Kellie French - Anhedonia / Guardian

KELLIE FRENCH beautifully captures the experience of #anhedonia aka inertia, joylessness, or generally feeling a bit flat... for GUARDIAN. ⁠

Chris Floyd - Esquire / Port Ellen Distillery

ESQUIRE commission CHRIS FLOYD to shoot this beautifully atmospheric story for their summer 2024 edition, documenting life at the PORT ELLEN distillery on the Scottish island of Islay - home of smoky/peaty whiskies 🔥.

 

Phil Fisk - HSBC / HNIV

HEY HUMAN commission PHIL FISK to shoot this beautiful campaign for HNIV, the investment arm of HSBC.

“The shoot was a heady three days with over 30 models. Starting at Shoreditch Studios we shot a mix of black and white portraiture whilst utilising the other studio textures for portraits that could feel more real. The agency wanted a bright feel throughout to incorporate the HNIV overlay and though this was easily achieved in the studio it would be harder work in the location spaces.”

“Styling and props were all overseen by VIC TWYMAN and her team who somehow pulled it all together in a short space of time and with a decent recce we were able to light and redesign the empty offices into multiple scenarios so quick it was like a dream. Big thank you to Peyo Alvarez and Emma Pottinger for sweat, blood but thankfully no tears!”

 

Joseph Ford - Starbucks

JOSEPH FORD was recently commissioned to shoot this wonderful campaign for STARBUCKS.

Huge thanks to WE ARE SOCIAL for the commission and to all our amazing team for bringing these playful photographic illusions to life 🙌☕️✨

 

Joseph Ford - Red Sea Water Park

On a recent trip to Egypt, Joseph was delighted to discover this waterpark on the Red Sea coast. Its architecture obviously inspired by Ricardo Bofill's "La Muralla Roja", which was itself inspired by the architecture of North African casbahs.

The vibrant colours, strong geometric design and graphic inflatables provided ample inspiration for this lovely series of images ❤️🧡💛💚💙🌴💦

 

Kellie French - Observer - Nifty Fitness Hacks

Kellie French explores “Nifty Fitness Hacks” for Observer - and how to improve fitness levels without going anywhere near a gym! - including brushing your teeth while standing on one leg and doing sitting stretches whilst watching tv...

23 easy fitness tips well worth knowing can be found here

Huge thanks to all the team and congratulations on making fitness look so colourful, easy and FUN 🙌

 

Chris Floyd - Zapata Ranch

CHRIS FLOYD recently spent several days shooting at the wildly beautiful ZAPATA RANCH near Alamosa, Colorado. A glorious world of “cowgirls, cowboys, horses, cattle, trucks, denim, stetsons, leather goods, steaks, mountain ranges and bison”.

There he met with Kate Matheson, who he used to work with in the early 2000s when she was a picture editor at Conde Nast magazines in London. About 15 years ago she gave it all up, and in her own words, “arrived at the ranch with a suitcase of clothes and a Le Creuset pot, I got my best friend Pepe and my dream truck not long after. I’ll be leaving with a husband, 7 horses, 3 dogs, two babies and a chicken if we can catch her and at least 2 novels worth of stories.”

Next month she is leaving Colorado to move to Montana with her family, where they are taking over the running of her husband’s family’s ranch. Kate is pictured in the last 3 images and you can hear her story on the Ranchlands podcast here.

Fabulous photos Chris! Such a beautiful insight into ranch life in the American midwest.

 

Joseph Ford - (more!) Dacia

We wanted to share these beautiful landscape format versions of the images Joseph Ford captured for his recent campaign for DACIA, commissioned by PUBLICIS CONSEIL.

The colour tones and details are so lovely its worth a closer look! 🔎✨

 

Joseph Ford - Dacia

Joseph Ford had a blast shooting this campaign for DACIA, focussing on their aftercare and maintenance services in studio and on location in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Like most of the projects Joseph works on, we combined stills and TVC production, shooting alongside the film crew and working with the DoP to integrate the stills and motion lighting for a more efficient production. This allowed the client to reduce costs and enabled Joseph to maximise the number of images he could capture. We love all the details in these beautifully captured ads.

Merci beaucoup to Publicis Conseil and all the team for a wonderful shoot.

🚗💨💨✨

 

Joseph Ford - PX3 Awards Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Joseph Ford is “FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2022” at the PX3 AWARDS in Paris - for his INVISIBLE JUMPERS project, created in collaboration with the amazing @ninadoddknits 🧶. Joseph also won a Gold and a Silver award in two other categories!

Such an inspired, imaginative and stunning series of images. The awards are massively well-deserved and we are super delighted for you Joseph 🏆🥇🎖 🙌

 

Phil Fisk - Ramaswami

Part 2 of Phil’s stunning ALLOTMENT series featuring eccentrics found among the vegetable patches… 🌽🥦🥕 📻 🥬🥒🌶

“Ramaswami Krishnan acquired his allotment to save his marriage. Their house was overflowing with electronic equipment that he had saved from the street and car boot sales since the 1980’s. He retired as a physics teacher twenty years ago and started repairing and taking apart early computers. But the small Victorian terrace soon filled up and he was forced to find a shed of some kind, as long as it was “away from the house”…! By chance a family friend offered a share in his allotment and now old technology and horticulture exist side by side. Kris, as he likes to be called, is yet to fully embrace the digging and planting but he is happy in his new home and there is “finally, peace at home.”

Thanks for the wonderful casting Sue Odell, props by the amazing Vic Twyman and awesome job by all the team 👏

 

Joseph Ford - Arnold Worldwide Part 2

We’re delighted to share a few more of the images from Joseph’s recent healthcare campaign photographed in USA with Arnold Worldwide.

 

Joseph Ford - 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.

 

Phil Fisk - The Grove - still lives...

Simple and symbolic portraits of a place…

These still life shots of DIY skate ramps and structures, environment and community, were captured by Phil Fisk at The Grove DIY in South London, the setting for his beautiful AOP 2022 Awards nominated documentary film (see next post).

 

Phil Fisk - The Grove / AOP Awards

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…

 

Phil Fisk - Andi Oliver, Mikita and Garfield / Observer

PHIL FISK shoots a festive spread for OBSERVER with ANDI OLIVER, her daughter MIQUITA and partner GARFIELD.

Gorgeous set created by @victwyman, featuring delicious recipes by ANDI, "fusing classic elements from her Antiguan heritage with modern preoccupations of reducing waste, eating seasonally and offering delicious vegan options"…

…and plenty of the rum soaked cake left for the team!