sydney Jul 2010

Southern Media Asia has had a busy and well-travelled period with jobs throughout Australia and Asia.

Projects included Audi Q7, Audi A5 Sportsback, BMW X6, VW, Mercedes and Volvo, with executive producer Duncan Stewart and his team of producers shooting in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand.

Southern Media now also specialises in reduced crews for CGI jobs, providing cost-effective shoots across Australasia (live shoots or CGI backgrounds).

Contact Duncan direct on + 61 418 350 220.

Title Artist Management is an international agency and full service production company representing the elite of fashion, beauty and advertising photographers from around the globe working throughout Southeast Asia.

The company is owned and managed by agent and producer, Maree Mitchell. With extensive global production experience Maree has produced shoots throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and America. 

Title offers full line production services for overseas clients shooting in Australia. It can handle all shooting requirements, from pre-production through to the end result including post production where required. Production services include budget management, casting, location searches, equipment rental, accommodation, transportation logistics, special effects, catering, assistants and hair and make-up teams.

The agency's unsurpassed experience and local knowledge makes for a seamless shooting process. Clients include Levi's Southeast Asia, Crown Macau Casino, Nokia worldwide, Heineken worldwide, Vanity Fair magazine and Vogue China.

The Kitchen Creative Management is a full service photographic production company based in Sydney. They offer local and international clients a one-stop-shop for all photographic production requirements.

Representing some of Australia's most highly acclaimed and technically accomplished photographers, the company has the infrastructure to manage and facilitate any brief from conception through to completion.

Production services include budgeting, crew co-ordination, casting, line production, props and wardrobe, set design, model making and location scouting.

Email or call +61 2 9516 5955 for more information.

Sun Productions is a full service production company with access to the best locations, talent and industry professionals in Australia, a country renowned for its amazing locations, weather and world class talent.

The company offers to provide the best production services to make every shoot beautiful, efficient and highly enjoyable. From creative concept development to efficiently managed pre-, on set and post production, the company can skilfully co-ordinate every aspect of a project. It supplies creative teams, logistically challenging locations, travel, accommodation and logistics, props (from pyrotechnics to giraffes!), on set production, great catering and coffee, budget management and reconciliation, post production management, print production management and talent casting.

Recent projects include:

• Ellery for Sportsgirl.
• Sportsgirl 'Creative' magazine.
• Photo and web campaigns for Oxford A/W 2010, Marcs A/W 2010, David Lawrence A/W 2010 and 'Riders' by Lee.
• Rosemount Australian Fashion Week 2010 - casting for Zimmermann, Ellery, Ginger & Smart, Kate Sylvester.
• German Glamour magazine.
• Paypal image library Australasia.

Contact Sunny or visit the website for more information.

Six Wolves is a full service photo production agency based in Sydney. The company has access to the best talent and leading creative professionals in the country, providing a one- stop-shop for clients from creative concept development to casting, pre-production, on set and post production.

Many years of industry experience and exceptional professional relationships allow Six Wolves to creatively and efficiently deliver brand imagery that is always on budget and beyond expectation.

Six Wolves also acts as casting directors for a variety of large-scale fashion and advertising brands. The agency casts professional models but also has online talent galleries of male and female street talent. The company guarantees to present the best talent available, whether that is by discovering new faces through street casting or scouting through Australia's top modelling agencies.

Email or call Adam on +61 401 500 664.

Working throughout Australia, Alex Pott has been creatively filling photography briefs for the fashion and advertising industry since 2004. With an interest in still-life and landscape photography, Alex soon found his passion for fashion and advertising. He has successfully photographed for local, national and international clients and has been published in several magazines.

Viewing each project as a collaboration rather than just a job, Alex relies on his great sense of creativity, enthusiasm and easy-going nature to come up with results to suit the broadest range of projects. With knowledge and experience in the many intricate levels of pre and post production, Alex thrives on assembling a team that can deliver excellence at all levels whilst still creating a fun, innovative atmosphere.

Allan Myles studied photography in Glasgow, Scotland, and has been a professional photographer since 1986. He emigrated to Australia in 1992, setting up his existing studio and building a loyal client base in Perth from where he collected a number of PADC Awards between 1994 and 2006.

Career highlights include shots taken for the W.A. Turf Club that won many local and international awards, including the coveted New York Festival. More recently, he received Silver and two Bronze at the Australasia AWARD awards, a Folio award, and two Cannes Bronze Lions for his renowned Stolichnaya Vodka work. In the past two years, Allan has also had five Cannes finalists for Hudson (Singapore) and Gamehog (NZ), as well as four bronze Cannes for Wonderbra and ESPN.

