Joseph Ford - Network Rail

EVOKE MIND + MATTER commission JOSEPH FORD to shoot a new public safety campaign for NETWORK RAIL. We cast, produced and created the CGI bubbles in post-production for our client.

“BEWARE THE BUBBLE” focusses on those using footpath level crossings, where in the last 3 years, 19 pedestrians and cyclist’s lives have been lost, with 5 in the last 2 years involving dogs…

Huge thanks to all those involved in the creation of these beautifully crafted ads 🙌.

 

Joseph Ford X Morley - Impossible Street Art #4

More work from a new project by Joseph Ford - IMPOSSIBLE STREET ART -⁠ created in collaboration with renowned street artists to showcase the work they would create if there were NO LIMITS... ⁠

4/8 JOSEPH FORD X MORLEY. Subway, Los Angeles.

Morley is a street artist and author whose iconic typographic posters feel like feel like "love notes, private jokes, public secrets or a last testament"... he wheatpastes them at locations throughout the city of Los Angeles.

 

Chris Floyd - Berry Brothers Rudd / Chateau Lafite

CHRIS FLOYD has been creating beautiful work for clients BERRY BROTHERS RUDD for several years now. He was recently commissioned to travel to the rolling terroire of the CHATEAU LAFITE vineyard in Bordeaux where he met executive chairwoman Saskia Rothschild and her wonderful team, who together produce the much heralded wines from the estate (which has been in Saskia’s family for 160 years).

Chris felt it was a real privilege to have such extensive access to the estate whilst creating this body of work, and was delighted to be able to capture some beautiful perspectives on the people and the place. We have pleasure in sharing a selection below.

 

Joseph Ford X Ador - Impossible Street Art #2 / #3

IMPOSSIBLE STREET ART - a stunning new project by JOSEPH FORD created in collaboration with renowned street artists to showcase the work they would create if there were NO LIMITS... ⁠

Here, Joseph collaborates with Ador - celebrated French street artist, renowned for his imaginary characters inspired by fairy tales, circus spectacles, and current events.⁠.

2/8 ⁠. JOSEPH FORD X ADOR. Pantheon, Paris.⁠

3/8⁠. JOSEPH FORD X ADOR⁠. Seven Sisters, UK⁠

Watch this space for more amazing images from this series coming soon 🙌🙌🙌

 

Joseph Ford X Denis Meyers - Impossible Street Art #1

Flock are delighted to introduce a new project by JOSEPH FORD created in collaboration with a global roster of renowned street artists.

IMPOSSIBLE STREET ART is an ongoing project showcasing “the work street artists would create if there were no limits”... in terms of scale, accessibility, safety, regulations etc, throwing open a world of potential to create work on landscape-scale vistas and inaccessible or protected sites of architectural heritage - ranging from England's Seven Sisters chalk cliffs to the Pantheon in Paris and the centre strip of a Los Angeles freeway.

Over the coming weeks we will be featuring the first 8 artworks, starting here with an image created in collaboration with Belgian typographer / 'urban artist' DENIS MEYERS, whose previous work ranges from live painting performances, skateboard and beer glass designs to painting an astonishing 25,000 m² of an abandoned building which was scheduled for demolition…

Please scroll down for a peek behind the scenes on location at the National Theatre (a grade 2 listed building designed by Brutalist architect Denys Lasdun in 1963) on London’s South Bank - plus an insight into the amazing creation process!

Please watch this space for more of Joseph’s collaborative artworks coming soon ⚡️

 

Phil Fisk - Chanel Contos / Australian

Phil Fisk shoots the amazing Chanel Contos for Australian Magazine.

In 2021 her online petition to make consent education mandatory in Australian schools attracted 45,000 signatures. One year later, education ministers from around the country unanimously agreed to the demand.

Her platform teachusconsent.com lobbies for and provides holistic consent and sexuality education in Australia and has inspired similar movements worldwide. Recognition of Chanel's efforts has come in the form of a BBC 100 Women nomination 2022, a Diana Award for Activism 2022, and a Young Australian of the Year 2023 nomination.

A beautiful portrait of an inspiring young changemaker 🙌 👏

 

Phil Fisk - Top 30 Talent / Observer

Phil Fisk recently photographed some amazing creative and culinary talent for Observer Food Monthly’s “Food Favourites for 2023”…

Featured here are beautiful portraits of baker Helen Evans and knife-maker Holly Loftus.

Holly has a foundry in Deptford. Her knives are things of great beauty; inspired by the principles of heirloom design and completely hand made using ancient Japanese techniques with handles made from native timbers sourced from family run sawmills.

Helen has just opened her first bakery, (a one woman operation), Eric’s in East Dulwich, having previously worked at the much-celebrated bakery Flor in Borough Market. 🌾 🥖 🙌

Phil Fisk - Allotment Eccentrics / The Alchemist

Delighted to share the 3rd and final part of Phil Fisk's beautifully crafted, atmospheric and other-worldly 'Allotment Eccentrics' series, created in collaboration with super-talented stylist Vic Twyman.

Here Phil turns his lens on potting shed alchemist Pedro (who insists his English friends pronounce it “Peyo”).

His story is told below...

