PLANET LEE CHERRY

Ma'ayan Castel Music video: Courage

2012-01-30T10:50:00.000-08:00

Check out this music video I directed for Japanese BMI artist Ma'ayan Castel. At the time of writing this, her album is #1 on Japanese I-tunes. We shot location at Serenity West Studios on a Red One and used a 30ft crane from Cranium.

Directed by: Lee Cherry
DP/Crane Operator: Chad Esh
Crane Operator: Nico Bally
Editor: Bryant Robinson
Hair and Makeup: Sutan Amrull

Adam Lambert debuts Trespassing Album cover

2012-01-25T20:06:00.000-08:00

Adam released the artwork to his upcoming album, Trespassing this past week. Album art by the awesome team at Cherry Multimedia, LLC. Trespassing drops on March 20th. You can pre-order it here!

Cherry Multimedia creates Adam Lambert's Better Than I Know Myself single art

2011-12-20T12:40:00.000-08:00

Adam Lambert's single "Better Than I Know Myself" came out today. It's from his upcoming album, Trespassing. The song is amazing and is available for download here. Photo is by Lee Cherry and the graphics and layout was done by Cherry Multimedia's amazing graphics team. We love working with Adam, are very happy with the results and are thrilled with the public reaction. Enjoy this amazing song from a one-of-a-kind, world class artist.

Cherrymultimedia.com has launched!

2011-12-05T09:32:00.001-08:00

What I've been hearing very often is "I didn't know you did that!" over and over again. I gave it some thought and in light of my desire to embrace everything that I love to do, I have launched Cherry Multimedia, LLC. A collaborative production company. Between myself and the team of freelance artists we have on board, we can create a diverse amount of content and already have projects in the fire as we speak. From photography, retouching, graphic design, video, editing, music, brand identity, Art and Creative Direction, to website facilitation, Cherry Multimedia, can be involved a little or a lot. We love to work on a team, as a team, and use both sides of our brains to get done on time and budget. Please stop by www.cherrymultimedia.com and take it all in. Feel free to contact us for a consultation on your next project to see how we can help.

Resource Television Dance Photo Shoot

2011-10-07T10:26:00.000-07:00

The good folks over at Resource Magazine decided to follow up with me and we collaborated on a Dance/Fashion photo shoot together in New York at Shoot Digital studios. Below are a few selects from the shoot featuring Broadway and Twyla Tharpe dancers, Kristine Bendul-Bergasse and Meredith Miles. Hair and makeup by Livio Angileri, Styling by Sabine Feuilloley. Shoot produced by Adam Sherwin, Aurelie Jezequel and me. More photos and a Behind The Scenes video segment is coming soon! Follow me on twitter and facebook to keep an eye out.

EP Covers for Randy Jackson's new groups, The Canyons and Brunette

2011-10-04T10:56:00.000-07:00

American Idol Judge, Randy Jackson has started a company called Dream Merchant 21. I have been working with 2 of his acts. Amazing Singer/songwriter group The Canyons, and the hot new girl group, Brunette. For Brunette, I shot, retouched and designed the cover. For Canyons, I edited the photos, provided by The Canyons from the Soho House photo booth (which I thought was a pretty fabulous approach), designed the cover, and shot a ton of their recording sessions and amazing live performances. You can download the Brunette's new EP here and The Canyon's Album here. Also be sure to stop by Randy Jackson's Next site, which is also pretty hot....dawg. ;)

Profoto Article for Labor of love Album Cover Shoot.

2011-09-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

Profoto, the leading lighting company in the photography industry recently did an article on me for the Labor of Love Album cover. The Article was written by Alice B. Miller. You can check the article HERE.

Labor of Love is available on ITUNES and Hard copy CD's are available at www.laborofloveproject.com

2 page spread in Resource Magazine

2011-01-24T14:42:00.000-08:00

The good folks over at Resource Magazine did a Technique article about my Dance Photography which is in their current Jan 2011 issue. See below. 2xclick the image to read the article and the magazine itself is available as well.

Scarlett Cherry Pregnancy photos and launch of LaborOfLoveProject.com

2010-11-21T07:13:00.000-08:00

Today is my wife, Scarlett Cherry's Birthday. Today she is also 30 weeks pregnant, and it is the official public launch of the LaborOfLoveProject.com. As of yesterday, she has completed the writing portion of her upcoming album, entitled Labor Of Love, which is a love letter to Motherhood. Please visit www.laborofloveproject.com and feel free to contribute to theKickstarter page as well. This is going to be an amazing album, put together with so much love, care and talent, it's not even funny. Oh, and Photos by me. :)

New image and artwork for Adam Lambert EP.

