san francisco Jun 2019

Founded in 2012, County Fair Productions is a full service, environmentally conscious production company specialising in photo and video shoot production, both domestically and abroad.

"With offices and teams on both coasts and a wide network of resources across continents and disciplines, we’re positioned to help our clients create their best work, and have fun doing it. We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last few years, producing shoots in our home bases of San Francisco and NYC, as well as Arizona, Nevada, New York, Georgia, Florida, Japan, Italy, Scotland, Barbados, Nepal, Anguilla, and Australia.

We’re pleased to announce our new office in the SF Bay Area and we look forward to continuing to serve our clients on the West Coast and beyond!"

Jim Erickson has a passion for what’s in front of the camera, and it’s contagious.

Since he started, Jim has been connecting people and ideas with business. His work has appeared all over the world and represented many prestigious clients, so you can expect a big league look with an honest eye from a seasoned pro.

In Jim’s work, the main act is about feeling - everything else is a distant second. Jim shoots story sequences for everything he does, putting his work in a unique category for art directors looking to tell a story with ad-worthy images and video available for stock sales. "And…we’ve got plenty of B-roll!"

Poppy Creative is a unique collective of San Francisco's top tier visual storytellers. The well-established creative agency has long-standing relationships in the photography industry, and its diverse array of photographers are talented in advertising, commercial and catalogue work. The roster also includes prop stylists, soft good stylists, and producers.

Poppy turned 10 years old in April this year and has been busy forging new relationships as well as continuing to curate their roster with amazing talent. In January, they launched kid’s photographer Joy Coakley, starting an area on the site for 'Artists to Watch' and curated from their many relationships with amazing photographers, stylists and videographers throughout the US and continue to forge new relationships through their Poppy Pod, where they work as a team for smaller clients providing, production, photography and styling all in a package.

New projects include Airbnb, Design Within Reach, Gundlach Bundschu Winery, Pottery Barn Modern Baby and Gobble.com

Raygun Studio was founded by graphic designer and CGI artist Michael Tompert, creating one-of-a-kind iconic images and motion for brand identities and campaign heroes, which has earned it a place in Luerzer’s '200 Best Digital Artists in the World'.

Raygun’s projects reflect Michael’s designer sensibilities - delivering a memorable and strong first read to stand out on a mobile phone, yet with depth and layers of complexity revealed when closing in on a 20-foot tradeshow display.

Raygun Studio has over 10 years of experience working with design and advertising agencies for global brands including Apple, Disney, Ford, Gap, Gillette, HP and, just within the last year, Nike, Microsoft, Pepsi and Samsung.

After years of successful working relationships with a range of companies, from boutique to ones with global presence, Leigh Beisch has mastered the art of developing content that communicates the story behind the brand with which customers can connect.

Leigh’s personal passion and focus on foods and ingredients that promote well being, both mentally and physically, have given her added insight into creating content that consumers who care about these things can relate to.

Her expertise in highlighting the quality and appetite appeal aspect of food products has elevated major food brands on national promotions and worldwide menu board shoots.

"I take each shot as a personal expression. This natural approach, combined with my natural lighting delivers images that have reached out to audiences and evoke comments such as 'I just want to eat the photograph!'” (McDonald’s test customer).

Alfred Yan is a photographer based in San Francisco. He specialises in interiors and still life photography. After studying biology in college, he took an evening photography class: one thing led to another, and he found himself loading film holders and peeling Polaroids.  

In 2000, Alfred moved to New York City to further his training. There, he was introduced to the world of interior photography and the beauty of natural light. Upon returning to San Francisco in 2009, he took that experience to the studio of Restoration Hardware as staff photographer.  

Alfred’s clients include Anthropologie, FLOR, Mint, The New York Times and Restoration Hardware.

Eric Zepeda draws upon his years-long obsession with photography to create rich, nuanced images. He is often sought out for his food and product photography skills, bringing light and depth to perfectly capture each image. He works in New York and California, and anywhere in-between.