Peyo has always hankered for a simple life. Originally from the Basque region of Spain but with French ancestry he has always felt like a nomad and travelled the world after university, working in bars and restaurants, gradually losing any motivation to pursue the product design he had studied for. In 2008 he was knocked off his motor bike, sustaining severe concussion and a lengthy time in hospital. A generous insurance payment bought him a period of reflection and he applied for an allotment, initially to stretch out the money and start living off the land but its appeal grew like his plants and quickly enveloped him. These new cultivation skills and constant reading inspired him to investigate the world of herbal medicine and to start making his own remedies. His back and arms still ache but his natural medicines and gentle digging are working to alleviate it. He thinks of himself as an alchemist although has no desire to create gold, just a simple ambition to use the natural properties of minerals and herbs to create change in himself and those around him.

 

Joseph Ford - Canon

Joseph spent several days on location in Avoriaz in the French Alps, shooting this beautiful commission for the launch of Canon's new EOS R6 Mark II.

Working alongside the film crew, he captured stills of action photographer Teddy Morellec putting the camera through its paces, alongside speed flyers (/adrenaline junkies!) Ugo Gerola and Ambroise Serrano and mountain biker Louise Ferguson. 🙌 ⚡️

 

Chris Floyd - Not Just Pictures at Photo North and Chip Lit Fest

Spring is here, and with it brings the Photo Festival season! Chris is returning to Photo North, this year in Leeds from 24th - 26th March where he will be exhibiting his work and discussing his book, Not Just Pictures then following onto the world renowned festival: ChipLitFest on Friday 28th April.

Full Festival Dates and details below:

Photo North: 24 - 26th March https://www.photonorthfestival.co.uk

ChipLitFest : 27th - 30th April: https://www.chiplitfest.com

From L-R: Milla Jovovich, Anthony Bourdain, David Hockney, Blondie, Yoko Ono, Bill Murray, Aisling Bea, Helen McCrory, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, Robbie Williams, Oasis, Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, David Attenborough, David Bailey, Robert de Niro and Nobu.

A signed copy from Chris’s local bookstore Jaffé & Neale.

Direct from the publisher Reel Art Press.

Chris Floyd - Idler / Lawrence (Felt / Denim / Go-Kart Mozart / Mozart Estate)

Chris Floyd was commissioned by Idler to capture this awesome series of portraits of pop legend Lawrence at his flat near Old Street in London just before Xmas 2022.

Lawrence is, "the reclusive would-be superstar behind the cult 80s indie band Felt, the 90s Britpop pioneers Denim and the noughties “b-sides only” outfit Go-Kart Mozart. Returning as Mozart Estate, Lawrence has put such topical themes as poverty, homelessness, mindless consumerism and the rise of the cashless society to a novelty pop beat on his first masterpiece, 2023’s Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities of Modern Shopping".

 

Chris Floyd - Felicity Kendal / You

We’re delighted to share these fabulous portraits from Chris Floyd’s recent shoot with her for You Magazine.

At 76 years old, Felicity is currently starring in the 40th Anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ which opens in London’s West End this month.

 

Phil Fisk - The Grove / London Short Film Festival

We are delighted to announce that Phil Fisk's documentary film "The Grove", made the Official Selection, and will be showing at the London Short Film Festival on 26th January at Curzon Soho.

Short largely during the first couple of years of the Covid pandemic, Phil's film focusses on "an abandoned pub carpark on the A205 in South London, [where] local kids are 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."

More info here and here - and you can read about the full lineup of events here.

And of course you can watch “The Grove” on our website here. It’s a beautiful, contemplative film - and well worth a watch! 🙌

 

Phil Fisk - Mike Skinner

Phil shoots Mike Skinner… the subject of a short film (/rockumentary) he’s been working on since 2019, with the first teasers being released in the new year ⚡️.

Phil describes Mike as a “professional disruptor. Dictator, denier and destructor. The king of trash, prince of darkness, the founder of the Cannibals. The loser of his mind. One of a kind. Master of his own downfall and slave to the rhythm of rock n roll. [and also] My neighbour. 👍”

The film promises to be a captivating journey into Mike’s life. We can’t wait to watch!

 

Chris Floyd - Leona Naess / If A Song

In the mid-lockdown summer of 2020 CHRIS FLOYD shot this lovely film with his good friend, singer/songwriter LEONA NAESS on a remote mountain track in Switzerland.  

Here are some very moving words from Leona about the experience... "Thank you @chrisfloyd for jumping on many trains to get to me during the summer of lockdown. All we had was a camera, the mountains and our imagination. I wish I had taken a photo of Chris laying on top of the car, holding his camera (without a steady cam) while someone drove it down a rocky fire road. The concept - we shed our layers as we grow and become, while we are busy chasing our dreams and the people we love. In the end, we learn that we have to let them go, in order to figure it out on our own. I guess the video is a metaphor for growing up. Nothing brings that harsh reality to light more then losing both your parents. I wanted this song to be empowering and anthemic. To inspire someone to get going with living. Its not sad. It’s a force!!!"

It’s now the new single from Leona’s gorgeous, melodic album ‘BROOD X’.

 

Joseph Ford - Lishui Cities of the World International Photography Exhibition

Delighted to share news of Joseph Ford’s stunning exhibition “Invisible Jumpers” which is currently on show at the Lishui Cities of the World International Photography Exhibition at the Lishui Museum of Photography in China. Exhibition runs November 17 - December 15 2022. More info here.

 

Phil Fisk - Anna Tobias / Observer

Chef Anna Tobias, beautifully captured for Observer by Phil Fisk, bathed in summer light at her restaurant Cafe Deco in Bloomsbury. She is part of the rich River Cafe alumni (including Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall), who have taken some of its ethos into their own new establishments 🌱

 

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! 🔎✨