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JEFF BRIDGES
One of Hollywood’s most successful actors and frequent Academy Award® nominee, Jeff Bridges garnered his first Oscar® for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Crazy Heart—as Bad Blake, a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer. Since earning his initial Oscar nomination in 1971 for The Last Picture Show, he has been honored with seven nominations, most recently for Hell or High Water (2016). In a career spanning nearly 50 years, he has appeared in more than 70 films, among them Seabiscuit, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Starman, and most recently, Bad Times at the El Royale.
Jeff currently stars in and serves as an executive producer on FX’s The Old Man which is currently in its 2nd season. For his role of Dan Chase, he received an Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Through his company, ASIS Productions, he has also produced films and television movies, including the documentary Living in the Future’s Past as well as The Giver, American Heart, The Only Living Boy in New York, and Hidden in America. In 2019, he received the Cecil B. deMille Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his remarkable career
One of Jeff’s true passions is photography. While on the set of many of his movies, Jeff takes behind-the-scenes pictures of the actors, crew and locations. After completion of each motion picture, he edits the images into a book and gives copies to everyone involved. Jeff’s photographs have been featured in several magazines, including Premiere and Aperture, as well as in other publications worldwide. He has also had gallery exhibitions of his work in New York (at the George Eastman House), Los Angeles, London and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. In 2013, Jeff was the recipient of an Infinity Award, presented by the International Center of Photography, NY.
The books, which have become valued by collectors, were never intended for public sale, but in the fall of 2003, powerHouse Books released Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges, a hardcover book containing a compilation of his photographs taken on numerous film locations over the years, to much critical acclaim. In 2019 he released Vol Two. Proceeds from the book are donated to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a nonprofit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.
In February 2015, he released a spoken word/ambient album titled Sleeping Tapes. The collaboration was co-produced with musician Keefus Ciancia.
In 2014 Jeff released the album Jeff Bridges & The Abiders Live. He released his self-titled major label debut album for Blue Note Records in 2011, with Grammy Award–winner T Bone Burnett as producer. That critically acclaimed album was a follow-up to his first solo effort, Be Here Soon.
He is currently the national spokesperson for the Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign that is fighting to end childhood hunger in America. Proceeds from this book will go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a charitable organization offering assistance and care to people in Southern California in the movie and television industries with limited or no resources.
Jeff and his wife, Susan, divide their time between their home in Santa Barbara, California, and their ranch in Montana.
SUSAN BRIDGES
Susan Bridges is an accomplished photographer, artist and philanthropist who has spent her life championing many worthy causes and is the wife and partner of actor Jeff Bridges.
A native of the Midwest, Susan attended the University of Minnesota and University of Montana and in 1974 moved to Los Angeles to begin a new chapter in her life.
Susan attended the ArtCenter College of Design and the California Institute of the Arts to explore the art of photography. She also studied with prolific photographer Lisette Model in New York City where she honed her skills in street or “candid” photography.
Susan has worked as a special still photographer on several feature films including Michael Cimino’s epic Heaven’s Gate, The American Success Company and a film she co-produced, the crime comedy Cold Feet starring Tom Waits, Sally Kirkland and Keith Carradine. Throughout her career she has photographed many iconic artists including Orson Wells, Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bud Cort, Peter Fonda and the Los Angeles Ballet Company to name a few.
Her photographs have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including the Los Angeles Times, Westways and Wet magazines and Whitefish Review and recently has been exhibiting her work to rave reviews.
She travels extensively photographing some of the most exciting places in the world including Egypt, Cuba, Malta and Japan among others. She is an expert in the art of hand tinting, mastering the complex technique that involves the application of color (oil paint and tinting pencils) to black and white photos.
Most recently she has collaborated with Jeff and their two partners Marwan El Mozayen and Charys Schuler—publishers of the photography magazine Silvergrain Classics—to launch SilverBridges, a new company reviving the Widelux camera.
She supports many organizations, including VNA Health, The Food Bank of Santa Barbara, Unity Shoppe, Direct Relief, Livingston Food Resource Center, The Livingston Farm to School Program and Yellowstone Forever. She is a founding member of Vital Ground Foundation, a nonprofit land trust organization that preserves habitat for wildlife in the northern Rocky Mountains.
Most dear to her heart is family. She and Jeff have been married for 45 years and enjoy dividing their time between Santa Barbara and Montana. Susan, a mother of three daughters, loves watching her family grow to include three sons-in-law and four grandchildren.
CHARYS SCHULER
Charys is the Developmental Editor of SilvergrainClassics, and a violinist with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and several chamber ensembles. These activities share many skill sets: digging into details to support the big picture, organizing the leadup to a finale on a set date, and, especially, performing best under pressure. She had her first international solo concert tour at age 12 and has continued the work ethic necessary to give 100% to everything she does. Her passions for photography, music, and writing are rooted in her love of communicating with others; she has developed relationships with artists throughout the world and is a recognized face in analog photography circles. Charys is also a supporter of charities which finance children’s cancer research after actively supporting her son through treatment for neuroblastoma which was diagnosed just after his first birthday.
MARWAN EL MOZAYEN
Marwan is a German photographer, lover and mender of film cameras, and the Editor-in-Chief of SilvergrainClassics print magazine, which focuses exclusively on analog photography and cinematography. He gives photography workshops for the Silvergrain Studio, Leica Headquarters in Germany, and various congresses and events around the world. Marwan has run his own businesses successfully for over two decades and has worked to support photography on analog film since the advent of digital. His early involvement in the German magazine PhotoKlassik gave him the opportunity to develop an extensive network of contacts within the photography industry, and he sponsors B to B meetups which are important to the European film photography sector. In addition to tinkering with mechanical cameras, Marwan also enjoys repairing his classic Volvo cars in his spare time.