Over the years, Buenos Aires-born Ale Burset has photographed for clients including Reebok, VW, Chevrolet, Phillip Morris, Converse, Adidas, Ford, Chandon, Energizer and Quaker, among others. His most recent jobs have been for Nike, Greenpeace, Clorox, Hospital Aleman, Osteoporosis and Vectra.

Working internationally, the photographer spreads his time between Argentina, North America, Mexico and Europe.

In Spain, he is represented by AProductions and in the USA by Denise Stewart.

South American Models is an agency that manages its models in a unique way in order to meet the needs of the market.

The company has four divisions:

• SAM - Models who work internationally both on the catwalk and as the image for major brands.
• SEXIER - Commercial models who work with global brands and products.
• BRAZILIAN - Models selected exclusively 'on stage', before they move on the world's top catwalks.
• MAN - Male models, each with their own distinct style to cover client requirements.

Welcome to the third edition of Showcase Buenos Aires with the latest news and projects from production-related companies hard at work in this fascinating, ever-buzzing South American city.

From 4 to 23 September, the city will be holding the sixth edition of Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires - an international festival covering all kinds of audiovisual culture, theatre, dance, music and visual arts.

And just a reminder that you can find an extensive directory of visual media companies at www.productionparadise.com.

Our cover photos were taken by Andy Cherniavsky.

Antonella Arismendi's creativity and cutting edge style is known to produce striking images with a sleek sense of aesthetics, composition and colour.

She recently had work commissioned by several well-known clients and magazines associated with the fashion and advertising industry, including Rolling Stone, FTV, Brando, Daimler Chrysler and DMode Magazine.

Filmic is a Buenos Aires-based production company that works throughout Argentina. Specialising in filming for advertising campaigns, they also provide production services.

Filmic has worked for brands such as Ford, Coca Cola, and Lever amongst others. Recent projects include Logan for Renault, Padres for Sprite, and Cremas for Veet.

Cinetauro was founded in 1979 and has since become one of the major advertising production houses, with over 1700 spots produced for local and international clients.

Among an extensive client list are J.Walter Thompson (Unilever) Vega Olmos Ponce APL (Coca-Cola) Grey Worldwide (Ford Motors) Ogilvy & Group (Quaker Oats), Bozzel Vazquez (Danone) Lautrec - Euro Bates (Visa) and Aura (PepsiCo).

Producer Gustavo Bonifetto says, "We take on every project as if it were our own, and our customers feel like we are part of their team."

Paraiso Cine is a recently-created production company specialising in making commercials that combine filming with visual effects and computer animation.

It was set up by Néstor Mazzini, who studied as a director at the Institute of Cinematographic Arts in Avellaneda, and who has been producing and directing short films and commercials for more than 10 years.

Clients include Torneos y Competencias, Cinzano, Coca-Cola and Personal, among others.

In recent years, the company has co-directed projects with ALT Broadcast Design - one of Argentina's leading animation and postproduction studios.

Cinetauro was founded in 1979 and has since become one of the major advertising production houses, with over 1700 spots produced for local and foreign clients.

The company has won several awards in national and international festivals including Clio, Cannes, The New York Festival, Golden Award of Montreaux. F.I.A.P, London International Awards, Lapiz de Platino, Circulo de Creativos, Martín Fierro and Top Ten.

Among an extensive client list are J.Walter Thompson (Unilever) Vega Olmos Ponce APL (Coca-Cola) Grey Worlwide (Ford Motors) Ogilvy & Group (Quaker Oats), Bozzel Vazquez (Danone) Lautrec - Euro Bates (Visa) and Aura (Pepsico).

The company also has a documentary department, associate photographers and a wide experience in international production services. It stands out for its production structures, on-line and off-line editing and equipment which enable it to undertake any type of production independently.

Producer Gustavo Bonifetto says, 'We take on every project as if it were our own, and our customers feel like we are part of their team.'

If we used bicycles more, we would reduce the amount of toxic gases we produce, which would help to reduce global warming. Using bicycles more would make our cities more pleasant and make our lives better....

With this premise, photographer Victor Wolf presents us 'Bicicletas' (Bicycles) - a limited edition book. The striking, atmospheric black and white photos we show here are taken from it.

Virginia Del Giudice is an interiors photographer with particular expertise in natural light. She continues working with film, and writes her own texts.

Her stories are published in some of the best magazines in the world, The World of Interiors, Vogue, Elle Deco, AD among others.

On a grey, wet day, Virginia took a series of photographs in the Prado, a district of Montevideo. The house featured here is today pretty well abandoned but was an embassy during the Second World War and later the residence of a Uruguayan president. These photos were published in the Dutch Residence magazine.