Barclays
27th February 2012
Ph: Luke Kirwan
Ag: BBH
Luke continues to shoot with Barclays and BBH, creating larger sets and interesting installations for them.
Working with Andy Knights this fully operational windscreen wiper build had the team in the studio making a mess...cleaning it up...and making a mess again. A fun day had by all!
Woody Harrelson
22nd February 2012
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Ed: Guardian Magazine
Lukes first commission with the Guardian was to shoot Hollywood actor Woody Harrleson. Known for his extreme roles in film, the 4 page feature was to promote his newest release Rampart.
Lukes simple style, and use of colour, captured him perfectly. Luke also got the chance to shoot a couple of 'Big Shot' polaroids of Woody to add his ever expanding Polaroid series. Click on link below.
Luke/Polaroids
Mastermind
22nd February 2012
Ill: Claudia Boldt
Ex: Mastermind
Mastermind is a group exhibition organised and curated by our illustrator Claudia Boldt. Claudia and a friend have set up BOLT editions which were responsible for printing up the group show for the 22 artists.
Artists include Rose Blake, David Hughes, Oona Brown, Brett Ryder, Rachel Gannon and many more!
The launch party is on Saturday March 3rd, 1 - 4pm and the show will run until the 18th of March. All prints cost a mere £20!
See link below.
www.bolteditions.co.uk
Crash Magazine
9th February 2012
Ph: Jermaine Francis
Ed: Crash Magazine
Susie Bick was Jermaines chosen model for his latest shoot with Paris mag Crash. Susies timeless beauty and style were perfect for the story.
Jermaine continues to bring personality into his fashion and beauty work, without the over saturation of post production, which dominates alot of photography today.
Iain McKell & POV Tokyo
9th February 2012
Ill: Damien Poulain
Pub: Oodee / Prestel Publishing
This year sees the launch of Damiens latest venture, his own publishing house Oodee. The first in the POV Female series was the successful, and sold out, London boxed set - and later this month Damien releases his Tokyo edition.
POV Female Tokyo - Five monographs, on Tokyo female photographers include Emi Fukuyama, Mayumi Hosokura, Mari Kojima, Kasane Nogawa and Mirai Hara. Book launch & private view on the 23rd of March at the Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo. Exhibition from 23rd March till 7th April 2012.
Damien also continues to collaborate and design books for numerous photographers - including Iain McKell whose book Beautiful Britain, designed by Damien, is on sale now.
Head & Shoulders
6th February 2012
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ag: Saatchi
Shooting 3 of Europes biggest sports men today, Hamish & team flew to Barcelona to shoot the latest European Head & Shoulders campaign.
Seen here GB's current cycling world champion Mark Cavendish, Hamish also shot France's handball star Nikola Karabatic, and Spain's leading basketball player Juan Carlos Navarro.
50 Years of the Sunday Times Magazine
3rd February 2012
Ph: Hamish Brown
Co: Saatchi Gallery
Last night saw the opening of The Sunday Times Magazines exhibition in celebration of their 50 year anniversary. The show, at Londons Saatchi gallery, is an exhibition of work from the worlds top photographers, with an edit of key images that have made the magazine one of the most respected magazines in the world photographically.
Hamishs Robbie Williams image was one of the chosen pieces - shot at LA's Capitol Recording Studios, while Robbie was in the throws of his swing/Sinatra phase.
Giuseppe
31st January 2012
Ph: Luke Stephenson
The latest personal project from Luke is on his local barber, the much loved Giuseppe ... Luke loved the simplicity of his little salon and the fact hes been working there for over 30 years, snipping away.
His light and candid detail shots, picking out the colours in this monotone white room, bring to life this man and his business in the simplest of ways.
SKY
16th January 2012
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Venture 3
Phase two of Satoshis SKY imagery started to run this month.
Shooting British and Irish athletes from the worlds of swimming, cycling, boxing and athletics he got to work with many different disciplines - utilising a strong colour lighting concept for all.
The 2011 World Champion, GB swimmer, Liam Tancock is seen here.
Hackett
13th January 2012
Ph: Matt Brooke
Ag: Hackett, London
Adding to his kids photography Matt has been building up a great menswear book over the last year, which we are happy to reveal today.
