August 9, 2011
Featured on Las Vegas Wedding blog of Bridal Spectacular
Full article here
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January 2011
Spectacular Bride features our work on their cover
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November 2009
FEATURED ON THE COVER OF PDN MAGAZINE!
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November 2009
Featured in PhotoPro’s annual Masters issue. It’s really, really nice to be featured in a national magazine, but to be included in a masters issue as one of the visionaries of our industry and is such an honor for us.
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For more information, or for an interview please contact:
Dalisa Cooper – info@altf.com
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October 1, 2009
The Altf Studio is born
If Dalisa and I were more secretive this might just be a teaser post saying that “we have some super secret exciting news and we can’t let the cat out of the bag just yet but please keep checking back later for our uber cool announcement”. But, as most of you know, Dalisa and i are pretty open about our business and the direction that our photography is headed. So, when we committed today and set in motion the fulfillment of a 23 year old dream, we just could not wait to tell everyone.
The announcement: After 23 years of waiting and dreaming we are finally opening up under our name and brand – our very own kick ass Studio!
coming very soon:
yeah!
.jmc.
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December 14, 2008
Contact: Dalisa Cooper
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 702-860-3653
Email: info@altf.com
http://www.altf.com/
FROM VEGAS WITH LOVE
altF brings home Photographer of the Year Award
Sometimes, the world just isn’t enough.
Although renowned throughout the globe, Thursday’s award of Photographer of the Year by the Wedding Professionals of Las Vegas heralds John Michael Cooper’s arrival home at last—and in, of all places, the wedding capital of the world.
Mark Shaffer and Tammy Shaw awarded John Michael and Dalisa Cooper their latest recognition in a room filled with enthusiastic fans, and stiff competition from other photographers. To be considered, businesses must exhibit strict practice and ethics standards that are second to none, and receive nominations from other wedding vendors, brides and clients. Belonging to a prestigious crew like the WPLV is one thing: Being named its top agent for 2008 is enough to make the Coopers feel stirred, but not shaken.
Celebrated nationally and internationally for its inspired pictorials, John Michael Cooper’s wedding photography business altF, works overtime for discerning clients. A name people exhale in awe (that’s passion, not asthma), from the New York Times toPhoto Pro Magazine, altF is the established, preferred vendor of: Ritz Carlton at Lake Las Vegas, The Stirling Club, Red Rock Casino, JW Marriott, Pauite Golf Course,Dragon Ridge Golf Course, Reflection Bay at Lake Las Vegas, Anthem Country Cluband Four Seasons Resort.
Earning his ‘double-o’ status, John Michael Cooper, a 22 year photography veteran, is shooting things his own damned way, and with a middle Goldfinger aimed squarely at tradition. From high volume Vegas style weddings to extravagant events across the country, John first arrived into international attention because of his unconventional approach in conjunction with a “dress unfriendly” concept of art that inspired the current Trash the Dress craze that is consuming brides and changing their views of photography as they know it.
Dalisa Cooper, with her many years of experience in the publishing and marketing end of the wedding industry, is the Ms. Moneypenny of altF – ensuring nobody does it better than JMC.
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Contact: Dalisa Cooper
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 702-860-3653
Email: info@altf.com
http://www.roadsidefamilies.com/
INTRODUCING ROADSIDEFAMILIES.COM
Photographers Photographing Photographers Photographing Photographers
Photographer John Michael Cooper and his subjects get on like a bride on fire.
Cooper’s AltF photography studio has built its business in the only way it could: with explosive passion and a middle finger aimed squarely at convention. Now, a ‘pay-it-forward’ project fresh from the minds of AltF defies yet another tradition.
Aware that photographers and their families are too-often neglected on film, John Michael and Dalisa Cooper decided enough was enough. No sooner than that, and with a quick rap to the backside, naked and full of life, roadsidefamilies.com was born on an inflatable couch.
The rules of roadsidefamilies.com are simple: A professional photographer photographs the family of another professional photographer and then delivers the files and a print for their wall. No money changes hand, but plenty of history is exchanged and framed in innocence, unlike Cooper’s Bonnie and Clyde newlywed models that look guilty as sin.
Whether a photographer’s family is the standard, nuclear Brady Bunch of perfection or a man and his goldfish, the rules remain clear: Once someone photographs another family of a professional camera-wielder, the subject has 30 days to photograph someone else’s family. Easy? John and Dalisa think so.
Though the traveling plastic, inflatable sofa now resides in a recycling bin somewhere inside of Las Vegas, Nevada, (what happens in Vegas…), what began 37 families and 6,800 miles ago continues today, so long as the chain of photography (and the spirit of altruism) endures, recording those visages of modern-day storytellers in film.
Roadsidefamilies.com is located at http://www.roadsidefamilies.com/.
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For more information, or to request an interview, please contact:
Dalisa Cooper info@altf.com