2010-11-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

I'm looking forward to this one. Photo and Artwork by me. See the official press release below.

(New York, NY) - Superstar Adam Lambert announces plans to release Acoustic Live! (19 Recordings / RCA Records), a 5 song EP, which will be available at all digital service providers as well as at www.AdamOfficial.com on December 6th. In addition there will be a limited number of physical copies made available for sale exclusive from www.AdamOfficial.com.

Fans who pre-order the EP on www.AdamOfficial.com will get the acoustic version of "Whataya Want From Me" immediately as an instant grat as well as a limited edition lithograph poster of the cover art. Acoustic Live! includes versions of five of Adam's most popular tracks from For Your Entertainment, including "Whataya Want From Me" and "Music Again" which were recording while Adam was in Germany and "Aftermath" and "Soaked" from Lambert's Glam Nation tour. It also includes an acoustic version of "Mad World", which Adam first performed memorably on American Idol.

Lambert's debut album For Your Entertainment (19 Entertainment / RCA Records) has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since making it's debut at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in November 2009. He is first American Idol to ever tour the world in support of their debut album in the year following their Idol season. Lambert's hit single "Whataya Want From Me," written by Pink and Max Martin, became his first #1 hit on the Billboard charts, topping the Hot Singles Sales survey as well as Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. "Whataya Want From Me" has been a smash hit on many charts, including the Hot 100, Pop Songs, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Hot Digital Songs and Hot Dance Club Play. It has also become an international hit, going top 10 in Australia, Sweden, South Africa, New Zealand, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Argentina and Finland and reaching #1 airplay in Canada, Germany & Singapore. "If I Had You" also charted Top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Finland, South Africa and Canada.

Lambert's performances on Season 8 of "American Idol" are already legendary, his live televised collaborations with Queen and KISS were a highlight of his season and his stunning performances of songs including "Mad World," "The Tracks Of My Tears," "Ring Of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Love" are still widely regarded as some of the most captivating moments in Idol history.

Cool New Stop-motion video

2010-11-10T19:29:00.000-08:00

I did a little experiment with stop-motion photography and I love the result. This video is my friend and world renowned body painter Filippo Ioco, who is body painting my wife, Scarlett Cherry. She is the final model in a 3 painting series where heavenly bodies were painted on these pregnant women's heavenly bodies! Check it out:

Sun Star from Lee Cherry on Vimeo.

Adam Lambert/Lee Cherry 2011 Wall Calendar now available!!

2010-11-10T13:55:00.000-08:00

There is 2011 Adam Lambert Wall Calendar with photos taken by me available exclusively at AdamLambertfans.com. 2500 of them will be signed by both me and Adam. The folks over at Ground Cntrl did such a great job of putting it together. I'm looking forward to these being out in the world. The fans will be very happy! To purchase the calendar, go here!

Leaked photos of The Glam Band!!

2010-08-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

So someone apparently leaked some photos off of a private viewing page with a Type-o in my logo. Here's the images that were actually meant for public viewing. I will be releasing some new photos soon as well. In the mean time, Enjoy!

New Images: SYTYCD all-star Lauren Gottlieb

2010-08-12T13:40:00.000-07:00

In finally having a second to catch up, and in honor of the So You Think You Can Dance finale, I've added some selcts of my recent shoot with SYTYCDAll-Star, Lauren Gottlieb. Enjoy!

New Behind The Scenes: The PULSE!

2010-07-27T10:06:00.000-07:00

If you're a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, then you're a Fan of The Pulse. It's a dance convention of the highest order, consisting of the world renowned, emmy winning, and critically acclaimed choreographers of the world...Brian Friedman, Mia Michaels, Wade Robson, Tyce Diorio, Dave Scott, Laurianne Gibson, Gil Duldulao, and Desmond Richardson. This Behind The Scenes video was shot and cut by the amazing AJ Morales. You can view this main pic and other selected solo shots on my website. Enjoy!!!

