london Nov 2017

Common Era and its photographers have enjoyed a summer full of exciting projects, including Liam Arthur photographing the Companion Collection of watches from BOSS and Ben Monk shooting a special cocktail project for one of London’s most prestigious bars.

Other recent clients include Nike (Armando Ferrari), Coca-Cola (Paloma Rincón), Nespresso (Marc Da Cunha Lopes), Columbia Sportswear (Ryan Edy), and Panasonic (Matt Stansfield).

Common Era represents:

• Liam Arthur – contemporary lifestyle & portraits, elegant fashion.
• Ryan Edy – authentic lifestyle, dynamic sports & automotive.
• Marc Da Cunha Lopes – conceptual imagery of people, fashion & still life.
• Armando Ferrari – cinematic sports, portraits, fashion & automotive
• Ben Monk – seriously delicious food & drinks.
• Paloma Rincón – clever & colourful still life.
• Matt Stansfield – youth culture, fashion & lifestyle.

The team at Horton-Stephens represents a world-class group of photographers and CGI artists that also produce moving images.

Morten Borgestad has been working on the latest PayPal moving image campaign, which is part of a 12-film series. Gary Salter photographed the hero-shot of Skeletor and He-Man for Money Supermarket. Phil Sills has a new drinks showreel, and Ilka & Franz have been shooting moving image and stills for Wembley Park.

New cinemagraphs by Chelsea Bloxsome, more beautiful work by Platform photographer Alessandra Spairani, a new surfing odyssey from James Bowden, and Wilson Hennessy has been photographing the incredible Mercedes AMG Project One.

There’s much more from the rest of the team online and visiting the ‘Latest News' section is always a good call. See the 'Platform' section for new talent; choice of two CGI companies and moving image at sister agency hortonsshortuns.com.

Esser Associates represents a small roster of award winning photographers plus a team of videographers covering corporate, BTS, 360VR and livestream events.

Whether its photography or live action, Esser Associates can provide the right creative professionals to complete any type of project. With over 20 years' experience in production, the team can also help bring a project in on budget and on time.

Recent clients include New Balance, Honda, Jaguar, Kia, Huawei, plus Liverpool, Bilbao, Porto and Celtic football clubs.

The Miss Jones Agency represents some of the most respected photographers in the UK today, both established heavyweights and rising stars.

Covering a wide spread of genres from food and drink to cars, the agency prides itself in providing the best production services possible. "Motion is now a big part of what we do, and we regularly deliver high level content alongside imagery for many of our clients as a matter of course."

With the days growing darker and the sound of Christmas drawing closer and closer, the Vue team are looking back and reflecting on a great year with their wonderful photographers.

The year isn’t quite over just yet, but 2017 has seen continued work with clients Land Rover, Singha, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, Hartley’s, TfL, John Lewis, Costa, Cow & Gate and new clients EE, Halifax, Airbnb, Philips, Optimum Nutrition and DVLA.

With a strong stable offering food and drink, lifestyle, cars, landscape, portrait, still life and sports there is never a dull moment with the Vue photographers!

Landon Production is well known among the London fashion and advertising world as one of the city's top production agencies, producing shoots not only in London but also globally for over 15 years.

Landon Production has its own in-house studio for extensive castings and shoots, and with a wide knowledge of local talent the team has a personal yet detailed approach to every production.

Crews are always selected to suit each client which enables a smoother and bespoke production. Alongside photographic production, LP offers experienced production for moving image.

Recent Clients include George Clooney for Nespresso, Gucci Kids, Loewe, Adidas, Airbus, Mr Porter, Harper's Bazaar, Jacques Vert, Adidas Parley and Violet magazine.

"We are a London-based creative production agency delivering professional content for leading brands. From concept through to output, we immerse ourselves in the production process, covering all aspects of a shoot and offering clients a second-to-none creative service that is globally recognised.

This past year we have been producing for long-term client GQ Style which includes stunning advertorials for Louis Vuitton, Armani, Paul Smith, Gucci and Coach. Shot with extremely talented teams and in some of the worlds most incredible locations.

Aside from editorial we have a reputable portfolio of clients. This season our work includes campaigns for Accessorize, River Island, Levi’s, Hackett, Topman, Jack Wills, Primark and Jigsaw.

Our dedicated team meet every project with passion and excitement, offering innovation, originality and forward thinking."

One of London's most atmospheric rental locations, Camden Park Studios is located in a de-consecrated 19th Century Church in the London borough of Camden.

Two adjacent studios provide nearly 2000 sq. ft. of shooting space, with 20 ft. high beamed trusses, bare wooden floors, exposed brick walls and an attractive mezzanine meeting/chill out area accessed by a stone spiral staircase overlooking the large studio. The smaller studio provides an intimate space for casting, still life or a supplementary prep room.

