A graduate of Riverhead High School, and recent expat from New York City, Linda Covello has spent her professional career shooting magazine covers, editorials, advertising campaigns, album and cd covers, promotional materials for actors, artists, musicians, author portraits for book covers, as well as covering events around the world from weddings to musical concerts and pop culture to travel and photojournalism.
A top five NYC photojournalist for examiner.com, Covello covered everything from the launch of Lady Gaga's pop up shop at Barney's on Madison Avenue, Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum's tattoo and live music extravaganzas, launches and tastings for the premier food and beverage industry, gallery openings, book launches, film and documentary premieres, the NYC fashion and art scene, as well as every major and minor charity gala and fundraiser the city hosts each year.
Covering New York Fashion Week twice a year, Covello interviews and shoots the designers, hair and makeup artists, models and guests from the world over, backstage and on the street. For thirteen years, she has covered the world's biggest pop culture event, held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on Manhattan's West Side, New York Comic Con, focusing her lens on the creative subculture that is Cosplay.
Covello's camera skills have been described, by those in public relations who have worked with her, as intimate and discrete. Her knack for blending in with guests and VIPs made her an in-demand documenter of the social scene in New York City from 2011 to 2020. Whether shooting backstage at a fashion week show, or covering one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s star studded galas at midtown's Hilton Hotel, the images are always distinguished by what Creative Director Spencer Drate calls the "Covello Eye".
Covello was a featured artist in the launch of the photography wing of the Bergen Museum of Art & Science, in Paramus, New Jersey; the opening of her solo exhibition, "What's The Matter With Kids Today", in Suffern, New York, drew fans of her work from all over, including a live peiformance by the band BLUE SPARKS FROM HELL, featuring members of the popular jam band, RAILROAD EARTH; her portrait of an androgynous model was part of a digital exhibit of photography at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Covello's recent BARBIE POP ART show at the popular Long Island clothing boutique, Paper Doll Vintage, coincided with the opening weekend of the wildly popular BARBIE movie.
Relocating to her home in Wading River, here on Long Island, after leaving the city in 2020, Covello has reconnected with a childhood love for Barbie, amassing a huge body of artwork featuring the iconic doll, using digital and AI apps, to create idiosyncratic montages of MATTEL's most famous toy, blending ennui, sarcasm, wistfulness, uncertainty, and most of all, style, that are the hallmarks of this current time of upheaval and change.
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