Adam Lambert Photo shoot Behind The Scenes on Entertainment Tonight

2010-07-19T10:17:00.000-07:00

http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/07/89270/

Entertainment Tonight will be airing a Behind The Scenes look of my photo shoot with Adam Lambert tonight. They have also released an early look on ETONLINE. Check it out..and for those of you that are asking...YES..There are more images and they will be released soon! Follow me on twitter for updates!

Cover shoot for Tasting Panel Magazine

2010-06-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

I shot the cover and inside story for the current issue of The Tasting Panel Magazine on location at Sky Bar in West Hollywood. Click here for the full article and keep an eye out for the actual magazine on the newsstands.

Camera Geek Stuff:
Canon 5d Mark II w/ 24-70 lens
Profoto 7a w/ beauty dish is main light and an umbrella to light background.

New shot

2010-06-02T17:49:00.000-07:00

So I recently shot my friend and fellow Zodiacer, Alisan Porter and her new band consisting of Ilsey Juber and Jordan Lawhead. This project is being Executive Produced by American Idol's Randy Jackson. They recently had music placed in a movie called "Secrets of The Mountain" and has music placed in an upcoming movie called "The Jenson Project." It airs July 16th on NBC. You can follow this awesomely talented band on Twitter here.

Camera geek stuff:
on location with a Canon 5D MK II, Profoto acuteB 600r, Profoto 5 foot Octa hand held with a monopod.

New Adam Lambert shot is out!

2010-06-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

So another shot I took of Adam Lambert came out today. This time, on the cover of Frontiers Magazine. Check it...

More images coming soon. Enjoy!

Adam Lambert's new single Cover Art shot and designed by me.

2010-05-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago Adam and I did a shoot at Miahaus Studios in Hollywood. The first image was released yesterday via Adam tweeting it. It is the cover art to his upcoming single, If I Had You. For those of you who have been asking..Yes, more photos will be released soon as well as some other fun treats. Enjoy!

Makeup: Sutan Amrull • Hair: Johnny Stuntz • Stylist: David Royer
Digital Tech: Daniel Acuña • 1st Assistant: Scott Hensel • 2nd Assistant: Charlie Brumbly
Behind The Scenes: AJ Morales
Camera Geek stuff: Shot with a mix of The Hasselblad H2 w/ a Phase One P65 back, a Canon 1Ds Mark III, a Canon 5D Mark II for behind the scenes and Profoto lighting gear.

Recent shoot: SYTYCD finalist, Kathryn McCormick

2010-03-06T16:11:00.000-08:00

Recently I had the pleasure of shooting another SYTYCD finalist, Kathryn McCormick. You can see Kathryn and recent client Ellenore Scott both appear on this year's Oscars. Be sure to stop by Kathryn's website and follow her on twitter. Hair and makeup by Sutan Amrull. Enjoy the pics!

Scarlett Cherry's EP "Love You Like" Drops today!

2010-02-14T13:49:00.000-08:00

Scarlett Cherry, aka, my wife's EP "Love You Like" drops today on iTunes, Amazonmp3.com and lala.com. Support independent artistry and talent by downloading. The songs are so great and she has a voice that you can listen to for the rest of your life...trust me.
Please stop by her website to listen to exclusive live performances of "Sweet Child O' Mine" "Whole Lotta Love" and "Get It While You Can" that are not for sale and only available via stream at www.scarlettcherry.com. Also, join her Facebook Fan Page and follow her on Twitter for the latest updates and performance dates...and just to keep things professionally relevant, Photos and artwork by me. Happy Valentine's Day!!

Event Photography is fun. Here's some shot's from Adam Lambert's Birthday.

2010-02-04T12:15:00.000-08:00

My friend Adam asked me to shoot his birthday party. I had a great time doing it. Event photography is its own animal and I have newfound appreciation for it. I look forward to doing it again. There were many awesome, debaucherous shots that will remain private but below are some selects from the party of Adam with some familiar faces. The first picture below will be in the new issue of People Magazine. Enjoy!

Samantha Ronson DJ'd. She's rocked the party.

