The second in a series of a short films by PHIL FISK entitled INSIDE OUT, showing the perspective of people’s inner lives on one side of the window and that of the outside world on the other. The films are deliberately shot in portrait format to fully frame the window.
ANNIAH is a young aspiring actor, who Phil found through a local theatre group - this was her first time acting on camera.
Thanks also to Martin at The Lemonade Factory and Vic Twyman for props and set dressing 🏏!
Kellie French shoots this beautiful series of portraits for Guardian, focussing on kids, teens and beauty ideals…
Huge thanks to our amazing models and team 🙌✨
Delighted to share FRANKIE TURNER’s colourful new work for BILLS - delightful little diners, perfect pancakes and some very pampered pups 😆 🐾.
Frankie’s Xmas 23 Christmas campaign for BILLS will be dropping soon too - watch this space! 🎄✨
More of Phil’s beautifully emotive images from his ‘Garden Portraits’ series, captured using carefully controlled natural light in his garden studio featuring neighbours during lockdown.
We’re delighted to share a few more of the images from Joseph’s recent healthcare campaign photographed in USA with Arnold Worldwide.
After seeing his Invisible Jumpers project, ARNOLD WORLDWIDE commissioned Joseph to work on a multifaceted campaign for a pharmaceutical skin care product including stills, cinemagraphs and films, using the wardrobe and location design techniques he’d developed for his personal project. Shot on location over a two month period in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and California, using real patients in both camouflaged and lifestyle scenarios, Joseph produced over 80 final assets including stills and cinemagraphs.
The overall look of the camouflage areas were developed by Joseph to ensure the patients would melt into their backgrounds and created the wardrobe brief for both stills and TVC.
The shooting process included several remote shoots completed from the UK with a live stream from the camera on set, directing models and lighting whilst his assistant in the USA physically triggered the camera. Stills and cinemagraph post-production was managed by Joseph and Flock for the US agency.
Here’s one of the concepts in full, where the twin swimmers are camouflaged and hidden in their environment to their full reveal post-treatment, living their best lives.
During the lockdowns of 2020 (when official skateparks were closed), a group of enterprising skaters found an abandoned car park near the South Circular and established the beginnings of “The Grove”…
Phil Fisk captured the story of the space in this wonderful film, which we are delighted to announce is a finalist in the Documentary Category at this year’s AOP Awards
In an abandoned pub carpark on the A205 in South London, local kids were creating ramps and an assortment of skate park structures, splicing old gas canisters, wooden planks, pallets, bags of cement, rubble, drinks cans, abandoned sofas - anything and everything, to create their own home-grown skatepark - and likewise establish a safe place for themselves, away from the traffic, the pandemic and authority.
Safe… if you discount the odd broken wrist and elbow graze.
Safe… as an outdoor space where anyone with or without a board could hang out.
Initially they were chased away by security guards but soon found support for their endeavours from local residents, councillors and even Dulwich College Estate who own the land.
Phil filmed the steady transformation of the abandoned space, during the days and nights as winter drew in - “trying to capture the atmosphere, tricks (and constructions) as they happened without interfering with the natural flow of the space.”
The film opens with a shot of the sun coming up over a large tree… set against a soundscape of distant traffic, scrapes and clatters, skateboard wheels rolling over concrete and snippets of caught conversation, the resulting film is beautiful, contemplative and ultimately hopeful…
Phil hopes it, “feels something like a compressed day in the life of The Grove in which 6 months feels like 24 hours.”
Although the future is uncertain, it looks as if, for now, The Grove is here to stay…
A thought provoking short film by CHRIS FLOYD commissioned by global renewable energy company RES, featuring the wonderful CONNIE SAVORETTI.
So simple… ‘Even A Child Could Understand It'…
Chris Floyd finds himself amid a sea of hugs….
After 604 days, the US pandemic travel ban was lifted on Monday 8th November 2021, and separated families could once again meet.
BRITISH AIRWAYS invited Chris to document the emotional reunions as passengers from flight BA001 entered JFK's arrival hall and into the arms of their loved ones.
Chris was commissioned by THE NATIONAL LOTTERY to photograph 13 'unheralded champions of the arts sector', who have all undertaken wonderful creative projects throughout the pandemic to keep the spirit of their communities alive...
