Double Exposure is a docu-series on US cable network Bravo, about celebrity, fashion, and image creation. Bravo follows high fashion and celebrity photography duo Markus Klinko & Indrani

Indrani (photographer)

Indrani is an Indian-Canadian director, photographer, and digital artist. She is known for her work for celebrities, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and fashion magazines...

, and fashion stylist GK Reid

GK Reid

GK Reid is an American fashion stylist best known for his fashion styling work with celebrities and top fashion photographers, as well as for creating his own designs.-Career:...

  behind the scenes of their photo shoots with Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

, Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan

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, Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian

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, Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese

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, stars of 90210

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 and Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl

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, supermodels Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell

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, Alex Lundqvist

Alex Lundqvist

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, Mark Vanderloo

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, and Esquire's "2010 Sexiest Woman Alive", Sports' Illustrated cover model Brooklyn Decker

Brooklyn Decker

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, as well as fashion designers, magazine editors-in-chief, and collaborators like Fashion Week's creator Fern Mallis

Fern Mallis

Fern Mallis in Brooklyn, New York, was the Executive Director of 7th on Sixth productions, the Vice President of marketing for International Management Group models, as well as the Vice President of IMG fashion...

.

Synopsis

Described by American Photo as "Two of photography's biggest talents" and Arena Magazine says "Photography duo Markus Klinko and Indrani

Indrani (photographer)

Indrani is an Indian-Canadian director, photographer, and digital artist. She is known for her work for celebrities, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and fashion magazines...

 have become notorious for producing iconic images." They are known for their images of popular culture icons, from album art for Beyonce, Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

 and David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, to magazine covers of actors from Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

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, Will Smith

Will Smith

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, to Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes

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, and advertising campaigns such as Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

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 for Lancome

Lancôme

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, Mary J Blige for Pepsi

Pepsi

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 and Britney Spears

Britney Spears

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 for Elizabeth Arden

Elizabeth Arden

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 perfumes. GK Reid

GK Reid

GK Reid is an American fashion stylist best known for his fashion styling work with celebrities and top fashion photographers, as well as for creating his own designs.-Career:...

 is known for his avant-garde fashion, creating among others Rihanna

Rihanna

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's breakthrough look for her "Umbrella

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" single cover and reinventing Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

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's image for her Emancipation of Mimi album cover. Jorge Perez, their agent, is also featured as he brokers their deals.

Markus and Indrani provide the TV audience unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to A-list celebrities, and a rare glimpse of the process of creating celebrity and fashion images. Because Markus and Indrani are a duo and former couple, their artistic process is externalized, allowing their collaborators and their viewers to take part in their creative discussions. Unlike other reality shows where celebrities make cameo appearances, "Double Exposure" is based on extensive footage of the celebrities and designers working together with the photographers as co-creators of their real images, which then become an important part of pop culture.

Drama and comedy arise as the pressures mount and the artists are very passionate, interacting in surprising ways. In Touch reports, "The stars are on both sides of the camera... Beyonce got into Markus pants before he fell in love with Britney and went Gaga..." Markus and Indrani are a former couple, who come from opposite perspectives and often disagree, and GK often has to serve as referee. Before they began photography together in 1994, French-Hungarian Klinko was a classical harp soloist who won the "Grand Prix du Disque" for his EMI recording with the Paris Opera Bastille Orchestra. Calcutta-born Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri was an internationally successful fashion model and Princeton University graduate in Anthropology, who founded a charitable school in her home in India. They were first discovered by Isabella Blow

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, then by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 and Iman

Iman (model)

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. They work 18-hour days in high-stress environments, with difficult deadlines, stretched budgets, expensive locations and demanding talent who are their clients and require real results that will become an important part of pop culture.

Critical response

The show has received an unusual amount of media attention. Cosmopolitan states: "The two super famous celebrity photographers, Markus Klinko and Indrani

Indrani (photographer)

Indrani is an Indian-Canadian director, photographer, and digital artist. She is known for her work for celebrities, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and fashion magazines...

...have enough personality to make the Real Housewives look dull." According to Life & Style "The former lovers impress with their client roster and entertain with their fiery personalities."
“The two stars are charming, funny, and talented. Throw in some behind-the-scenes photo material and a few superstar portrait subjects, and you’re looking at something special." (Pop Photo)

LA Times Jon Caramanica suggests that the show is groundbreaking: "Perhaps that's the tipping point for a cultural course correction back toward the value of artifice.

Cosmopolitan reports that ""Double Exposure"... kinda feels like "America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model

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" and "Project Runway

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" mixed together and on speed."

CNN's Showbiz Tonight

Showbiz Tonight

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 interviewed the duo live on July 13 about their shoot with Lady Gaga and Naomi Campbell. On July 20, 2010 Larry King

Larry King

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....

 interviewed Indrani and Markus Klinko on Larry King Live

Larry King Live

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and featured their "Double Exposure" show photos.

Air Dates

"Double Exposure" currently airs in over 50 countries worldwide. Premiered June 15, 2010 at 11 pm/10C on Bravo in the USA.
It airs in Canada, Mondays at 10pm on Cosmo TV, premiering January 10, 2011;
In Australia, Mondays at 9:30pm on Arena TV, premiering January 10, 2011;
In South Africa, Mondays at 7:30pm on DStv, premiering February 21, 2011.
In Mexico, on Fox Life, premiering at 10pm, March 3, 2011
In Asia, on Sony Entertainment Network SET in Thailand, the Philippines, and other countries, premiering August 4, 2011.
In India and China and other Asian countries on AXN.

External links

• http://www.bravotv.com/double-exposure/videos/drama-to-make-people-look-good
• http://www.accesshollywood.com/dish-of-salt/dish-of-salt-its-complicated-on-double-exposure_videotab_1223824
• http://www.markusklinko-indrani.com
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/MARKUS-KLINKO-INDRANI/152378700562?ref=ts