Stephen “Omar” Newman, Commercial Photographer & Director of Photography
OMM PRODUCTIONS is headed by Stephen "Omar" Newman and is staffed with a seasoned crew of professionals in the visual and auditory arts, specializing in motion and still photography for advertising, corporate, and commercial work.
• We complete quality work on time and within budget.
• We have captured products ranging from small gear parts up to large nature and recreation facilities.
• We have also completed numerous projects recording the human form and voice, with special emphasis on music related subjects and clients.
• Let us address your communications needs from concept to final product – we are savvy in the finest of digital and analog techniques.
The photograph is an image of experience, an event, and a look into the past, above all: a vehicle to remembrances.
I started out taking pictures and work in the dark room when I was seven years old. I then attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies. In the summer of 1973 I was invited to be head photographer of the Melville Barrons ad agency of Mexico City where I was involved with Helena Rubinstein and Latin American Vogue magazine for the Tango Look Campaign. After that enterprise in Mexico City, I was invited by Ted Nugent and his Amboy Dukes to go on tour with him for two months. I was staff photographer for Creem Magazine, Rock Shots Magazine, Heavy Metal Magazine, and Vidiot Magazine. My cinematographic commercial work started out in 1981 at De Leuuw Ferguson advertising agency of Birmingham Michigan with the projects of “Fairlane Flash 4 Season” and Hillel Day school/promo campaign. I'm licensed on Panavision cameras. My body of work contains images from music shows and videos, album covers, unique portraitures, still lifes, and interior and exterior architectural work. I've staged several fine art showings in a gallery setting. There is no commercial endeavor in the multimedia framework that is beyond my past experience, and I know I'll be able to serve your commercial needs.