From 1996 to 2000 Max was the staff photographer for The New Yorker, second after Richard Avedon and is the first Indian photographer to shoot covers for French and American Vogue.
10 Facts About Max Vadukul
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Max Vadukul was born 1961 to an Indian family in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Max Vadukul's family moved to Northern London when he was a teenager.
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Max Vadukul did not complete high school, but developed an interest in photography after his father took a job at the Carl Zeiss lens company.
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Max Vadukul has long standing relationships with The New Yorker, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue, W Magazine, Interview, and Rolling Stone.
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Max Vadukul was discovered in 1984 by the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, who assigned the then 22-year-old Max Vadukul one of his prestigious ad campaigns.
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In 1996 the producers of the Broadway musical "Chicago" asked Max Vadukul to create the new show's image; the dark, stylized black-and-white portraits he took remain the basis for the show's current campaigns.
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Max Vadukul has lived in Paris and London and now resides in New York with his wife Nicoletta Santoro.
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Max Vadukul had his first US solo gallery show in 2011 at 212 Gallery in Aspen, Colorado titled, "Kinetic Force".
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Max Vadukul had a group show at The Wapping Project Bankside for "Yohji's Women" in London, England in 2011.