot. He works himself into the process. Jon does the same thing when we’re doing Mad Men. Bryan does the same thing when we’re doing Breaking Bad.....
**Have you shot some of the actors in and out of character? **
Yeah. I have shot Bryan and Jesse for The Hollywood Reporter not in character. They came through and I shot their portraits........"Let’s take pictures how you want to take pictures." If you shoot Jon Hamm outside of the context of Don Draper, his hair might be messed up. He might not be so put together. I’ve seen him outside in public. He’s not always Don Draper. He has a great sense of humor.
The Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Awards are the entertainment industry's most recognized awards for advertising and communications. Judged by a jury of industry experts, a total of one grand, 19 gold, 62 silver and 72 bronze awards were presented in categories such as audio visual, digital, packaging, display, print, innovative media and integrated, the last of which consisting of a mininum of three promotions in at least three different media
Hosted by Greg Proops, Frank W. Ockenfels 3 for an Honorary Key Art Award presented to him by Jon Hamm.
Ockenfels, who has shot movie posters for The Social Network, Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spiderman and the Harry Potter series, called Hamm his "favorite muse" when he collected his award
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