A fully equipped prep kitchen, model changing area and shower room are also accommodated. 70Mb broadband is available throughout.

Street Studios is East London's most established hire studio complex covering over 8000 sq. ft. With the brand new Studio 5, the company now has six flexible spaces available.

"We provide everything to make your shoot successful in our tailor-made spaces alongside our friendly and welcoming service. You’ll be looked after by our professional team that has over 30 years' experience.

You can choose between both daylight and blackout studios, infinity coves and shoot walls, all benefitting from high-speed internet and fully equipped with styling and dining facilities and client seating areas. We also have two kitchens available for food shoots. Easily reached by public transport in the heart of East London, we also have free parking on site.

With a great range of in-house lighting, delicious catering options and set building, we can cater to all your needs to make sure your shoot runs smoothly from start to finish."

The highlights for this Showcase include the campaign for the Jaguar Formula E team celebrating the arrival of Nelson Piquet Jr, full environment CGI Bentley Continental, an epic Uncharted 5 promo for PlayStation, a series of beautiful still life images showing bespoke Crocs designed by Christopher Kane in a woodland habitat, Toyota CH-R CGI, and finally a campaign for the Jaguar F-Pace.

The Bunker is a high-end creative retouching and CGI studio based in the heart of London’s East End. Its subterranean studio creates exceptional creative imagery for some of the world’s biggest brands, leading agencies and most talented photographers.

"Noise In Colour is an award winning creative production studio specialising in delivering campaigns for the UK and international markets. We provide a variety of services from concept through to post-production, originating artwork, delivering full print, outdoor and online campaigns for film, television, agencies and photographers.

Our visual language is based in long-term consistent instinctual human response, combining known neuroaesthetic research from art history and modern day science to evolve a new visual poetry resonating with impressive results for our clients.

We offer a unique collaborative working process partnered with high-end retouching and creative direction that is able to perform highly articulately in today’s world of visual imagery.

Craft your campaign with us. For quotations or enquiries please email."

Lorentz Gullachsen has enjoyed a very busy year. Advertising clients included Marsh & Parsons for their multi-award winning brand campaign: Portraits as metaphors for types of property. The poster campaign has been seen across the London Underground and two images from the campaign gained success at the AoP awards, including the prestigious Advertising Photography 'Best in Category' single image.

Real people photography has included farmers in Ireland and Norfolk for pharmaceutical client Merial. Reportage style portraits for Asthma UK and formal portraits of many celebrities including Andrew Marr, Sir Roy Strong, Terry Waite, the Rev Richard Coles, and celebrity chefs Tom Kerridge, Yotam Ottolenghi and Nadia Hussian.

“I love to photograph chefs - they are hard workers and I respect the graft that they have to do at whatever level they are at. Cooking is like portrait photography, lots of preparation and then a very quick final dash to produce a work of art.”

"I am a video and photographic drinks specialist. In the age of social media marketing and digital media, I have to be flexible and use varied shooting techniques to convert the art director’s ideas into something real and meaningful.

Recently there has been a huge shift in how clients use images and so in turn I can proudly say that I provide video or stills, be it in the studio or on location. Engaging digital content for moving pictures is a very exciting area whether creating a short film, shooting looping video clips or animating stills for stop frame applications. Content that is packed full of quality brand messages helps my clients communicate the lifestyle choices they wish to convey with a speedy delivery, and sometimes with a little wit.

Please view my Showreel and go to my website for more great moving pictures and photography."

Leo Acker's bold and imaginative work makes him one of London's most sought-after still life photographers.

Over the last 15 years, Leo has developed a unique creative photographic style combined with precise digital skills. From his studio in Shoreditch and on location, Leo shoots for a very wide range of clients.

Recent commissions include work for Liberty, Marks & Spencer, Russell & Bromley, John Lewis, Fenwick, The Financial Times, The Sunday Telegraph and Glamour Magazine.

Dominic Davies is a photographer who works primarily but not exclusively in the controlled environment of the studio. Experimental and collaborative in approach, he brings a precise and crafted vision to all his projects, driven by the fascination with exploring and realising ideas photographically.

His work has been commissioned by clients across the fields of design, music, publishing, museums and advertising.

Clients include Absolut, AnOther Magazine, Aspesi, Bloomsbury, 4AD, Grey Goose, Haagen Dazs, Guinness, Nike, Lee Cooper, Smirnoff, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Fat Duck, The Gourmand and XL Records.

Holly Pickering is an East London-based food, drink and lifestyle photographer, working for a range of clients from editorial to advertising. Her work is all about colour and texture and capturing natural, authentic moments. Holly is equally comfortable shooting in the studio or on location.

