Kate Lord Photography

New Site - Let's Migrate!

2010-04-06T07:22:00.000-07:00

I recently re-launched my portfolio site and it incorporates a blog - please come on over to www.KateLordPhoto.com.

Fashion Week Recap!

2010-02-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

Last Fashion Week I went out shooting stills for The Thread, but this time around I was able to shoot short videos for web, broadcast and NBC in Taxi. Laurel, The Thread's fashion editor, and her team chose ten designers to watch this time around and I was able to do some in-studio interviews, shoot backstage at one show and shoot hair and make-up + runway at another.

Jeremy Scott's line was definitely the most outrageous and fun collection that I saw. His major inspiration? Fashion itself.

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

I was able to hang out backstage with the ladies of Vena Cava, as well. Sophie and Lisa paired their Woodstock-inspired line with some amazing felt hats:

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

We previewed Fashion Week with studio visits with The Thread 10. I went with Laurel to visit Prabal Gurung, who spoke to us about motorcross:

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

Check out The Thread's backstage interview + runway with Prabal here.

Subway Musicians Donate Half Their Profit for Haiti Relief

2010-01-18T11:55:00.000-08:00

Virginian djembe player Erich Woodrum and Cameroonian balafonist Francois Nnang met only a few weeks ago, but are fast friends. The pair plays nearly everyday together at the Union Square subway station and has decided that they're going to donate half of their profits for a week to the Red Cross for its Haiti relief efforts.

"It's about expressing our solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Haiti," Woodrum said. "We're letting people know that we care and we're doing something about it so hopefully they'll be inspired to do something as well."

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

Update: Jowy over at The Subway Art Blog picked the story too.

Holgas: Washington Square & Washington D.C.

2009-12-02T22:52:00.001-08:00

I love the Holga. Not only do you get the old-school joy of waiting to get film developed, but they create really cool vignetting. And who doesn't love medium-format squareness?

A few months a go I shot off two rolls of black-and-white film and forgot about them. I just got them developed and was pleasantly surprised. I present a day in Washington Square Park and a weekend in Washington, D.C.:

DC:

My friends:

Heidi Klum and the Williamsburg Bridge

2009-11-30T10:50:00.000-08:00

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show returned to New York, which for me meant media stunts and backstage access to the show.

Marisa Miller, Heidi Klum and Alessandra Ambrosia hit Times Square to promote the show:

The day of the show, I got backstage access to the ladies' hair and make-up session. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Behati Prinsloo were getting prepped while I was there. And guess what -- those luscious locks aren't real:

And then a few days later I went wandering across the Williamsburg Bridge to the LES and SoHo:

A Week in Photos (Nov. 2 - 8)

2009-11-11T01:00:00.000-08:00

Monday: I wandered up to the park on the East River that faces Manhattan. Sometimes I forget that I live here.

Tuesday: Found a really cool subway performer at Union Square Tuesday night. Francois plays the balafon and moved to NYC from Cameroon about a year ago. More to come about him in a later post.

Wednesday: Former Olympians, Toronto hopefuls and other athletes gathered in Rockefeller Center to celebrate the 100 day countdown to the start of the games. See a full gallery at NBCNewYork.com

Thursday: Victoria's Secret revealed the top ten finalists for the next runway Angel. The women will compete in "Angel Boot Camp" to determine who gets to walk in the December show. See a full gallery of the contestants at NBCNewYork.com

Sunday: Wandered around Greenpoint with Leah and shot a portrait for class -- and an interesting building.

Subway Art Blog

2009-10-23T20:52:00.000-07:00

Jowy Romano over at The Subway Art Blog posted some of my photos, accompanied by music by Marques Toliver, on his site. The blog is all about art found in or inspired by the NYC metro system and includes amusing, engaging content from all around the MTA.

accordionist

2009-10-22T20:58:00.000-07:00

Downtown BDFV platform at Rockefeller Center

The Rest of Fashion Week

2009-09-23T19:45:00.000-07:00

I got to shoot a few shows and presentations for Fashion Week for NBCNewYork.com's fashion blog The Thread. The ADAM show was much crazier than Rachel Comey -- I practically had to lie down to squeeze some space among the other photogs to shoot the runway, but it was definitely a fun experience. The Marchesa presentation was interesting too - the models stood on pedestals like works of art, which was appropriate because it was held in a gallery.

See the whole ADAM show.

See the whole Marchesa presentation.

ADAM show:

Marchesa presentation:

Rachel Comey's Spring 2010 Show

2009-09-09T18:12:00.000-07:00

I shot my first runway show! Rachel Comey held her spring 2010 show on a roof in Chelsea, and NBCnewyork.com got backstage access.

