Joseph Ford's most recent collaboration with creative knitter @ninadoddknits bring us this gorgeous exploration of camouflage and yellowness... 🧡💛🌞🌾🌞💛🧡 🛹
Delighted to share this stunning publication featuring images from the "knitted camouflage" collaborative project between Joseph Ford and creative knitter, Nina Dodd.
"L'ART DU FIL" is a sumptuous collection of colourful and richly textured textile art and is available in all good bookshops.
Huge thanks to Marie-Madeleine Massé and @editionsalternatives for featuring the work, and to @ninadoddknits for the amazing creative collaborations, as always 🍉 🧶 💚💛❤️
We’re delighted to share the news that one of Joseph Ford’s #knittedcamouflage images has just been announced as the ‘People & Lifestyle” winner in the 2021 Spotlight Awards.
Congratulations Joseph 👏👏👏!
https://www.productionparadise.com/blog/spotlight-awards-2021-all-winners-are-announced/
LA VITA BELLA...
Late last summer CHRIS FLOYD took a trip to Portofino, the jewel of the Italian Riviera, to shoot with JACK SAVORETTI for his new album, EUROPIANA.
In Chris's words...
"Jack spent all his childhood summers in Portfino and the whole vibe of the album is a quest to recapture that feeling you had in your younger years when the summers never seemed to end and the thrill and excitement of going out, dancing and meeting new people was wide open and there for the taking."
* More music, images and artwork to be released over the coming months
PHIL FISK gets DOWN TO EARTH with REBECCA SCHILLER for OBSERVER on her smallholding in Kent, capturing a touch of animal magic amongst the goats, chickens and tiny horses.
Ever wondered about the correct cut of sandwich for a Sunday Drive?
Or the rules of the game "Curious Horse"?
Or the whereabouts of the Cross of Greet...?
CHRIS FLOYD takes an enlightening "Sunday Drive" through Lancashire's Forest of Bowland with fashion designer PATRICK GRANT.
Film and photography commissioned by BMW.
BMW commission CHRIS FLOYD to shoot designer PATRICK GRANT for a short film and photography series entitled "SUNDAY DRIVE". Below are selected images from their adventures through the Forest of Bowland, accompanied by a flask of coffee, some Honeywell’s sausage rolls and a 1920’s Bakelite picnic set that was “heavier than the both of us combined.”
Chris finds himself surrounded by early morning wild swimmers… but somehow resists the temptation to jump in himself!
#brrrrrrrrrr
Super stoked for Joseph to receive an honourable mention at this year’s Urban Photo Awards part of Trieste Photo Days festival for this image from his Invisible Jumpers series.
Back in 2014 Joseph Ford created a project with the assistance of amazing knitter Nina Dodd.
They decided to focus on the idea of a CORONAVIRUS lurking in wait for a human encounter, so Nina and her friend Sue creating a giant knitted microbe for the purpose.
At the time, when Joseph showed people his work, most were unfamiliar with the concept but now his images feel horribly relevant…
Legendary Set Designer SHONA HEATH photographed at her Dalston studio by CHRIS FLOYD for SOTHEBY'S. She holds MAX ERNST'S 'Terre de Feu' painted in 1956. Full article 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.
"PaperBoy" was over 2 years in development. His suit took over a year to create using many rolls of paper, glue and tape (as well as a good deal of blood sweat and tears!). The shoot took place over 2 days on location in Brighton with locals stopping for selfies on the beach with the extraordinary blue Paperboy!
Our amazingly calm and patient model Sid, spent 2 days sealed inside his paper suit, unable to hear (or see properly) through the close-fitting mask. At one point almost taking a wrong turn into the sea which would have been disastrous!
Huge thanks to Jaina Minton, Laura Walters, Amelia Ellison, Sid Hanson-Kahn, Woody Cook, Lucas Bonacorso, Jack Cox, George Laycock, Georgia Meinert, Poppy Gooch, Jonny, James Hole, Captain Seadogs Barber Shop and to Fatboy Slim for kindly allowing use of his music for the soundtrack.
Take a look behind the scenes at "the making of PAPERBOY"...
A breath-taking new commission by JOSEPH FORD for SCHÖN MAGAZINE.
Exploring the challenges of teen life, Paperboy is a metaphor for being a little bit different.
The amazing Jaina Minton dedicated an unreasonable amount of her time (blood, sweat and tears!) to creating Paperboy’s suit. Huge shout out to Sid who managed to keep calm inside the Paperboy suit for two days!
A breath-taking new commission by JOSEPH FORD for SCHÖN MAGAZINE.
Exploring the challenges of teen life, Paperboy is a metaphor for being a little bit different.
The amazing Jaina Minton dedicated an unreasonable amount of her time (blood, sweat and tears!) to creating Paperboy’s suit. Huge shout out to Sid who managed to keep calm inside the Paperboy suit for two days!
Chris photographs Kate Spicer and Wolfy, the subject of her new book “Lost Dog” for Harrods Magazine. The top 10 bestseller is a sharply observed biography of a middle aged woman trying to steer some order into a life that is going off the rails. Well worth a read.
Chris shoots actress/comedian/writer Aisling Bea and decorative artist Kaffe Fassett MBE for Anthropologie's new magazine "A".
Since 2016, Berry Bros. & Rudd, London wine merchants founded in the 17th century, have commissioned a different artist each year to design the label for their much loved 'Good Ordinary Claret'. In 2019 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard were commissioned to produce the label and they recreated a long forgotten Victorian invention - the multigraph - which, by clever arrangement of mirrors, allows people to be photographed in such a way as to render 5 versions of the sitter, all at different angles in the final image. Iain and Jane adapted the original invention by laster cutting the bottle's silhouette into the edges of the two mirrors that meet in the middle and slotting the bottle into the available hole. This clever trick and use of 21st century technology allowed for a final image with just one bottle but 5 wine glasses, the idea being that 'one bottle may nourish many glasses'. This photographed image then became the label for Berry Bros. & Rudd 2019 Good Ordinary Claret.
Joseph's "knitted camouflage" project with Nina Dodd has now been published by Hoxton Mini Press as a beautiful hard-back book entitled 'Invisible Jumpers'. The book features 25 pieces of bespoke knitwear worn by humans, dogs and bananas alike - blending seamlessly into their surroundings thanks to more than 1000 hours of knitting and endless hours lining up the camera for the perfect shot.
Selected images from Jonathan's recent personal and pensive study, 'Chair Diary'.