Milwaukee Alt.

Hi my name is Ryan Laessig and I am the creator of Milwaukee Alt. Milwaukee Alt. stands for Milwaukee Alternative. This project started in 2006 as something I thought would be a great vision to bring to the local community. I wanted to find the Alternative side of Milwaukee, photograph it, and show how beautiful it is. I started out obviously in tattoo parlors and concerts trying to find alternative lifestyles. I started doing photoshoots of tattoo artists & piercers and the work on their customers. I started falling in love with the beauty I was capturing and wanted to dive deeper into it. Over the years this project has evolved from photographing the tattoo and piercing community into photographing local bands, bars, artists, graffiti artists, models, photographers, skaters, members of the gay community, punks, drifters, cultivators, small entrepreneurs, and just local alternative lifestyle citizens I see at a show or bar. They may strike me as unique and find out how they contribute to the community and can remain themselves in a city of conformity and judgement of how we look, our profession, sexuality, artistic expression, and still to this day maybe looked down upon just because we seem different and someone may not be well informed of our alternative lifestyle choices. SuZy's Photography & Milwaukee Alt. has now formed into a company to connect with the alternative community. Doing photography and advertising for local tattoo shops, clothing designers, bands, model portfolios, and alternative model websites has pushed this company in the right direction. Now expanding to the local community's. Milwaukee Alt. is now showcased on t-shirts, stickers, art galleries, tattoo shops, and websites. Get your Men or Woman's Tee and other apparel, Bumper Stickers, small stickers for city mayhem-ing, or book a photoshoot today :)