Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, stylists and photographers' agents based in Chicago.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• The Chicago International Film Festival celebrates its 59th edition staying true to its original mission: seeking out the best in international cinema, the festival has opened windows to a world of film previously or otherwise unavailable in Chicago. From 11th to 22nd October in different venues around Chicago.
• LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together 12 international artists to share the ways they encounter and understand love. Themes of visibility and adoration recur as concepts embraced by many of the LOVE photographers, as they use portraiture and self-portraiture to affirm many different types of bodies. Until 22nd December at Museum of Contemporary Photography.
• Filter Photo presents I Don't Want to Fall In Love Again, a solo exhibition of work by Eli Craven. This exhibition presents 15 recent works that have been transformed through sculptural, digital, and darkroom manipulation. Through his work, Craven uses both found and original imagery to investigate the image's relationship to the body, sexuality, desire, and death.

Our cover image was shot by Zoe Rain.

Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors and photographers' and illustrators' agents based in Chicago.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Refracting Histories features eight artists looking critically at the traditional canon within the history of photography. Each artist challenges, probes, or deconstructs well-known art historical legacies, revealing the contributions of overlooked makers. Until 3rd April at Chicago's Museum of Comtemporary Photography.
• A Field Guide to Photography and Media - From 19th November to 10th April. The Art Institute of Chicago has been exhibiting photography since 1900 and collecting it since 1949. This exhibition celebrates that remarkable history through the Art Institute’s collection and offers an occasion to think anew about the photography’s place in the museum and in the world.

Our cover image was shot by Tom Michas for PPI Beauty.

Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, photographers' and illustrators' agents, production companies and other creatives based in Chicago.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended event:

• Virtual exhibition What Does Democracy Look Like? - Seven faculty members from various departments at Columbia College Chicago mined the MoCP’s permanent collection of 16,000 objects. Each curator has interpreted the museum’s collection to consider what democracy means and how photographic images record and shape our understanding of current and historical events. Until 23rd December by Museum of Contemporary Photography. 

Our cover image was shot by Brett Nadal. 

Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, photo and film production companies, and hair and make-up artists working out of Chicago.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• In Their Own Form: the exhibition featuring photography and video work of 13 artists, exploring the ways the blackness can be seen without stereotypes and racism. Photographers used the theme of Afrofuturist, which refers to a cross-disciplinary genre combining science fiction, Afrocentrism, fantasy, technology, and non-Western mythologies to reimagine the tense past, present, and future of the transnational black experience. Until 8th July at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
• Memoir of a City: Selections from the David Garrard Lowe Historic Chicago Photograph Collection. The exhibition features the photographs of over 1000 Chicago's historic residences, office buildings, hotels, schools, clubs, transportation, infrastructure, and more. Until 15h June at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our cover image was shot by Jennifer Avello. 

Welcome to Showcase Chicago, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading architecture, interior & exterior, food & drink, people & lifestyle and portraiture photographers, as well as, rental studios, photographers' and illustrators' agents and photo & film production companies, currently working out of Chicago.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Fortune Magazine, Toyota, Prada, Purina, Money Magazine, Time Inc., Club Cadet, Comcast, and Taste of Home Magazine, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• #AiWeiwei - exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, featuring his photographs from the 80s and 90s together with some recent social media-based installations. Until 2nd July at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
• Robert Frank: Photos - exhibition focused on R.Frank's photographs from two books: 'The Americans' and 'Partida'. Until 20th August at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our editorial images were shot in natural light with a Leica camera by Marc Hauser, who was commissioned to go to Cuba back in the 80s, and went through many adventures to complete the assignment. He spent a week in Havana taking photos of street scenes and the Partagas Cigar Factory, the most famous cigar factory in Cuba. See the full story here. 

Welcome to Showcase Chicago brought to you by Production Paradise. This edition features some of the top photographers, photographers agents, hair & make-up artists and photo & film production companies working out of Chicago.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Fashion, Film and Fame: Works from the MoCP Collection - photography exhibition featuring the use of costume, props, pose and stylized camera techniques to communicate narratives about the film industry, celebrities and identity. Until 22nd December at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
• A hole’s made of itself  - photography exhibition by Priya Kambli and Mel Keiser. Until 31st December at Filter Photo. 
• Humanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky - exhibition until 10th January 2017 at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Our cover image was shot by Raul Singson, styling by Erika Degraffinreaidt. 

Welcome to Showcase Chicago brought to you by Production Paradise. This edition features some of the top photographers working out of Chicago, including Colgan Photographic, Cynthia Lynn, Frank Ishman and Joe Pellegrini; hair and make-up artists Alisa Radoi and Frances Tsalas; rental studio The F Stop Studio; studio and equipment rental company ProGear Rental, and location service and scouting company Vinh Lu Locations. 

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Nothing Personal - photo and video exhibition by three artists, featuring ''The Fae Richards Archive'' by Zoe Leonard, ''Untitled Film Stills'' by Cindy Sherman and ''Corridor'' by Lorna Simpson. Until 1st May at the Art Institute of Chicago. 
• Midwest Photographers Project: Hossein Fatemi -  documentary photography exhibition, until 10th July at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 

Our cover image's concept and photography is by Freddy Fabris. Wardrobe by Brandon Frein and Arlene Matthews from Kit This; hair and make-up by Loni Hale; prop styling by Kelly McKaig and retouching by Diego Speroni. 

Welcome to the latest issue of Showcase Chicago brought to you by Production Paradise. In this edition we present the Windy City's leading visual media professionals.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Lecture in Photography: Christian Boltanski, 6pm on 8th December at The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium.
• Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument, until 23rd December at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
• Deana Lawson: Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series, until 10th January 2016 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our cover image was shot by Kourtney Sellers. 

Welcome to the latest issue of Showcase Chicago brought to you by Production Paradise. In this edition we present the Windy City's leading visual media professionals.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Chicago Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• John Gossage: Three Routines - photography exhibition, until 3rd May at the Art Institute of Chicago.
• Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity - photography exhibition from 6th April to 12th July. Opening reception, 9th April at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 
• Lectures in Photography: Broomberg and Chanarin, 30th April at Stage Two. 

Our cover image was shot by Erika Dufour.