Recent shoots include a global food and drink lifestyle campaign for Shell, food photography for healthy start up brands Pack’d Smoothies and Ayem, and editorial work for New York-based food magazine Culture.

Holly is represented worldwide by agents Hancock & Handsome.

2017 has seen more exciting projects with terrific teams of people in great locations.

Featured in this Showcase is a selection shot over the past few months, including stills and video in the studio for the Jaguar Racing I-Type 2 for 2018, new Rolls-Royce Ghost launch images, and Mitsubishi press campaign images on location for the Shogun and L200 4x4.

Keep an eye out for other new work launching soon, including the Ford Mustang, S-Max, Kuga and Edge pan-European press ads and exciting new Land Rover and Jaguar project imagery, amongst others.

Get an insight behind the scenes on the regular blog and follow Harniman on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Justin Leighton is a UK-based photographer with a background in photojournalism and a passion for all things automotive. He shoots and films beautiful cars for a wealth of prestigious clients in breath-taking locations across the world.

It’s been a busy few months with Porsche and Mercedes. For Porsche there was the exciting debut of the new Cayenne plus a short film due out in November 2017. For Mercedes the shoots came in many flavours - the colourful G63 in Wales and the sleek black special edition G Wagen in the studio and on location in Scotland.

Next - the first public outing for AMG’s Project One in a secret location en route to Frankfurt and then the mighty E63 S Estate. The summer fun continued with the E400 Cabriolet and an exciting few days with the new E-Class All-Terrain.

Other recent clients included Rolls Royce and editorial and covers for Octane, Evo and Car.

Follow Justin's adventures on Instagram, twitter, and Facebook.

2017 continues to be a good year for Graham Tooby with recent shoots for IKEA, Nespresso, Chambord and HSBC.

Graham's focus is on a graphic, clean photography style with an attention to detail. He is looking forward to the rest of the year and seeing what comes next.

Graham is available through his agent Mutton-Bones.

2017 has been another busy year for Barry Willis. His diverse and ever-widening client base has included Abbeyfield Care Homes, Clic Sargent, British Land, Datashred, Morgan Sindall, Royal London, Southern Dental and the Wellcome Trust, to name just a few.

For this London Spotlight, Barry has chosen to feature a selection of work that formed part of a recent three-day shoot. The brief was to produce a set of portraits that reflected the individuality of the company’s employees and to reflect the personality of the organisation. The idea was to create a snapshot of the working day with a strong editorial, rather than a corporate, feel.

"This was quite the production, with up to three different sets ready to go at any one time”, said Barry. “In between setting up and shooting the teams' individual portraits, we had to be ready to drop everything to shoot the board members, in two different styles, as they became available throughout the day”. Once again, Barry’s meticulous planning, calm flexible manner and the focused input from his experienced crew proved pivotal to another satisfied client.

For his next project, which is currently in the production phase, Barry will be directing a Legacy DRTV ad for Abbeyfield Care Homes.

Gerrit Buntrock has over 20 years of experience as a food and still life photographer. He always takes a relaxed and collaborative approach with clients and art directors and loves the diversity of shooting at his two comfortable kitchen studios in West London or on location anywhere.

Recent projects include amongst others Christmas and Indian ranges for Waitrose, a redesigned frozen foods range for Albert Bartlett, and interesting cake projects for an Egyptian design agency.

A full client list can be found on his website.

Andrew Molyneux has over 30 years' experience shooting stills and, more recently, moving images for an extensive list of corporate clients worldwide, working on annual reports, corporate social responsibility reports, corporate brochures, websites and shooting image libraries for companies.

Moving image is an increasing part of Andrew's portfolio for his clients. His friendly, easy-going approach helps to get the best out any situation - which may be why he works for his clients again and again.

Some recent clients include Arriva, GE Aviation, TriTrax, Cargill, Coats, Kier Group, Showlite, Welsh Government, Kilkklok, Brightstar, Impact Health Partners, Ince Ltd and Northern Power Grid.

For more information contact the studio on +44(0)1594 845561 or Andrew on +44(0)7836 661460.

As a still life and fashion photographer, David Wilman is best known for his technical expertise and effortless control of light and shadow. He is comfortable working either in his North London studio or on location, depending on the task at hand.

Bringing a love for architecture, shape and colour into his work, David combines a creative eye with an impeccable attention to detail which reflects in both his editorial and commercial projects. He continues to experiment with new ideas and approaches to photography and lighting which he incorporates into both his commissioned and personal work.

Marking 10 years in the industry, 2017 has been a strong commercial year for David with a number of campaigns for brands including John Lewis, Superdrug and L'Oréal.

Other clients include Tesco, CAT Footwear, La Perla, The Perfume Shop, Marionnaud and Palladium Boots.