Adam w/Allison Irehata, Slash and Slash's wife Perla

w/Lindsay Lohan, Ferras, Sutan Amrull, and Sam Sparro

w/Chariman/CEO of RCA/Jive, Barry Weiss and AI Creator, Simon Fuller

w/ The Zodiac Show's Carmit Bachar and Ameenah Kaplan

w/The Zodiac Show's Scarlett Cherry (my wifey)

Recent shoot: SYTYCD finalist, Ellenore Scott

2010-02-01T14:42:00.000-08:00

Recently, I had the pleasure of shooting Ellenore Scott, one of the top finalists from Fox's So You Think You Can Dance. She is a very gifted dancer and an all around awesome person. Below are some personal selections form the shoot. Since there were so many good ones to choose from, that I've started a "Featured Shoot" section on my website which is now featuring Ellenore. The shoot took place The Hollywood Loft. Hair and makeup by the incomparable Sutan Amrull. Styling collaboration by Scarlett Cherry, Sutan Amrull, and Kathryn McCormick. Be sure to stop by Ellenore's website and follow her on twitter to see what she' up to.

Recent Dance shoot: Chuck Maldonado

2010-01-21T17:23:00.000-08:00

I recently shot the very talented, Chuck Maldonado. You can see his dance moves via motion capture as Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, as well as the choreographer of the up coming Stomp The Yard 2. Chuck tweets regularly so be sure to follow him for updates.

Dr. Alex Ledgister launches his website!

2010-01-20T22:11:00.000-08:00

I recently shot a very fascinating individual. His name is Dr. Alex Ledgister. He is a life coach, a former US Marine, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and a dedicated family man with a very inspiring life story. Please stop by his website, www.dralexledgister.com. Below is a Behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot we did. Enjoy!

Profoto Blog blogged me.

2010-01-12T01:58:00.000-08:00

Profoto blog interviewed me last week and posted the blog today. Click to check it out!

Scarlettcherry.com is live!!

2010-01-11T09:19:00.000-08:00

This week marks launch of my wife's website ScarlettCherry.com. I built this website with the help of a great new-tech company called Picaholic.com. This content-rich website features her music, videos and full screen photo backgrounds taken by me. I think this is the new. Please stop by and check it out!

The Zodiac Store is LIVE!!!!

2009-12-16T10:28:00.000-08:00

Hey Folks!! The Zodiac Store is up and running!!! We're starting simple and cool with high-quality, burnout hoodies, tees, tanks and a long sleeve thermal. Come by the store, support freedom, unity, creative expression and rock you some Zodiac Merch!!

Photos by Lee Cherry - Models: Carmit Bachar & Everth Lopez

My photos on the cover of Latino Future w/6 page spread

2009-11-18T11:52:00.000-08:00

Recently I shot Natalia Cigliuti at a mansion in Malibu. The pics are now on the Nov/Dec issue of Latino Future Magazine along with a 6 page spread inside.

Hair and Makeup by Sutan Amrull

Styling by Nonja McKenzie

Assistant: Charlie Brumbly
Camera: Canon 1ds MK III
Lighting: Profoto

Featured on Behance Network's Fashion Served

2009-10-31T00:56:00.000-07:00

Some of may know who Behance Network is..They are an "invite only" professional social network that I am on. They also have an elite network called "served" where they feature what they consider to be the best of their network. They have recently featured me and my Editorial Fashion book on their "Fashion Served" website. I'm sharing space with some really great photographers. Check it out!
http://www.fashionserved.com/Gallery/Editorial-Fashion/324685

Alisan Porter's Album and artwork.

2009-10-26T17:29:00.000-07:00

Alisan Porter's solo Album came out today. She asked me to make the cover art out of some self-portraits that she did. As I write this, she's #1 on Pop and Rock-New release on CD Baby. She is an incredibly gifted human being on many levels. My wife and I were honored to have her sing at our wedding (Track 12 to be specific!) Below is the album art, and below that, her last Zodiac performance. Buy her album here: www.cdbaby.com/cd/Alisanporter

Zodiac 2009 teaser on youtube

2009-10-21T22:14:00.001-07:00

We've uploaded our new Teaser to youtube. Check it out!

From Freedom to Zodiac

2009-10-16T18:31:00.000-07:00

Check out an Interview that Carmit and I did for RockstarWeekly.com. It is a live audio Q&A.

Read/Listen...

Visit www.thezodiacshow.com

2009-10-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

www.thezodiacshow.com

The Zodiac Show has an imdb page!

2009-10-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

We made a Rock Doc of our 9/9/08 Zodiac performance called The Zodiac Show: Metamorphosis to some film festivals. as a result, they gave us an imdb page. Some websites blew that news out of proportion, but whatev's. Check the link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485108/

My first Blog post

2009-10-15T13:25:00.000-07:00

Hey Folks,

I've started a blog. I'll be posting things here. Keep an eye out...