Contributors

Published May 25, 2010 @ noon

German photographer NICK RUECHEL moved to Manhattan from Berlin in late 1990. After graduating from business school at New York University with a degree in marketing and international business, Nick decided to pursue a career in the music business working as an A&R talent scout for several record companies before turning to photography in early 1995.

After finishing a three-year tenure as first assistant to celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, he began shooting professionally in 2000. Ruechel's images have appeared in publications such as American Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Men’s Journal, New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Interview, Time, Newsweek, and, at last, Idealog. His portrait of transplanted Kiwi Geoff Vuleta is on page 34.

Despite his first editor's efforts to restrain him, DENIS WELCH escaped into the community and has been at large as a journalist ever since. He is now considered harmless, but past achievements include being the Listener's political columnist for eight action-packed years and writing a biography of Helen Clark (published last year by Penguin).

Like Ladyhawke, he comes from Masterton, but there the resemblance ends. A slow learner, he is currently doing night classes in Maori and Bollywood fusion dance, though not at the same time. Read his story on award-winning Sticky Pictures on page 40.

JONATHAN KING is the writer and director of comedy-horror film Black Sheep and co-writer and director of scary adventure Under the Mountain. He also plays guitar in Wellington band The Dickens and wishes he was better at drawing comics—but at least he knows someone who is. Jonathan’s story on comic-book hero Dylan Horrocks is on page 110.