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PICTURE SHOW These creative couples share a knack for fashion, art and design. BY BEE SHAPIRO Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg are revolutionizing visual imagery one gif at a time. On a Friday afternoon, Jamie Beck, 30—photographer and one half of the creative husband-wife duo behind Ann Street Studio—was preoccupied with urgent matters. On the terrace of the sunlit, live-work and newly-leased Tribeca studio she shares with her husband Kevin Burg, was a ladder adorned with potted blooms and a few well-positioned, if deteriorating ice blocks. "It's a time-sensitive issue," Beck says, laughing and nodding towards the mini glaciers. Her partner (in more than ways than one) Burg, 31—a Kansas City-born creative director with a graphic design background from Drake University—kept his cool. "We're in the middle of a shoot," he explains. The pair would work through Saturday to make deadline, he adds. "We keep seeing our friends Instagram photos and it seems everyone is in Montauk," Burg says, somewhat 168 BAL HARBOUR wistfully. But if helming a buzzy enterprise requires weekend office hours, at least the long days could be a shared. "We get to be really busy and still see each other," Burg says, while later leading me around their upstairs offices. The generous skylights highlighted framed portraits like the heiress Hannah Bronfman, a ringer for Josephine Baker in a glamorous '30s-inspired shoot, and a playful model wearing a frock by designer Misha Nonoo. Neighboring a couple red boxes stuffed with Polaroids, an impressive collection of Beck's vintage cameras was at the ready. "I was shooting with the 4x5 view camera today," says Beck, intimating that she likes working with everything from old-school Hasselblads to today's HD superstar, such as the Red digital cameras. Indeed, it's their experimentation and genre-bending work that have their clients, which now include such fashion heavyweights as Chopard, Donna Karan,