These awesome projects are funded by the massive £30million raised each week for good causes by National Lottery players.
Featured here are just a handful of the inspiring creators and founders from projects such as OPEN BOOK in Scotland where Liz Treacher hosts creative writing sessions to combat loneliness; Vic Brown in Tamworth whose creative arts project NEW URBAN ERA has launched a new online platform for beatboxers, street artists, breakdancers and schools to collaborate during the pandemic; and Maria Connolly, founder of 1 ELEVEN THEATRE in Belfast who performs socially distanced theatre (as Judy Garland, Bette Midler and Marilyn Monroe) to elderly people with dementia. You can read more inspiring stories here.
The portraits are currently being exhibited at eight galleries around the UK including IKON, the MAC Belfast, the PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY, BFI Southbank and the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, London here.
In a new term after the challenges of lockdown, the charity CHEFS IN SCHOOLS is providing 11,000 London students with fresh, nutritious and creative food.
PHIL FISK captured these awesome chefs, (who previously worked at St John and Nopi) in action at Woodmansterne School, Lambeth and Little Jungle Nursery in Dulwich for OBSERVER.
School dinners are definitely not how we remember them…!
We are super happy that this MEN'S HEALTH cover of 15 year old Andrew, one of 4 different boys photographed by CHRIS FLOYD at Oasis Academy in Waterloo, has been nominated for “Cover of the Year” in this year's PPA Awards. (Remaining 3 covers are shown below)
As it’s a public vote we'd love it if you could head over and vote for Chris! Here's the link: https://ppacoveroftheyear.co.uk
Thank you :))
And please read below the words of MH editor Toby Wiseman that accompanied the issue.
“You’re probably thinking that these don’t look like regular Men’s Health covers.
That’s because they’re not.
Over the past five years, we’ve increasingly devoted our attentions to the parlous state of mental health in men.
We’ve been single-handedly responsible for that wretched statistic - that for men under 45, the things most likely to kill you is you - becoming common knowledge.
But recently it has felt like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
It’s all very well telling people that 25% of men who take their own lives have visited their GP in vain just the week beforehand. But what about the months and years leading up to that cataclysmic decision? With any other illness, the emphasis would be on prevention rather than cure.
Maybe we’re looking for answers in the wrong place at the wrong time. What has planted those seeds? When did they take root?
The kids on these covers are aged 15/16. They have doubtless been dealt a worse hand than most. As pupils of a school that, despite being rated outstanding, resides in one of the most deprived areas in the country, they face issues that the majority of teenagers will never have to confront.
But thanks to progressive attitudes, excellent support and inspirational leadership, these kids are managing their situations with poise, stoicism and profound eloquence.
These teenagers, their teachers and the help they receive have comprehensively changed my opinion about the problems we face and the best way to broach them. Please buy the issue and read their story. Then, when you’re done, consider lending your support to our #GiveThemAHeadStart campaign. It’s what Men’s Health is all about.”
Creative endeavours at JOSEPH FORD's home-school...
With a little help from his apprentice assistants he's been creating some lego-busting wrecking-ball footage.
We are delighted to announce that JOSEPH FORD's photographic project "INVISIBLE JUMPERS" has been short-listed for the SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2020.
Joseph's images together with all the winning and shortlisted entries (over 600 photographs in total) will be on show at this year’s SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS EXHIBITION at SOMERSET HOUSE in London from 17 APRIL to 04 MAY 2020. For tickets and further information please click here.
CHRIS FLOYD shoots local under 11s football team, a disabled minibus group and a senior citizens’ social club in Watford for THE SUN '£1 Million to Good Causes' campaign. Creative Direction by Rob Welch for PULSE CREATIVE.
Lovely new portrait amongst the Cherry Blossom from Joseph’s Knitted Camouflage series.
Seth Globepainter is one of the world’s best known street artists. For the last 15 years he has been working around the theme of childhood. Joseph met him when they were artists in residence at MAUSA museum of street art in Alsace last year (Joseph photographed him infront of his work THOR which you can see in his folio.)
Seth had painted a series of murals around the Marché des Batignolles in the 17th in Paris, all based on children’s books which were the perfect backdrop for another playful portrait in Joseph’s Knitted Camouflage series.
