moscow Mar 2011

Avocado continues working successfully with leading agencies and clients on the global stage. Recent new additions to the team include Marcus May and Catherine Gailloud.

Latest work from its photographers includes:

• Urs Wyss - Skins worldwide, ESEC/BESI. Production: Avocado Zurich.
• Morgan Norman - BAKU magazine cover and portraits with Emin Agalarov. Production: Avocado Moscow.
• Johan Visschedijk - CGI work for Volvo.
• Dimitri Tolstoi - Stiletto Magazine and Bolero Men. Production: Avocado Zurich.
• Serge Guerand - Giorgio Armani Eyewear and Philippe Matignon Lingerie.
• Marco Grob - 'Stars unlimited' for various magazines and campaigns.
• Susanne Stemmer - Underwater ballet for Vienna State Opera, INWIEN, ROHM Edelsteine, and BC magazine/advertorial for P2 Bikinis.
• Joerg Kritzer - Florena/Beiersdorf and Teaser magazine.
• David Byun - Heike Jarick spring/summer 2011.
• Claudia Goetzelmann - catalogue for Camelia Skikos.

For more information about Avocado photographers visit the website or call +7 495 999 68 98 / +7 903 755 2471.

Latest news from Vitals Moscow:

• Slava Filippov shot a cover story for Indian Vogue with pop singer Genella D’Souza, and took portraits of Japanese football player Kelsuki Honda as 'Men of The Year' for the cover of GQ Japan.
• Jegor Zaika shot Masha Kirsanova for L’Officiel Russia’s Beauty supplement. He also captured the most interesting places in Yekaterinburg for a special supplement of Russian Vogue.
• Alexey Kolpakov shot a cover story for Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine as well as a fashion story for L’Officiel Russia.
• Art director and stylist Philip Vlasov created a Fall/Winter 2010/2011 ad campaign for Sanahunt Luxury Concept Store, photographed by Alexey Kolpakov.
• Erez Sabag shot a cover story for InStyle Russia with famous Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova in Los Angeles.
• Laurent Darmon and Erez Sabag did two campaigns for beauty brand Olay. For the 'Total Effects' campaign, Laurent shot Olay's new Russian faces.
• Slava Fillipov presented a new personal photo book entitled 'BBook' containing some of his best ever work.

German-born photographer Frank Herfort has been based in Moscow for four years. He shoots architecture and corporate images for Russian and global clients from the advertising, editorial and construction industries. His high-quality technique makes him one of the Russian market's outstanding photographers.

Frank recently shot St. Petersburg and Moscow city guidebooks for Phaidon/Wallpaper, and completed projects for Russian Standart Vodka, Russian Standart Bank, Aecom, Ritz Carlton, Kaspersky Lab and Burda Yukom.

His editorial work has featured in Wallpaper UK, Interior + Design Russia, Architectural Digest Russia, L'Officiel Russia, Stern, Spiegel, Monocle, Zeit and Jalouse. Advertising clients include Siemens, Bosch, Telekom Austria Group, Adidas, Audi, Aeroflot, Alfa Bank, Soglasie Insurance and Berliner Morgenpost.

Frank also maintains an office in Berlin and loves to travel throughout the world creating images for his clients. Visit his website for more information.

Egon Gade works out of Copenhagen for Danish and Scandinavian design companies. His clients include international design icons such as Bang & Olufsen, Fritz Hansen, Malene Birger and Montana.

Simplicity best describes Egon's pictures. Growing-up in a country with famous designers like Arne Jacobsen, Paul Kjærholm and Hans J. Wegner has significantly influenced his work as a photographer.

As well as working on many international campaigns, Egon has won numerous awards in the Clio Show, Cannes Lion and the Lurzers Archive. He looks forward to the new and inspirational challenge of working with Moscow clients.

Vladimir Kochetkov is a Moscow-based photographer specialising in advertising, fashion and beauty photography. He has over eight years experience in post production and digital workflow.

Clients include Oriflame, Fleishman Hillard, Baersdorf, Faberlic, Beeline, Allianz, Vichy, Adidas, Rondel and Vitek.

Editorial clients include Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Sex And The City Magazine.

Visit his website for more information.

Dmitry Zholobov is a renowned Moscow-based commercial photographer. He began shooting ads in 1995 and has since participated in hundreds of commercial projects. This experience gives him priceless flexibility to work across different genres and styles, adjusting his way of shooting to fit his clients' individual needs.

Dmitry uses the most advanced photographic and digital technology to obtain maximum results. His recent work includes campaigns for Moscow-based advertising agencies Euro RSCG, BBDO, Publicis United, McCann-Erickson, Ogilvy and Instinct.

Visit his website for more information.

Fedor Markushevich is based in Moscow and specialises in fashion and advertising photography.

His clients have included GQ, Tatler, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Icons, L'Officiel, Madame Figaro, InStyle, Elle, Marie Claire, Esquire, Wallpaper, Mini, TimeOut, Yes, Playboy, FHM and Maxi.

In 2009 Fedor received the Silver Crown Award, the main prize of the Moscow 'Fashion and Style in Photography' Festival.

Visit his website to see more of his work.

Barely one year old, this hidden treasure recently won TimeOut’s 'Best Gastronomic Café Award', which isn’t much of a surprise seeing as the owners work as regular staff.

A master in chemistry in the kitchen, a bar guru who has taught almost every existing bartender in town to mix it right, an exotic looking restaurant expert greeting the guests and talking wine, and a cultural studies scholar as a waiter. All of this results in the best burgers in town, unique homemade pasta, inventive oak-aged cocktails and a range of delicious infusions and an ambiance that makes guests forget this is Moscow.