BJ and Richeille Formento met in 2005. Born in Honolulu in 1964, BJ arrived in San Francisco in 1982 to do a BFA in photography at the art academy. In 1999 he left for New York and became an assistant for the greatest photographers: Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz. In 2001, he started as a freelance photographer. Richeille was born in London in 1975 and after studying art and design she became artistic director and designer for the biggest brands as well as for independent labels. Married three months after their meeting, BJ and Richeille combine their talents and then combine commercial photographs and art photographs. mastery of light adjustment. An icy and pale light to link loneliness to introspection, against a backdrop of a modern American landscape. Although the location and the protagonist are specific to each shot, the tension rendered by the camera is constant. Each image contains an emotional tension that seems to go beyond the frame of the image, like a cry of psychosis and dread from a suspenseful noir thriller. "We really wanted to shoot something that hit the audience, we walked through lands in a recessionary backdrop where people had lost their homes, their families..."