See the whole slideshow here and read an interview with Rachel Comey by our fashion editor Laurel Pinson here.

Applying "freckles."

Getting teased.

The make-up for the show was understated and the hair was teased to the max.

Rachel Comey designs both the the clothing and the shoes.

Getting ready to step out during the rehearsal.

The runway show:

Sandals with socks? Shockingly cute!

Guitarists on the L Train

2009-09-02T22:10:00.000-07:00

Maybe it's because I grew up in suburbia, but I'm still fascinated by buskers and street performers. I mean, people don't just burst into song in a crowded place in Matthews, N.C.
This duo was on the L train yesterday morning.

Bedford Busker

2009-08-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

Amy and Rod's Wedding

2009-08-18T08:46:00.001-07:00

In June, I had the pleasure of photographing Amy and Rod's wedding on Wrightsville Beach. They had a beautiful ceremony in between the raindrops on the Southern tip of the island. Many congratulations to the happy couple!

Toys for Sale

2009-05-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

McCarren Park is pretty much my favorite people watching destination.

Mom-mom

2009-05-27T23:00:00.000-07:00

My grandma came into the city yesterday with my aunt and cousin to see South Pacific on Broadway. Mom-mom, my dad's mom, is 93 years old, and as she'll frequently tell you herself, she's pretty remarkable for her age. She still gets around and visits with all of her friends and will occasionally trek into Manhattan from Pennington, N.J., to see one of her beloved musicals. And if a tune strikes her, she still gets her boogie on!

Jamie and Bob's Wedding

2009-05-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

Jamie and Bob Ferguson were married April 25 in Wilmington, N.C. They had a beautiful ceremony at the Arboretum and the reception was held at the Cameron Art Museum. Thanks for having me share your day, Jamie and Bob!

Old Town Bar wins the Golden Local

2009-04-22T22:05:00.000-07:00

NBCNewYork.com had readers vote in an epic debate about which of two NYC bars was the better "old" bar. The Old Town Bar on 18th street won. Gerard Meagher, the co-owner of the bar, served champagne to all his patrons to celebrate the win. Guiness was, of course, still available. See the rest of the Golden Local gallery here.

Stumblebum Brass Band

2009-04-05T13:40:00.000-07:00

This is the second time I've caught Stumblebum Brass Band at around midnight at the 6th Avenue L stop. They've got an awesome sound and somehow schlep a whole drumkit into the subway, so that in itself is impressive.

Josh Malone plays trumpet and vocals -- no mics in the subway, just a bullhorn.

Jesse Wildcards on the tuba.

Another subway performer

2009-03-31T22:48:00.001-07:00

...This time in the middle of the afternoon. This F train car was pretty full, but no one seemed to mind the drummers.

The Golden Local

2009-03-20T22:56:00.000-07:00

The Golden Local is a set of "debates" at NBCnewyork.com in which New Yorkers vote on what is the best hot dog, pizza slice, etc. Today's debate: New York's best steakhouse. BLT was awarded the coveted Golden Local. And I was sent to go shoot it:

F Train and Central Park

2009-03-19T22:43:00.000-07:00

I really need to carry my camera around more because I'm getting so much "shot regret," as my dear friend Edythe would call it. Here are a few snaps from when I wasn't too lazy and actually carried it with me:

This guy was having a major jam session on the F train. That dude in the far back in the black jacket was not too happy about it, but everyone else on the train was clapping along and cheering him on. Oh yeah, this was at 12:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning.

These two kind of mirror each other in technique - both are from Central Park.

wandering...

2009-03-08T20:13:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, Leah, Daniel and I wandered all around the Lower East Side, SoHo and the farmer's market at Union Square. Despite the fact that I start work at 2 p.m. and have all morning to do things like this, I still find myself being SUPER LAZY. So this is the first time I really explored Manhattan at all.

i <3 subway performers

2009-02-23T21:43:00.000-08:00

I am apparently enthralled by subway performers. This dude was at the Rockefeller Center stop Saturday night. Gotta love some old school accordian music!

First week in NYC

2009-02-16T15:49:00.000-08:00

Wayne, a street performer, gets the crowd riled up at the 34th Street - Herald Square subway station.

Coffee while we waited for our brunch to arrive.

Awesome church down the street from my apartment -- love the roof!!!

Cute tags on each bottle at a little local wine shop.

Railing in Green Point in Brooklyn.

Green Point.

Seniors play Wii for recreation, social avenue

2009-01-28T15:13:00.000-08:00

The Cabarrus County Senior Center bought a Wii and taught some of its members how to play Wii Bowling. Some of the ladies had played with their grandkids before and some were happy to be able to bowl without the heavy ball. Over all, the Wii was a hit, and now the center is planning to set up bowling leagues!