Eric's clients include Mark and Graham, Shutterfly, Walmart and Goggle.com.

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"Creative collaboration drives every project. Matching creative teams with great locations, we start with the largest location library in Northern California, and partner with production throughout research, planning, scouting, permitting, and shooting. From the bid through the wrap, we are ready with private and public properties anywhere you’d like to go.

We help create shoots for cars, healthcare, technology, fashion, lifestyle, experiential advertising, installations, product drops, interviews, and media events. Meet our network, come see our world, and let’s make something cool together. Then let’s do it again!"

Eos Aerial provides aerial cinematography and consulting to the commercial, print, and digital industries throughout California and the Western United States.

Brought to you by Jof Hanwright  - with well over 1000 commercials and print shoots to his credits, Jof offers a wealth of knowledge, insight, and a photographic repertoire that is unmatched in the field. Having worked with directors such as Lance Acord, Dante Ariola, Forest Whitaker, and Kathryn Bigelow - and companies such as RSA, Park Pictures, Reset, and Anonymous Content - he has been pushed to the highest levels of visual excellence.

Jof will offer visual solutions to the various challenges a project might present, and will always work with creative teams to deliver the most compelling and dynamic images possible. He is FAA licensed and fully insured.

Recent clients include BMW, Tesla, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen, Nike and AT&T.

From the bidding stage and throughout production, there is simply no other company that can offer the comprehensive set of resources, skills and knowledge to match what EOS Aerial brings to the project.

Located in the heart of San Francisco’s culture-rich Mission District, this “pin-drop quiet” studio features a five-star camera-ready chef’s kitchen, white cyclorama, full-body green-screen, black limbo, and many location style shooting options. Highly organised management and numerous efficiencies round out the company’s turn-key approach to studio services.

Just minutes from downtown San Francisco, The Producer’s Loft Studio handles all the back-end support for video productions, still photography shoots and off-site meetings. The company systematises and incorporates many of the repeatable parts of production into a workflow that provides clients with numerous efficiencies; saving time and money.

Having invested in sound-isolation, The Producer's Loft is confidently one of the quietest shooting spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ideally suited for out-of-town productions, the studio has all necessary lighting and grip equipment on-site as well as in-house gaffer, in-house stagehand, and freelance teleprompter, make-up and location sound mixer personnel. Craft services are available upon request.

For meeting events, The Producer’s Loft Studio provides tables, chairs, HD video projector and screen, audio sound system, microphones, tech support, and a business-class internet and mesh WiFi system.

Tori B. Amos is a creative professional with an eye for detail. She works quickly and effectively as an art director, wardrobe and prop stylist and loves fashion and music. Her vision is that clothing is poetry in motion, with a story to tell.

Tori strives to bring a fresh artistic approach to camera. From the buttons, texture, and accessories, she looks for that extra something that has its own unique rhythm.

Her recent projects include commercial productions for (PG&E) Pacific Gas and Electric’s California state-wide campaign, that aired in three different languages during prime time TV. She also completed a national web campaign for Homelight Real Estate.

Tori also styled inter-office short films for PayPal and NetFlix. She creates looks and set designs for high-end clients and corporations combining colours, style, and complementary accessories that stand out according to the clients’ needs and expectations.

NYCFotoWorks is just around the corner. Only a few days to apply to the exclusively professional portfolio review and have your work seen by creatives from GQ, Digitas, HBO, McCann, FCB Health, W Magazine, Bloomingdale’s, Equinox, Havas Worldwide and many more.

Find out more about the reviewers who will be joining us this spring by clicking here.

NYCFotoWorks is your chance to have back-to-back one-on-one 15 minutes meetings with art buyers, art producers, creative directors, photo editors and agents. You choose your reviewers, NYCFotoWorks sends you a schedule, then just turn up and knock ‘em dead with your work.

Join it from 18th–20th of June at Go Studios, Manhattan.

Deadline to book your place is June 13th so don’t wait and apply today.