Karen Moskowitz

I picked Karen Moskowitz not only for her various celebrity subjects, but for her portfolio #3 on her website :  http://www.karenmoskowitz.com/
She has a wide variety of subjects from Sean Combs to Lisa Lampanelli to dogs to weird little rat looking animals with a furry ball tail?? She's done work for many clients from Wired and Vanity Fair to Absolut and Forbes.
She studied photography at Indiana University and then moved to Seattle where she started taking photos of her musician friends. She is apparenlty known for creating her concepts around the personality of the subjects, so her work is liked by many.
The site does not tell you much about Karen but I was drawn to the her portraits because they seem to have a lively character about them. They are colorful and most seem to show you more about the person or subject within the photograph and not have the background detach or distract you from that subject. Her portfolio is welcoming to me and exciting.