Inauguration weekend

2009-01-22T14:18:00.000-08:00

On the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, crowds gathered in the National Mall to check out the scene.

A Texan woman wears a "Texans for Obama" bumper sticker on the back of her winter coat in the National Mall Monday, January 19.

A street vendor warms his hands as a large group descends on his Obama merchandise on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration.

Cambrea Sturgis, 9, of Kannapolis, N.C. stands in the crowd waiting to push out of the Gallery Place - Chinatown metro stop in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 20. The D.C. metro system saw record crowds on inauguration day.

A panoramic image of the crowd locked outside of the National Mall at a checkpoint on Indiana Avenue on inauguration day.

Joyce Miller, a teacher from Texas, listens to a radio broadcast of President Barack Obama's inaugural speech and recites it aloud for the large crowd at the Indiana Avenue checkpoint to hear. The crowd, which waited 4 hours in the cold and didn't make it inside the checkpoint in time to hear Obama's speech, stood quietly and listened to Miller recite.

Joyce Miller celebrates after President Barack Obama finished his speech.

Tuesday night, long after the hub-bub of the inauguration was over, the Metro Center metro stop was not crowded at all.

Video Series: Cabarrus residents attend inauguration

2009-01-22T14:01:00.000-08:00

I worked on this project with reporter Ben McNeely and photographer James Nix.

Happy Hanukkah!

2008-12-21T22:28:00.001-08:00

Hanukkah officially began on Sunday night, and Cabarrus County's only Jewish congregation, Temple Or Olam, celebrated with a party. Below, 5-year-old Caleb Malin lights the menorah with help from his father Judah.

Estelle Wiley has been registering voters for about 50 years

2008-12-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

Now the 89-year-old wants to get to Barack Obama's inauguration. Hear her talk about her experiences as an African-American in the South and her work to register Kannapolis' voters.

14-year-old cuts jazz album...

2008-12-15T18:29:00.000-08:00

... and it's pretty good.

Steven Vaughn Ray is a freshman at Northwest Cabarrus High School and traveled to France for a weekend to cut his first jazz album. He had his CD release party at Midtown Sundries in Cornelius.

Brooklyn bridge

2008-11-20T18:15:00.001-08:00

Cannon School students attempt to break Guinness record for stacking

2008-11-20T10:35:00.000-08:00

This video was produced for IndependentTribune.com. Cannon school students participated in the World Sports Stacking Association's third annual Stack Up!, in which students stacked 12 cups in different formations against a clock or in a team relay. The event sought to win the "World's Largest Sports Stacking Event" title in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Obama campaigns in Charlotte the night before the election

2008-11-05T21:28:00.001-08:00

Video: Barack Obama stops in Charlotte the day before the election

The day before being elected president, Sen. Barack Obama made a campaign stop in Charlotte, N.C. at UNC-Charlotte. The A.P. reported that 25,000 people attended Obama's second to last rally before election day. While N.C. has not been claimed either a red or blue state, Obama has claimed 62% to Sen. John McCain's 37.5% of Mecklenburg County's votes.

Kannapolis' last faces of segregation

2008-10-01T04:50:00.000-07:00

photos by James Nix

"The Miss Kannapolis float is one of the firsts to pass in the Christmas parade. A short time later the A.L. Brown Marching Band will make its way down Main Street, blowing John Phillip Susa marches while keeping perfect form. It was the tradition.

George Washington Carver High School performed near the end of the cavalcade. Their presence was a crowd favorite and they practiced more than normal to keep expectations high. The low-hanging midmorning sun cast shadows as large as the egos of the drum lines.

Drummers riff on complex syncopated rhythms while the majorettes throw their batons higher than they ever did in practice and catch them without looking up.

Audience members bundled up in their wearing heavy winter coats move with the beats, applauding uproariously and cheering madly.

Moments later, cleaning crews hired by the Cannon Mills Company begin sweeping up the streets and the crowd dissolves. The all-black G.W. Carver band, wearing beaming smiles on top of their white and blue uniforms, puts away their equipment and push down the last remaining anxiety about their performance.

This will be the first and last time a white audience applauds them this year, because in 1960 Kannapolis, blacks sit in the backs of restaurants, enter through a separate door at the mill and go to black only dentists. The races rarely interact unless there’s a downbeat.

But that was 1960. "

-Josh Lanier, Independent Tribune

This was my first big multimedia project for the Independent Tribune. I'm really proud of it- in one week, we interviewed 9 alumni of Carver High, the last all-black school in Kannapolis, about their experiences during segregation, racism today and Barack Obama.

