Miami Artist's Skull Photos
Featured on the
CW Network's The Vampire Diaries
South Florida-based
Photographer/Visual Artist Jonathan Brooks' Skulls Featured on the CW's The
Vampire Diaries Television Series.
Miami, FL, March 25, 2015
--(PR.com)-- Skull images by award-winning
Miami Photographer/Visual Artist Jonathan Brooks will be featured on The CW's
hugely popular and award-winning television series The Vampire Diaries.
The season 6 episode, number
618, is titled I Could Never Love Like That, and airs April 16, 2015 at 8 pm.
"I've loved vampires
since I was a kid," says Brooks. "From the books of Bram Stoker and
Anne Rice, to films like the classic Dracula starring Bela Lugosi to the modern
30 Days Of Night."
He recalled the phone call
he received in mid February. "Hey, we want to use some of your images on
our little show The Vampire Diaries," said Season Six Art Director Rosa
Palomo of Bonanza Productions. "Lucky us!"
The show will be using quite
a few of his photographs and excitement is spreading. The photographer is
having a viewing party for the episode at Deli Lane's Sunset Tavern in South
Miami and has an exhibit called Darkroom scheduled at Pitman Photo in Pinecrest
for the month of April.
Brooks' image Love Floats
was just featured on the German TV primetime show "Nur die Liebe zählt"
(Only Love Counts) on German SAT.1 Television, West Elm will soon be carrying
Dreams from his Cloud series, and his image Over The Rainbow won Best In Show
2014 Photo Of The Year at the inaugural Miami Photo Salon during Miami's
prestigious art week.
His new self-published book
"The True Cuba" is available on Amazon and many of Miami's fine book
stores.
Follow him at
JonathanBrooks.net.
About Jonathan Brooks:
Jonathan Brooks is an award
winning photographer and visual artist, whose work has been exhibited in Art
Basel Miami, New York City, Amsterdam, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Brooks graduated magna cum
laude with a BS degree from the University of Miami with a Communications
Double Major (Advertising and Fine Arts: Photography) and a minor in Marketing.
In 2013, he finished his
first short film 5 SKULLS as a Top Ten Finalist for Digital Photo Pro and HD
Video Pro Magazines' 7th Annual Emerging Pro Still and Motion Competition. The
competition was sponsored by RED cameras, Zeiss lenses, and Adobe. 5 SKULLS can
be found on his website and youtube.
About The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is an
American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and
Julie Plec, based on the popular book series of the same name written by L.
J.Smith. The series premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009.
The pilot episode attracted
the largest audience for The CW of any series premiere since the network began
in 2006. The first season averaged 3.60 million viewers and the show has
received numerous award nominations, winning People's Choice and Teen Choice
Awards.
On January 11, 2015, the CW
renewed the series for a seventh season.
About West Elm
West Elm (stylized as west
elm) is an upscale retail store that features contemporary furniture designs
and housewares. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. There
are currently 59 stores across 25 states in the United States, the Canadian
provinces of Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, as well as Puerto Rico,
London, and Sydney, Australia. Customers are able to shop in-store, online, or
through catalog by calling a toll free number.
West Elm was founded in 2002
and the catalog was released in 2003.
About Miami Photo Salon
Miami Photo Salon is an art
fair where juried images were exhibited during the world-renowned Art Basel
Week in Downtown Miami. Foot traffic between visiting art fairs bring in
thousands of visitors, both from the local community and international
tourists.
Miami Photo Salon is a
Festival created by the nonprofit Cuban American Phototheque Foundation.
About The True Cuba Book
The True Cuba is a book by
author Jonathan Brooks and was funded on the crowd funding site Kickstarter. It
was inspired by the controversial book Vamos a Cuba (Let's Go to Cuba) that was
pulled from the public school's library system by the Miami-Dade School Board
in 2006 and whose legal battle ended on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009.