Shooting both studio and location, Matt has now put his years of experience in the fashion industry and his great understanding of menswear into his photography. He has a thousand & one editorial ideas and at the same time appreciates a clients needs when tasked with a commercial brief.
Hackett commissioned Matt firstly for their childrens wear, but then got him on board to shoot their mens 2012 collection, seen here.
American Vogue
9th January 2012
Ph: Colin Lane
Ed: American Vogue
American Vogue asked five of the fashion industry’s top makeup artists to dream up fresh takes on holiday beauty. Linda Cantello, Tom Pecheux, Lloyd Simmons, Charlotte Tilbury and Alice Lane were the chosen few. Colin shot the beauty for Alices looks for her Marrakech inspired look.
“My New Year’s woman is confident, sexy, and full of hope,” Alice Lane says of her Marrakech muse, model Meaghan Waller.
Click on link below to see more.
www.vogue.com
Tinie Tempah
9th January 2012
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ag: Disturbing London, EMI / Element Mgt
Disturbing London, the home of Tinie Tempah, has enjoyed an incredible few years, having conquered both the single and album charts. Now the label is 'branching out' to the fashion industry with their clothing range.
Hamish, shot the press campaign with Tinie, and other DL acts modelling the new DL collection.
Click on link below for more info...
www.disturbinglondon.com
This is England '88
14th December 2011
Ph: Dean Rogers
Ag: 4 Creative
The latest of the Shane Meadows films runs this week on Channel 4, following the antics of the This is England characters 2 years on. With viewing figures of over 2.5 million for last nights episode, its seems the following for This is England just keeps on growing.
Dean continues to shoot all Shanes stills and poster campaigns - this time spoofing the nativity scene.
Crash
3rd December 2011
Ph: Jermaine Francis
Pub: Crash Magazine
Jermaine continues to build his relationship with Paris based Crash magazine, this month shooting actress, model and pianist Amber Andersen.
The new muse at Madly by Kenzo, and the face of Burberrys AW campaign, Jermaine captures Amber beautifully mixing both fashion and portraiture.
Gary Barlow
2nd December 2011
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ag: Dawbell PR
Hamish has been personally commissioned by Gary Barlow for all his photographic imagery over the last few months.
Alongside the madness that is X Factor, Gary has also organised a large charity event at London's Royal Albert Hall later this month, for which Hamish has shot the poster and brochure images.
Barclays
2nd December 2011
Ph: Luke Kirwan
Ag: BBH
The latest of Barclays ads runs this month to promote the QR Code for their Offset Mortgages.
Shot on location the large QR code it self was built as an art installation by set builders Andy Knight....if you scan it it does work!
UNIQLO
17th November 2011
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Dentsu
Satoshi shot various actors and actresses for UNIQLO's latest global campaign' for the launch of their A/W range ... the campaign is literally everywhere!
Super clean imagery, with graphic shapes, movement and attitude reveal yet another string to Satoshis bow.
Bt Infinity
14th November 2011
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: AMV
Satoshi continues utilising different lighting techniques and movement with his latest campaign for BT which runs from this week.
Shooting Olympic hopefuls Oscar Pistorius, the 'blade runner' and World Champion triathletes the Brownlee brothers, Satoshi shot the athletes together with the lighting streaks to bring these action images to life.
Top Boy
4th November 2011
Ph: Dean Rogers
Co: Channel 4
Channel 4's much acclaimed drama Top Boy runs this week on our screens.
Dean was on set to capture the stills for this somewhat heartbreaking and gritty drama about Londons East End gang and drug culture. As always Deans images draw you into the story, single moments capturing the emotion of the films narrative.
Take a look at the link below to see more about the programme :
www.channel4.com/topboy
Mind That Child
3rd November 2011
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Lukes latest project, Mind that Child, was shot at Londons soon-to-be Ice cream van graveyard...as the majority of the vans we all know and love dont reach the EU eco standards and are set to all be scrapped in the near future.
He wanted to capture the vans, and their drivers, who were all a bit shy, before their new shiny, personality void replacments tinkle their tunes around our streets.
See the series on Lukes pages on the Blunt site, and click on click below to see the film he shot alongside the project... its very much worth a click, and pop the volume up !
Mind That Child film