He currently works around the globe with clients from Hong Kong (HK Tourism), London, South Africa, Malaysia (Prudential), Singapore (IBM, HP, Standard Chartered, Mercedes, Hudson, Nokia, M1Mobile and Guinness), Beijing (361), Tokyo (Rensas Global, Senoby Drinks and Toyota), and Auckland (Visa and Gamehog). Over recent years Allan has branched out into moving images and has shot over 20 TV Commercials, collecting a Silver PADC for cinematography in the process.

French-born Philippe Cometti is based between Paris, New York and Sydney and is considered a world leader in fashion and beauty photography. Shooting for over 15 years, his impressive client base speaks for itself with names such as Hermes, Lanvin, YSL, Emporio Armani, Moschino and Faconnable, to name but a few. Philippe’s images grace the cover of UK Harper's Bazaar as well as publications including Numero, Vogue (Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, France), and many more.

His wealth of experience and exquisite lighting techniques have led to an amazing body of work. Visit the website for more information.
 

With 15 years of industry experience, Dean Tirkot has enjoyed dedicating his career to creating engaging and entertaining photographic works that entice and inspire the viewer. Specialising in portraiture and lifestyle photography, he has worked hard to define his unique and surreal character driven style.

What separates Dean from the competition is his ability to explore old and new techniques to achieve his final product, a method that has earned him the reputation of being a true craftsman as both a master photographer and Photoshop retoucher.

In 2007 Dean won a 'Highly Commended' award in the Doug Moran portraiture prize. In 2009 he was again a finalist in the Doug Moran prize and also the Sydney Life exhibition. This year Dean has been listed in the Graphis Photo annual.

Dean recently shot the latest Rip Curl Denim campaign and made two 90-second video clips for the company. Other recent clients include Skull Candy, Oakley, Surf Dive & Ski and Rockstar Energy Drinks.

Renowned as a fashion and beauty photographer, Australian-born Jason Capobianco is presently based between Sydney and Asia. He has been taking photographs for over a decade and is constantly on the road shooting in foreign locations such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Italy, Paris, Venice and New York.

Jason is accustomed to shooting with local crews from around the world using local production houses and agencies. His adaptability, creativity and experience contribute to a smooth running shoot with premium results.

Jason's editorial work is high fashion focussed and he regularly contributes to titles including Vogue Australia and Vogue China, Harper's Bazaar Australia, Sleek and Tush magazines in Germany. His international advertising clients include Crown Casino Macau, Jacques Dessange Paris, and a recent campaign with Cate Blanchett for the Sydney Theatre Company.

Known for her highly developed aesthetic and technical skills, Michele Aboud’s interpretive style as a fine arts photographer has been honed through her experience, education and ongoing experimentation and development.

Michele has distinguished herself through the medium of commercial photography, winning many international and national awards for excellence. She has extensive experience of shooting abroad, with her many years spent travelling through Europe culminating in an extended stay in Paris from where she focused on editorial work. She later spent three years with New York agency Trelise before concentrating once again on the Australasia market.

International campaigns include VISA with Liv Tyler, Lindt Chocolate, Ferrero Chocolate Italy, Toyota, Smeg Maldives, Singapore Airlines, Clarion Car Stereo Bozell Japan, Thai Airways, Japan, Nokia worldwide, Johnson & Johnson Asia and Australia. Magazines include Interview USA, Vogue Australia, Harper's Bazaar Singapore and Australia, Elle Singapore, Mexico and Australia, OYSTER, Wired USA, Rolling Stone, Noise, Australia Style, Belle Magazine, Vogue Living Australia and Ambiente Germany.

Michele is currently working on a solo exhibition 'Still', featuring a selection of black and white portraits.

Christian Mushenko specialises in shooting food and people in a distinctive ‘silky and romantic’ style. His work is alive and vibrant, with an eye for beauty and humanity.

His award-winning photography is sought after by clients to put them ahead of their competition. Since 1988, Christian has been shooting for some of the world's largest brands working with direct and agency clients in the UK, USA, Asia and Australia, producing everything from global campaigns to small pro bono work.

He is also known for his lush fine art seascapes that have featured in Hollywood movies and grace walls from Manhattan to Sydney.

In Sydney he is based out of a converted warehouse with full kitchen and daylight facilities, as well as a pool.

US-born Robert Erdmann is best known for his incredible celebrity-based body of work. His folio reads like a who's-who of the celebrity world having shot everyone from Heidi Klum to Ann Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce and Cameron Diaz. Constantly travelling between the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and Asia for his shoots, Robert produces endless beauty campaigns for the likes of Pantene, Olay and Platinum Jewellery with celebrities such as Catherina Zeta Jones and Zhang Ziyi.

Clients include Pantene, Oil of Olay, Platinum, Revlon, Johnson & Johnson, MaxMara, Max&Co, Nine West, Bourgois, Tag Heuer, J Crew, Target and Aldo Shoes.

