Susan Shacter

Susan Shacter is a New York based photographer and video director whose portraits have been published in The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), In Style, Graphis, Vibe, Bomb, Glamour, British and American editions of Elle, Seventeen, Esquire, Interview, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and Vanity Fair. She has done posters and special shoots on movies for Miramax Films, CanalPlus, Merchant Ivory Productions, October Films, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and Universal Pictures; and CD covers for Virgin, Arista, Universal and Sony Music. Some of her more well known subjects include Nicole Kidman, Usher, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica Simpson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Benicio del Toro, Gary Oldman, Drew Barrymore, Samuel L. Jackson, Julia Stiles, Liv Tyler, Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Claire Danes, David Lynch, Iggy Pop, Sean Penn, Jesse Jackson and Hillary Rodham Clinton Shacter’s work has been exhibited at Emporio Armani in New York City, as well as in group shows at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn NY, The International Center of Photography, NYC; Staley Wise Gallery, NYC; Feigen Contemporary, NYC; The Forbes Gallery, NYC; Soho Photo, NYC; and The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC.

Her book of black and white portraits Caught In The Act: New York Actors Face To Face, a collaboration with the writer Don Shewey, was published by New American Library. Her work has been included in several books; among them Vanity Fair’s Hollywood and Broadway Day and Night. She is a contributing editor on theater and film to Bomb Magazine. Shacter can currently be seen on various movie channels playing a fashion photographer in Rob Morrow’s feature film Maze, starring Laura Linney.