Dale May

Bio

Internationally recognized, award-winning, advertising, celebrity, & music photographer Dale May, has been pushing the boundaries of photography and post-production for more than 15 years.

Best known for his richly stylized, character-driven, conceptual imagery, Dale has captured some of today’s most recognizable personalities, including Charlize Theron, Jared Leto, Cristina Aguilera, Moby, Isaac Mizrahi, Matt Leblanc and Gene Simmons.

Personally passionate about music and performance, Dale also has shot countless bands ranging from Black Sabbath to 30 Seconds To Mars, as well as the Broadway casts of West Side Story, 9 to 5, Hair, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, and most recently, Bonnie & Clyde.

Although Dale has remained focused on his commercial career, his roots have always been firmly planted in the fine arts. He grew up 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Chadds Ford, PA. Dale’s grandfather was a big-band drummer and band leader in the ‘20s and ‘30s, and his grandmother was a supper club singer. Dale played the drums from age five and was also artistically inspired by his neighbor, the American Contemporary Realist Painter, Andrew Wyeth.

Dale moved to NY to study painting, color theory, and art history at Parson's School of Design. The foundation of these first few years shaped his current aesthetic style and he graduated in 1993 with a BFA in Photography.

Combining his background in painting and color theory, lighting and post production, Dale works with the inspiration to make the unthinkable real, as well as ... believable.

Affiliations

Owner / Creative Director of Post Image Group.

Post Image Group is a high-end, professional digital retouching studio servicing photographers, advertising agencies, and publishing companies since 2001. Our artists posses the enviable combination of photographic knowledge, technical expertise, and artistic vision. We work directly with the client to achieve the desired aesthetic and the strongest possible image. Whether the image needs simple color correction and cleanup, or requires extensive compositing and complex manipulation, our specialists work directly with you to create the perfect creative solution.

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