David Mecey
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David Mecey began working with Playboy magazine in the fall of 1979, serving as staff photographer and later as Contributing Photographer. During his career at Playboy, David has had numerous solo pictorials including; “The Girls of Texas”, and "Women of Wall Street”. Along with his buddy David Chan, he also worked on all of the college girl pictorials produced since 1980. To date, David has found 20 Playmates of the Month, including 1998 PMOY Karen McDougal, Miss May 2000 Brooke Berry, Playmates Suzi Schott and Suzi Simpson.
David has also been called on to shoot such celebrities as Michael Keaton, Peter Horton, Robert Palmer, Ray Liotta, Sparky Anderson, Brooke Shields, Linda Carter, Rachel Hunter, Carmen Electra, and Sharon Stone.
In addition, David has been busy with various editorial and advertising assignments from around the world. He was called on to shoot Petersen Publishing’s Sport magazine swimsuit issue for four years, culminating with a broadcast on ESPN, ESPN-2, and PRIME TICKET. David served as its narrator. He also landed an acting stint in a made-for-TV movie titled Posing, which aired on CBS. While working as a technical advisor on the film, David was tapped by the director to play a fictional Playboy photographer.
Living in Los Angeles gives David options to work on many new and exciting projects, such as an ad campaign for a new line of cosmetics, M Professional. He works regularly on various swimsuit and lingerie catalogs, posters, and calendars. David utilizies Apple computers for their powerful retouching and design capabilities when working on the digital side of photography .
Since 1991, David has been a spokesperson/consultant for TAMRON-BRONICA, a manufacturer of cameras and lenses. His duties extend to shooting photographs for ads, consulting on lens quality & design and speaking at trade shows and seminars around the country.
Never one to stay idle, David started a men’s lifestyle magazine in 2000, titled Ego. Currently, David is running a workshop FotoFantasyCamp, to share his glamour photography techniques.
David’s passions also extend to participating in various club and club racing events for the BMW/CCA car club. Besides being a driving instructor for BMW, he also races at various racetracks throughout the Western part of the U.S. David continues to live and work out of Los Angeles, California.
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Photographer David Mecey began working with Playboy magazine in the fall of 1979 where he soon became staff photographer moving to Chicago. In 1987 he left the magazine’s staff position and took a title change to Contributing Photographer where he would continue until 2002.
During his career at Playboy, David had numerous solo pictorials including; “The Women of Ma Bell”, “The Women of Braniff”, “The Girls of Texas”, "The Women of Alaska", “The Girls of Florida”, and "The Women of Wall Street”. Along with buddy David Chan, he worked on all college girl pictorials produced from 1980 through 2002. He found Playmate Suzi Schott and photographed her gatefold in 1981, when a decade later he would also find and photograph Playmate Suzi Simpson’s gatefold. During his tenure with the magazine David found 19 Playmates of the Month including Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal.
Just to name a few of the celebrities he has photographed, they include Michael Keaton, Jay Leno, Robert Palmer, Carl Weathers, Brooke Shields, Linda Carter, Michelle Green, Carmen Electra, and Sharon Stone.
David’s history also spans a number of editorial and advertising assignments from around the world. He was called on to shoot Petersen Publishing’s Sport magazine swimsuit issue four times. The final year culminating with a broadcast on ESPN, ESPN-2, and PRIME TICKET where he would serve as narrator. He was also thrown into an acting stint in a made-for-TV movie titled POSING aired on CBS, when, while working as a technical advisor, the director tapped David to play the fictional Playboy photographer in the movie instead of their actor.
In 2002 David began a workshop series called, David Mecey’s FotoFantasyCamp (www.fotofantasycamp.com) that has grown to become one of the premier photographic workshops in the world. Having been featured in American PHOTO, David brings a select number of photographers together to a fantastic location for four days of intensive training in his style of lighting, posing, rapport with models, everything that makes up professional level photography. With David at their side they experience all of that while gaining vast amounts of information to take with them for their work at home.
Along with his passion for photography David also has a passion for cars. So for the past decade he has pursued road racing as a way to relax. Beginning within the national BMW car club he moved up to instructor where he is currently a chief driving instructor for the LA Chapter. He has also had the opportunity to instruct for a number of performance driving schools including Skip Barber, Jim Russell, and Driving Concepts. He has competed in a number of endurance races including two 25 hr races where David's team finished 3rd in class and 2nd in class two successive years. David continues to live and work out of Venice, CA.
His clients and editorial work include:
American PHOTO, American Swimwear, Arena, Bikini, Camera Arts Magazine, Cream, Esquire, Ego Magazine, Forbes, Ocean Drive, Playboy, Studio Photography & Design, SPORT, Swimwear USA, The Hollywood Reporter, US News and World Report, Variety
His celebrity clientele includes:
Brooke Burke, Brooke Shields, Carmen Electra, Jay Leno, Michael Keaton, Ray Liotta, Robert Palmer, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Marcil, Victoria Silvestedt
His advertising clients include:
ABC-TV, AT&T, Budweiser, Dreamgirl International Lingerie, Leg Ave, Lowry’s, M PRO Makeup, MGM-UA, NBC-TV, Shirley of Hollywood Lingerie, Tamron-Bronica, VH-1 Entertainment, Venus USA, Well Body
On-air work:
Principal role in CBS movie-of-the-week, Posing, which starred Linda Carter, 1992
Principal interview on the Vickie Lawrence Show, Vicki!
Interviewed on various Good Morning Shows throughout his career, including New York, Boston, and Miami
Appeared on the VH-1 special in 2004, Centerfold Babylon
Photographer and on-air personality on Playboy’s Sexy Girl Next Door TV series, 2 years
Still photographer and on-air personality for The Making of SPORT magazine’s Swimsuit Issue, Hawaii, 1995
