Maya Guez
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Maya Guez was born in 1980 in Israel. She is a noted fashion photographer and makeup artist based in New York. She has worked with many publications and companies across the world doing fashion, beauty and glamour photography.
Guez was brought up in a poor family with 4 siblings and a sick father. She put herself through school and after finishing a 4 year study of fine arts in Israel, she continued onto private photography school and fashion design school. In 2002 she moved to the United States and worked with the publication house "Blue Print" as well as continuing to work in Europe with the French production company "Avalanche Productions".
Maya Guez is currently working under a stock photography/film/production company in New York that has enabled her to work under an artist status in America. Guez's body of work is very diversified and consists of high fashion and beauty models, recording and performing artists, famous athletes, urban flare models, and publicity for motion pictures.
She is also known to have ground breaking work with unusual subjects such as fetish models, plus models, female illusionists and using them as fashion models, although this part of her work is rarely publicized. She has photographed some of New York City's performers and night life divas, such as Candis Cayne, Kevin Aviance and Allanah Starr.
Some of her clients have included:
- L'Oréal Paris
- Clarins
- MAC cosmetics
- Playboy magazine
- Time Out magazine
- Genre magazine
- Emerge Records
- Tower Records