Spirit Talk

2008-08-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

Amanda Greene, our religion reporter, and I have been working on a piece called Spirit Talk. The second part in the two-part series will be about unconscious moments of divine intervention: falling out (when some one falls to the ground uncontrollably), speaking in tongues, spontaneous crying, dancing, singing or prophesying.

Eddie Deaver

2008-08-18T21:37:00.001-07:00

Chrissy's dad, Eddie, rockin' out with some classic rock at Open Mic night at 16 Taps. It's the second time in a week after a 5 year hiatus. Chrissy cajoled him into starting to play again.

East Coast Wahine Surf Tourney

2008-08-17T21:00:00.000-07:00

Women of all ages were welcomed Sunday, August 17, 2008 to compete in the East Coast Wahine Surf Tournament at Wrightsville Beach.

Myrtle Grove All-Stars will represent N.C. at Little League Regionals

2008-07-31T17:52:00.000-07:00

The Myrtle Grove All-Stars won the N.C. Little League Tournament and will represent the state this week in Florida for a chance at the Little League Southeast Region title.

Behind the Scenes at the N.C. Aquarium

2008-07-21T14:06:00.001-07:00

Heather Gaunt does some coral maintenance in the Cape Fear Shoals Exhibit at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher.

Best of Boxing

2008-07-21T13:52:00.000-07:00

Lateisha Darden is one of the few female boxers in Wilmington. She wakes up each morning during the summer to train and practices each evening during the school year.

Riding for Charity

2008-07-17T14:01:00.000-07:00

Doris Eakes is the founder and president of Trinity Children Foundation and is organizing the third annual motorcycle ride to benefit the foundation.

Reef/Sweetwater Pro-Am Surf Fest

2008-07-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

This 14-year-old was super intense... and from New Jersey- my very own home state!

Rugby

2008-07-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

Washington-Irish Rugby Football Club's Andrew Kempe struggles to hold onto the ball while being tackled by Cherry Point Rugby's Tommy Anderson during the Social Second Flight final game Sunday, July 6, 2008 during the Cape Fear Sevens Tournament at Ogden Park. Cherry Point won the game.

Charleston holgas

2008-06-25T21:24:00.001-07:00

NYC holgas

2008-06-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

Kids Making It woodworking program

2008-06-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

Kids Making It is a non-profit program that teaches local teens how to woodwork in an effort to keep them off the streets and teach them basic business principles.

Fort Fisher for fun

2008-06-09T13:13:00.000-07:00

Lately, I love black and white

2008-06-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

Teddy Burgh, a local jazz flutist/saxophonist.

Habitat's Builders' Blitz

2008-06-06T15:25:00.000-07:00

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity built 3 houses in one week.

Taxidermist video

2008-06-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

Ahh, memories

2008-06-01T19:30:00.001-07:00

I was looking through my China pictures and found this one- all of these bicycle rickshaws are lined up near Beijing's hutongs-- small neighborhood alleyways right on the river.

High school baseball

2008-05-29T11:24:00.001-07:00

Wrightsville Beach

2008-05-09T20:21:00.001-07:00

Circle of Blue

2008-05-08T08:55:00.000-07:00

Yamdrok Lake, Tibet

published by Circle of Blue: http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/china-tibet-and-the-strategic-power-of-water/

Possible blueberry closing

2008-05-07T09:18:00.001-07:00

The Castle Hayne Research Station creates 90 percent of the varieties of blueberries in the world. A legislative staff report recommends closing seven of the state-run stations, including the Castle Hayne station. These blueberries, shot May 7, 2008, will be ripe in June.

Aerials of the USS North Carolina

2008-04-28T14:32:00.000-07:00

Hillary Clinton visits Wilmington

2008-04-28T06:58:00.000-07:00

Skateboarding at Azalea Fest

2008-04-14T12:26:00.000-07:00

I may or may not have fallen off the halfpipe, sliding down on my butt and stopping the whole show to a cheer of, "let's hear it for the Star-News lady!"

37th Frame

2008-04-07T06:44:00.000-07:00

"The 37th Frame is an annual juried exhibition of Carolina student photojournalism. This year 500 submissions were received. The top 50 images and five photo stories will be exhibited in Carroll Hall, on the Garden Level, beginning April 9, and ending May 12. " Come see some of my pics!

Fire

2008-04-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

Right when I was about to leave for the weekend on Thursday, there was a fire downtown. The house was abandoned, so no one was hurt.

Holgas!

2008-04-04T10:40:00.000-07:00

From my first ever roll of Holga medium format film!

First month at Wilmington Star-News

2008-04-04T10:30:00.000-07:00