See more of David's personal and commercial work on his website. For something a little more laid back have a look at his Instagram.

2017 has been a fun year for Paul Barshon and his crew with a variety of stills and film that covered everything automotive.

Shooting the entire Triumph Motorcycle range and creating brand and genre films that crossed the USA from New York to Colorado, and running away from Hurricane Ira whilst shooting in Miami. Other projects include the new VW Tiguan, the Ford Mustang, Genesis G90, drone operating for Jaguar Land Rover, and then to Spain for Renault.

Carlos Lumiere was greatly influenced at a young age by his father's work as a photographer. In 1989, Carlos moved from Spain to Miami to work as a photographer for a Spanish press agency, and it was here that he decided to devote his career and life to high-fashion photography. This passion took him to cities around the world, allowing Carlos to develop a stunning and diverse portfolio.

His photos are best known for blending classic lines with luscious colours and textures. His style is rich, emotive and dynamic - it's this that attracts high-profile fashion designers, advertising campaigns and magazines to work with him, including L’Oréal, Balenciaga, Harper's Bazaar, Harrods, Hackett, Vivienne Westwood, Valore, Royal Ascot, Elle, FHM and GQ.

Carlos now divides his time between his studio Lumiere London, working for his own magazine Fashiopolis, and searching for his next great shoot.

Although often shooting overseas, much of photographer and director Mel Yates’s work takes place in or near his home city of London - his knowledge of which rivals that of a London cabbie!

Featured in this Showcase is a selection of ‘local’ shoots. Other recent clients have included Harrods, House & Garden, Mr & Mrs Smith, The New York Times, One & Only Resorts, Patek Philippe and many more.

Mel is represented in London by One Represents.

“I am Digital” - Stills and moving image portraits. European advertising campaign for PwC. Client: LukeCharles.

"I have always loved the precision of the work that design studio LukeCharles produce. And we have discussed collaborating in the past. Therefore, when Luke Gifford and Charles Taylor called me in early January to discuss shooting portraits, both still and moving, for an extensive European campaign for PwC, I was very excited to be finally working with the guys."

You can see the whole campaign on the portraits section on Philip's website.

Over the past 12 years, Tom Cunningham has carved a niche for shooting commercial vehicles both European and worldwide, studio and on location.

Recent commissions include studio and location shoots for Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and MAN Truck & Bus. Tom was chosen to shoot Volvo Trucks UK’s 50th Anniversary campaign for the launch event, followed by web and print advertising campaigns. Tom is currently working on a series of shoots with some of the world’s top truck designers.

Tom is currently seeking European and worldwide representation.

Based in the North of England, Steve Morgan is a corporate and industrial photographer and has been shooting images for clients around the UK and internationally for over 25 years.

Specialising in workplace and location portrait photography, Steve utilises his vast reportage experience to produce bright, fresh and vibrant images of people at work as well as graphic and striking landscapes in industrial locations.

Steve can find strong images even in sometimes the most unpromising situations. His easy-going nature but tenacious attitude to ‘finding the picture‘ mean his clients return again and again.

Clients include Tata Steel, UK Mail, British Steel, Liberty Group, Suez, Financial Times, Sunday Times Magazine, Atkins Global and BP.

"It’s been a busy few months with a Liquid and Accessories theme. Highlights include flying out to Moscow to shoot for Chivas Regal, a billboard campaign for Whitley Neill Gin, content for New Yorker Beer, and for the third year running, six unique front covers for Men's Heath. I also found time to squeeze in a personal paint floral project."

Barry Makariou is a problem solver and specialises in bringing together multiple assets to create truly unique images. He is regularly featured in Famous BTS Magazine and One Eyeland.

Follow him on Instagram for some amazing BTS.

London and New York-based Jenny Hands re-imagined Clairol's 'Nice 'n' Easy' flagship brand, shooting over seven weeks and sixty models. She was hunkered down in Lower Manhattan to harvest 4TB's of imagery for the Procter & Gamble mainstay, heralding a global re-invention of their demo-graph.

Engaged as a fully phased project partner, collaborating within concept and casting to create a fully encapsulated experience, Jenny's unwavering dedication to hair, beauty and womankind garnered over the past decade and a half culminates in an understanding of the minutia and the technical that are hard to surpass.

Alongside her work with Clairol brands, Jenny has spent the past eight years regularly contributing to Aveda’s advertising collections, shooting in NYC studios, Minnesota prairies, a Caribbean hideaway and more than one Indian palace. Further works within hair include shooting with Sassoon's US label VS and being behind at least a dozen British 'Hairdressers of the Year' titles, including a North American win. In addition her talent has been sought out within the industry by Davines, Wella and Kolston.