CARS, TRANSPORTATION AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY & MOTION Jun 2021

"Perks of the job  - being asked to photograph stylish cars in stylish locations... although perhaps Corby might be pushing it a bit.

A busy start to 2021 with some great projects for some great brands such as Ferrari, McLaren, Honda and a 10-metre-long electric bus and van for Arrival - not only lots of stills but also collaborating with a great team to create short films for Jaguar, Lotus and McLaren which was super fun, and the results speak for themselves."

Alex is on Instagram. Represented by Morgan Lockyer.

"We are off to a great start this year, and I’m excited to show you what I’ve been up to!"  - Anthony.

Anton hit the ground running with multiple projects for 2021, all of them involving hybrid stills and video production. Now out of embargo, we can present some of the work. One of these projects was the code red shoot with the electric Lexus LF-Z for Team One where Anton directed both film and stills. The film incorporates heavy VFX combined with practical shooting, with a CGI component for the stills.

Additionally, Anton directed four films for the Infiniti QX55 shot in and around Downtown Los Angeles, again combining stills. 

In between, Anton shot a personal project with a Bugatti Chiron and completed a CGI project with Curve Digital for the Audi RSQ8.

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Anton is represented in London by Catherine Collins. Follow Catherine on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Award-winning Carioca Studio is a well-known image concept house highly acclaimed for their work, specialising in advertising imagery. Carioca offers integrated visual services, from production to photography, illustration and CGI. The company now has 23 people working in three different departments – production, 3D and post-production.

Clients include Dalwhinnie, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Europcar, Mercedes-Benz, Sony Ericsson, VW and WWF.

See more here and follow on Instagram.

Carioca is represented by JSR. You can follow them on Instagram.

David spent the month of April back at the track working as an official photographer for the IndyCar Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg near his home in Tampa, FL. One of David’s greatest passions is photographing race cars and capturing timeless moments in motorsport. During the weekend, David produced both motorsports and press photography used by numerous IndyCar media outlets. 

David also completed an automotive lifestyle personal project showcasing the first-generation Audi R8 with talent dressed in business attire. The project was conducted to show David’s post-processing abilities with the final series being edited in three different post-production styles. You can see more of this series and more on his website.

With remote client direction as a new priority since 2020, Easton Chang has been able to resume stills and motion production nationwide and abroad. With shoots recently for Lamborghini, Ducati, Gumtree and Mercedes-Benz, adapting to the ever changing environment and restrictions.

Easton continues to utilise the top tier producers in Australia, one of the safest and most secure regions to produce content in the world during Covid.

Günther Raupp is well known for his automotive and lifestyle photography as well as his unique style and use of light. He is one of the very few elite car photographers working all over Europe and the United States. His impressive list of references ranges from Alfa Romeo to Volkswagen. His experience spans to location shootings in California, Utah, Florida, the Arctic Circle, the Sinai Peninsula, South Africa, China, Spain, Nice, Venice or even at Lake Garda. He has worked in studios in Hollywood, Detroit, Chicago, London, Munich, Turin and Madrid. 

Günther among others enjoys an international reputation for calendars. It is common knowledge that only the Pirelli and Ferrari calendars have achieved an ultimate cult status within their target group: but only Günther has exclusively photographed every Ferrari calendar over all the years. With his COVID-19 safe certified production team, he’s actually very busy shooting the 2022 Ferrari calendar.

Günther’s most important accessory still is – his eye! He simply loves being a photographer, every day, and on every project. His passion is driven by photos that excite and convey a pure, unique message.

Make sure you visit his brand new relaunched website and follow him on facebook.

"An exciting start to 2021 shooting Vauxhall in London with the McCann team at the beginning of the year. ‘Switch to Electric’ TVC, end frame hero and BTS are shared here, along with our new 2021 motion mash-up. 

Cool to be interviewed/ interrogated by Brett Fraser a few weeks back - chatting all things automotive photography for an eight page article on my work in the May 2021 issue of EVO magazine.

It’s always a blast to collaborate with interesting people, so really looking forward to working with our new agents on future projects – Peter and Andy from Agent-At-Large in London, Virginia and Isabella with Myndset in Milan, Elizabeth and Kelly at Elizabeth Poje in LA. 

Take a look at what we’ve been up to and join the conversation with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

Get an insight behind the scenes on the regular blog."

James Holm has been working as a professional photographer since the mid '90s. His photography area has always been influenced by his interests in life. It started with skateboarding and then moved on to snowboarding and the search for the endless winter. After hundreds of travel days in winter landscapes, his interest in cars started to grow bigger and bigger which brought him to where he is today.

