A: I'm doing great! Just relaxing after a long week. I got married last weekend so it feels good to have some down time.
Q: Oh yeah, I bet! So, how did you come up with the name, Sutton & 58?
A: I grew up spending my summers in New York City. When I was younger I used to dream of moving there and becoming a professional fashion photographer. Everything about the city excited me. It was awake and vivid and always changing. It was a live art form. Sutton Place and 58th street are at the far east side of what is considered midtown; the center of Manhattan. Home to architectural marvels such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building and wrapped up in the world's most famous commercial playgrounds such as, Time Square and Rockefeller Center. Midtown New York is the country's largest commercial, entertainment, and media center. I really wanted to keep these elements in mind when creating Sutton & 58. That pull and push you see in art. The rough edges of a major city bustling with culture and raw, unsifted beauty set against the sleek marble of upper east side lobbies where residents pay to be key holders to Gramercy Park. Sutton & 58 merges culture and humanness with sleek and modern design, leading to innovative and cutting-edge marketing infrastructure.
Q: I love the picture that paints. New York is such a fun place to visit. If you could sum up what you do in just one sentence what would it be?
A: Okay..give me a second to think about that. " We are a digital marketing agency with a twist; we believe in relationship building and real connections "
Q: Yeah, it's crazy how this day in age we're losing actual human contact.
A: Wait..sorry to interrupt, but I actually have a theory on this..I think people are lonely and want to feel special and actually want to be vulnerable but don't know how or are scared, so they form these online relationships and invest all this time in those, collecting Facebook friends and likes and shares like canned goods for an earthquake survival kit. But in reality, they are just getting more lonely. There is nothing equivalent to human contact. That's why Sutton and 58 is so unique actually (see you didn't think I could bring it back around) but we're working online all the time and helping our clients build their brand, etc. but we are equally invested in relationship building and the value that we know comes from forming real connections. Ok, I've said my piece.
A: That's really cool. There's lots of digital marketing firms popping up all over these days, why should someone choose to work with Sutton & 58?
Q: Our experience. Collectively we are such a rad team. Really, that I have to say first. We are an innovative bunch who value beauty and interconnectedness. We also work on a sliding scale so that no matter what your budget is, we are a firm that is accessible to anyone.
A: Ok, one more question, just for fun.
Q: Shoot.
A: You have a blog post entitled, " 5 Images That Will Make You Rethink Everything You Know", ( which is awesome by the way) . If you could buy one photograph right now what would it be?
They're hanging in Wendy Foster's Santa Barbara store right now and will soon be shown in my friend, Cate Claydon's brilliant gallery, Inez in Los Olivos. Totally obsessed.