Publications include French, Japanese, German, US and Spanish Vogue, Vogue Hommes International, French and German Elle, British, US, French and German Glamour, American, German, French and British GQ, US Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Wonderland, ID, The Face, Dansk, Nylon and Black.

Shannon Plummer specialises exclusively in photographing animals both on location and in the studio. Her experience and passion for wild and domestic animals can be seen through an impressive portfolio, and she has the largest existing archive of 'studio - on white' images of Australian reptiles - including some of the world's most venomous snakes.

With a background in design and art direction, Shannon brings her unique eye and natural affinity with animals together to create visually stunning work that has been internationally awarded and exhibited.

She is a regular contributor to national and international publications and is available for commissions worldwide.

World-renowned director and photographer Simon Stock has ventured to some of the furthest corners of the world in search of striking imagery for his impressive list of prestigious clients.

His personal projects have included documenting the landscapes and people of Chile, Tibet, Mount Everest, The Arctic Circle, New Zealand and the northern territories of Australia. Simon has been a consistent winner at the Association of Photographers Awards in London, and his work for BMW was included in the D&AD Annual. His first solo exhibition, a project shot in New Zealand, was recently held at the Blink Gallery in London.

Commercial clients include Acura, Alpha Romeo, Audi, American Airlines, Bank of Nevada, BMW, Bombardier, BP, British Airways, Castrol, Deutsche Telekom, Discovery Channel, Disney, Dodge, Emirates, Fairy, Ford, HSB, Hummer, Hyundai, Interbrew/Castlemaine xxxx, Jaguar, Jeep, Kawasaki, Lexus, Land Rover, London Transport, Lufthansa, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestlé, O2, P&O Cruises, Porsche, Qatar Financial Centre, RBS, Renault, Toyota, Vauxhall, Versus, Volkswagen and Vodafone. Editorial clients include Car Magazine and LIV Magazine.

Tim Richardson works internationally as a photographer and director. He contributes to several international publications including Dazed & Confused, V Magazine, Interview and Vogue. Recent campaigns included Lee, Levi's, Sony and Nike.

Tim's technically innovative and conceptual approach has also led to several still life campaigns for Heineken and Nokia.

In the last two years he has published two books - most recently the limited edition 'Physical Frequencies'. His photographic work is regularly exhibited and is in the collections of Deutsche Bank and Sir Elton John.

His latest directing projects include commercials for Van Heusen, Sydney Dance Company and Friedrich Gray. His second short film, 'Procession', was recently shown at the OneDotZero Film Festival in London and his most recent film, '6 Breaths' for the Sydney Dance Company, was shown at the Venice Dance Biennale in 2010.

Blue Fish is led by director/photographer Glenn Gibson and his dedicated team of eight staff who bring together all facets of production, shooting and post under one roof to form a dynamic creative service. With over 20 years experience the company specialises in architecture, automotive, travel, tourism, people and lifestyle work.

Photography, directing, CGI and Spheron location shooting is supported by complete post production facilities. Clients can tap into the full service or specific areas of interest, while overseas photographers and crews can access studio and equipment resources from Blue Fish's support company, Eleven40.

Blue Fish recently completed the global visual asset production for the Mazda5 launch using a mix of photography and CGI. This was the ninth global launch shoot the company has completed for Mazda in the last seven years. Lead CGI artist Josh Bare created the stunning Syd Mead-inspired CGI image shown in this Showcase for an entry into the worldwide Syd Mead competition, while Christopher Howe has been busy expanding the library of CGI backplates and matching Spheron HDRI domes.

In An Instant Photography is an event photography service for private, public and corporate functions. Unlike most photographic services catering to the event industries, In An Instant uses a vintage Polaroid camera for on-the-spot photographic delight. Professional lighting is used to give the photos a studio feel, and to spice things up the company has an ever-growing collection of props for clients to wear during their photographic sessions.

Clients include: Carriage Works, Be Spoke Audio, Sun Studios Australia and Amnesty International.

Contact Jess on 0403 360 084 for more information.

S2 Photographic Studios and Equipment Hire offers privacy and personal service close to the heart of Sydney. The company provides a perfect one-stop solution for overseas clients shooting in Australia.

Facilities include two large studio spaces with cycs and one smaller daylight studio, all equipped with WiFi Internet access. S2 has a huge range of rental equipment with on site technical assistance, including cameras and digital support, Broncolor, Briese and Profoto lighting resources. The company is able to source any additional gear requested by clients. Two vans are available for convenient location shooting and equipment delivery, and the company offers shipping services throughout Australia and New Zealand. Its team has wide local knowledge for accommodation, dinner and entertainment options.

S2 also provides full production services, including castings, location sourcing, budget management, location vehicles, set building, shooting permits, catering, accommodation and transportation logistics.