To describe his photography he often uses the words 'action related lifestyle photography'. All the years working as a professional photographer has given him high creativity and a fast workflow with high quality.

James is based in Stockholm, Sweden, where he has his office, but most of the time he's travelling abroad using the natural environment as his workspace.

James Parker has just released his newest automotive work. This series sees James get out of London and head for his home county of Yorkshire with Land Rover. Shooting the Impressive Land Rover Defender amongst the varying landscapes and conditions of the North, taking in a spot of hiking and climbing along the way.

At home on location or in the studio, James and his team shoot for a variety of brands, creative agencies and editorial magazines. Recent clients include; GEELY Autos, LEVC, Jaguar Eagle, Google and Sony.

More of James’ work can be found on his website and on Instagram.

Jeff has been keeping busy with a wide range of projects, taking him to a few new places along the way.  First up is another project for Lincoln, this time shooting their Nautilus in Northern Michigan. With just one shoot day and a long shot list, the team dodged rain clouds to capture the vehicle both in motion and at rest with a beautiful home on the lake.

Recom Farmhouse brought Jeff on board for two projects. Canoo is a start-up EV manufacturer in California, working to bring its skateboard-architecture vehicles to the public soon.  To demonstrate their pickup truck version, Jeff and his team sought out rugged scenery in the Eastern Sierras, and were blessed with fresh snowfall during the shoot, which made for some very dramatic scenes.

For the second project with RFH, Jeff took to the air for another electric start-up, Archer. Again, plenty of brainstorming, researching, and scouting pointed the way to the best possible locations, this time the California desert. Jeff shot both from the ground and the air to create the scene of this future EVTOL aircraft making distant locations easily accessible.

Based in Los Angeles, Jeff has been shooting with automakers around the world for over 15 years.

As a commercial photographer, it’s incredibly important to know what makes a great picture. Just having a nice camera and fancy tools isn’t enough to capture the kind of powerful images that make the heart race.

It starts with a keen understanding of the brand. It requires technical expertise and a special eye -- one that knows the specific challenges inherent in delivering the money shot. The result is unique. Personal. Arresting.

Great commercial photography demands attention, drives action, and ultimately moves the needle. That's what John does.

The recent months have proved to be quite exciting as new projects now have to navigate around certain travel restrictions. Recent projects include photographing the new Porsche Taycan Turbo and 911 Carrera 4S. The challenge was the tight timeline of shooting two vehicles in a period of 48 hours with only one support crew and as well as being limited to a small area to shoot due to travel restrictions. Another exciting project was the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster Xago edition.

Kevin’s body of work has been used in commercial and editorial campaigns, in both print and digital platforms. Follow more of Kevin’s work on his website or Instagram.

Lukasz started his photography journey capturing the life on his local streets and collecting perfect locations for photo shoots.

Through street photography Lukasz was able to develop the skills to make the ordinary look extraordinary and create authentic and natural images.

Go to his website to see more of his work.

2020 was tough, challenging for everyone in the industry, yet it was Malek’s busiest and most successful year. During his 10-year career, so many new and current clients have become more confident and happier with the outcome quality and work with him on bigger campaigns. His work is seen all over the social media platforms of automotive manufacturers in the Middle East and globally.

One of his biggest campaigns is updating Nissan’s digital content library for 2020-2021 with over 400 photos of their lineup, and planning a whole campaign for Jeep Abu Dhabi from scratch for Ramadan 2020.

Malek is back in Canada and already started working with car dealers and collectors in Montreal and Ottawa.

His top clients: Nissan Middle East and Abu Dhabi, Audi Middle East, BMW Middle East, GMC Arabia, Porsche Middle East, Aston Martin Lagonda, Jeep Abu Dhabi, L’Officiel Arabia, Rolls Royce UAE, and many more.

Mierswa-Kluska's high-end clients  - global brands in cosmetics, cars, design or jewellery - often have big expectations.

They have worked for years on their products and the imagery created by Mierswa-Kluska becomes the public face of something in which they have invested time, dedication and love.

Employing the visual language of today and tomorrow, Mierswa-Kluska offers full-service content creation ranging from high-end product photography to CGI and moving images of cinematic quality.

In their studio in central Munich they have a collective of photographers, retouchers, visual artists, directors and back-office staff enabling an integrated production.

The corona situation has pushed them. They offer their clients a livestream. No matter where art director or client are, they can participate in the shooting live with different angles via an image mixer. 

Even the direct view through the camera can be transmitted all over the world.

Mierswa-Kluska were lucky  to get one of only 1500 built polestar 1 for this free project.

