Inez & Vinoodh
New York Carrer

Inez and Vinoodh returned to New York permanently in 1995 to meet ever-increasing demands for them as assignment photographers and they have been prodigious in their output ever since. Working with a team of loyal collaborators comprising the most progressive stylists, art directors, hair and make-up artists, lighting specialists, models andrecurring celebrity sitters, their extensive list of editorial contributions includes luxury fashion titles Vogue, Paris Vogue, Vogue Italia, W, Visionaire, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Hommes International, Vogue Nippon and Vogue China as well as style magazines Purple Fashion, Interview, V, V Man, Self Service, Another, Pop, i-D, Fantastic Man, and The Gentlewoman. While Inez and Vinoodh’s imagery runs the stylistic gamut from high glamour to classical portraiture and conceptual tableaux, at its heart is a unique and highly recognizable lexicon of playful pose and extreme gesture. Devised largely in collaboration with the choreographer Stephen Galloway, it is this language that consistently transports their photographs from mere sartorial studies into something transcendent and strange.

Highly sought after as society photographers, Inez and Vinoodh have captured definitive portrait sittings with many of the key figures of film and celebrity. They have photographed four of The New York Times Magazine’s renowned “Great Performers In Film!” portfolios, in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010, featuring definitive sittings with Clint Eastwood, Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, Daniel Day-Lewis, Natalie Portman, Colin Firth, Shirley MacLaine, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Mila Kunis, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Javier Bardem, Viggo Mortensen and Julianne Moore. In 2007 Inez and Vinoodh were guest photographers of the legendary Pirelli calendar. Citing a cast of actresses young and old as their erotic heroines, their black and white close-ups of Sofia Loren, Penélope Cruz, Naomi Watts, Hilary Swank and Lou Doillon, shot in a private bedroom setting, proved to be one of the most intimate and sexually powerful of the calendar’s history.

Perhaps the greatest measure of Inez and Vinoodh’s commercial success and influence are the many advertising campaigns they have photographed for the most prestigious fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent, Balmain, Nina Ricci, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Isabel Marant, Giuseppe Zanotti, Lanvin Homme, Miu Miu, Christian Dior Joaillarie, Gucci, Chloé, Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, Yohji Yamamoto, Chanel, Roberto Cavalli, Donna Karan, DKNY, Stella McCartney, Brioni, Moschino, Loewe, Mulberry, Emanuel Ungaro, Louis Vuitton and Helmut Lang. They have also created memorable advertising imagery for fragrance and cosmetics brands Chloé Fragrance, Thierry Mugler Fragrance, Viktor & Rolf Parfum, Chanel Makeup, Lancôme, Narciso Rodriguez, Shiseido, Juicy Couture Fragrance, Gucci Sport Fragrance and Estée Lauder.

Motion image has been part of Inez and Vinoodh’s productivity for over a decade; initially in music video — CD covers for Björk led to their watershed video for her single Hidden Place (2001), created with art directors M/M (Paris)—and increasingly in the burgeoning genre of fashion film. Inez and Vinoodh collaborated with Stefano Pilati and Stephanie Cohen on Your Skin Against My Skin as part of the presentation of the Yves Saint Laurent Homme autumn/winter ’09–’10 collection. Their Girls On Film short, rendered using cutting edge Red camera technology, was commissioned to launch Paris Vogue’s iPad application in autumn 2010.

Inez and Vinoodh directed Lady Gaga's 2013 music video for "Applause". They shot the single cover for "Applause" and shot single covers for other songs from Gaga's album "ARTPOP",. They were featured in her "artRAVE" and shot an "ARTPOP Film". In 2015, they shot the single cover for "Only One", a collaboration between Kanye West and Paul McCartney, along with directing the video for "FourFiveSeconds", a song by Rihanna, featuring West and McCartney.