Seth Taras Portfolio 2013

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Seth Taras is a self-taught photographer,writer and cartoonist.

He is one of Luerzers Archives 200 Best

Photographers Worldwide and winner ofnumerous international awards includinga Cannes Lion for his brand campaign for

The History Channel, Know Where YouStand, which has been translated into 30

languages and published in 130 countries.

He was born into a lineage of artists andartisans, including bronze and

Macramsculptors, golden-agecartoonists, interior designers, vacuumrepairmen (and a tailor to the Czar ofRussia).

His pictures hang in collections aroundthe world.

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Annual advertising campaign for The Grove, Los Angeles


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Toyota Prius Plug Campaign


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Direct prints from original film negatives


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Motion Picture Marketing Copywriting and Re-title Projects


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Copywriting/Branding/Design


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CV ExperienceOurStay, Los Angeles, CA Creative Consultant4/2012-4/2013 - Created/curated editorial content of specialized mobile e-concierge apps for luxury hotels around

the world. Supervised team of researchers. Developed editorial and visual style of apps.

Ignition Creative, Los Angeles, CA Writer

4/2011-1/2012 - Motion picture advertising copywriting. Wrote movie trailers, taglines and promotional copy formajor Hollywood studio projects. Movie re-title specialist.

RAISED & BORN, Montreal, Canada Co-founder and partnerOngoing creative partnership founded in 2009. Product and corporate development, marketing, copy, and design.

PhotographerSince 2001 - Award-winning commercial and fine art photographer.

AwardsLuerzers Archive's 200 Best Advertising Photographers Worldwide 2006, 2007

Cannes Lion (52nd Cannes International Advertising Festival)

Silver Cube (Art Director's Club), Two Merit Awards (The ONE Show), Belding Bowl (Belding Awards, Los Angeles)

Communication Arts Photography Annual (Advertising Series), PROMAX & BDA World Gold

Communication Arts Photography Annual (Advertising), 2003

Millay Colony Residency Fellowship, Austerlitz, NY, September 2002

PartialClienteleCaruso Affiliated/The Grove, Shelter Hotel, Toyota, Twentieth Century Fox, Ground Zero Advertising, Publicis,Ogilvy, Nonesuch Records, Random House, The Cond Nast Publications, Vintage Books, Pentagram, The NewYorker, Elle Decoration UK, CITY Magazine


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Links to PressURBANORIGAMI:Oneofthemostpopularar1cleseverinArtweekLA

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Seth Taras Portfolio 2013