Nathan is a photographer specialising in automotive and transportation photography, capturing and presenting the motion and emotion they possess. His home base of Denver, Colorado provides close proximity to mountains and outdoor adventure, which translates to the natural feel of his work. 

This Spotlight features projects from the launch of the Boom Supersonic XB-1 aircraft, an early 60’s Indy car captured for RM Sotheby’s, and documenting the ARX-05 testing for Acura.

2021 is off to a good start and he can’t wait to share future projects. Follow along with more of his work on Instagram or his newly redesigned website.

Olaf Pignataro is a commercial photographer focused on automotive and lifestyle, based in London, Barcelona, and Milan. 

With a background in action and sports photography, he has a unique style portraying dynamic subjects on location, still with the high-end quality required in advertising. Olaf proved to be at ease in any environment, having lately shot a Lancia campaign underwater, with car and model submerged in a pool. 

He is at ease with moving images too, having directed yoga and athletics commercials for Nike and Huawei.

Olaf has recently completed commissions for Porsche, Jeep, Audi, FIAT, Alfa Romeo, Aprilia, Ducati, Pirelli.

Car and lifestyle photographer Oliver Paffrath began his career shooting fashion imagery, he has used this skill honed from fashion shoots to bring his unique style and lighting techniques to his car and automotive photography. Oliver also combines these techniques to create eye-catching and appealing motion and CGI content.

He now shoots for the world’s biggest car manufacturers on global advertising campaigns and car lifestyle brochures. Germany based, Oliver’s focus is on the ability to meet clients main restraints – timing, budget and quality in every production.

His extensive client list includes Allianz, Adidas, ABN Amro, Audi, ATU, BMW, Chevrolet, Credit Suisse, Honda, Hyundai, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, McLaren, Mazda, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, Škoda, Seat, Toyota and Volkswagen.

See more here and follow on Instagram.

Oliver is represented by JSR, you can follow them on Instagram.

Superstudio and Patrik Johall were assigned by Volvo to deliver print elements media in relation to “The Future is Electric” global campaign.

Adhering to the framework of a strong creative film concept, Superstudio produced still images that supported and expanded the settings and expressions in the campaign. 

The stills were to be perceived as part of the film and were also to be used as stand-alone campaign images, so Superstudio’s expertise in the field of automotive photography was beneficial in expressing the product and locations in a broader delivery that could be used independently. 

The field of scope included props and location casting. The social media campaign deliverables included conceptual development in cooperation with the client.

Los Angeles-based and Australian-born, Paul Barshon and his production crew have quickly adapted to shooting and filming under the Covid restrictions.

"Commercial photographers and directors are natural problem solvers and the current circumstances means there are problems to be solved. 

During these times, we have successfully managed productions for Toyota (CGI), Volvo, Polestar, Renault, Hyundai USA and Aston Martin."

Based in Germany and New Zealand, renowned automotive and landscape photographer Stephan Romer is always busy shooting stunning cars and breathtaking landscapes. This recent Porsche-Tequipment campaign was commissioned by ad agency KEKO in Frankfurt, Germany and shot in Slovenia. 

Multi award-winning photographer Stephan has also recently combined his passion for capturing landscapes and automotive campaigns, by launching a unique service NZondemand.com, creating bespoke New Zealand and Australian back-plates for automotive CGI campaigns.

Last but not least some of his recent landscape shots from Aoteraoa.

The last six months have been extremely successful for Sergei Zjuganov. 

There has been more and more interest in his work among international clients, car manufacturers and agencies, which proves that he and his team are fully meeting the highest standards of the industry.

January started with creating a full range of marketing assets for the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC team. February and March were busy with the largest project so far: he created a full set of 67 catalogue and advertising images of the newest Nissan Patrol Nismo, which were shot in studios and on location in Dubai, including static and motion shots, 360° shots, day and night shots and CGI backplates for KVs. The whole package was photographed and delivered to the client in an exceptionally short timeline.

The arrival of spring meant a chance to photograph a lifestyle series for Volvo and very talented fashion designer Lilli Jahilo. 

Sergei is available for creating assets for advertising and social media campaigns all around the world.

Simon Stock is a London-based, award-winning advertising photographer and director whose work takes him all over the world, photographing some of the most iconic brands. He is also an established commercials director and started his career with a short film called ‘El Apprentice’ which was shot in Chile and was shown at the LA Short Film Festival.

He has directed commercials for Bentley, Discovery Channel, Mercedes, Toyota, Volvo, Wild Aid, Norfolk Southern Railway, ITV, the ‘Bleed for England’ spot for the Rugby World Cup and most recently Toby Carvery and Travelodge.

See more here and follow on Instagram.

Simon is represented by JSR, follow them on Instagram.