STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 2019

Adrian Mueller is a still life, food and liquids photographer based in New York.

In 2018, Adidas hired Adrian and his team to execute nine different high profile campaigns throughout the year, including Adidas Parley. Parley, an organisation that addresses environmental threats towards the oceans, joined forces with Adidas for their latest shoe which is produced with plastic ocean debris. Stylist Megan Caponetto produced several stunning set designs around this concept with recycled plastic string materials. Those movable sets with built-in rigging for the shoes were skillfully framed, lit and captured by Adrian, all in camera, and resulted in beautiful print and motion assets for this worldwide campaign.

Clients such as Unilever, Kraft and Adidas are regularly looking to Adrian for his lighting skills, artistic visual sensibilities, clean and precise aesthetics, his craftsmanship and collaborative spirit to produce exquisite and arresting campaigns.

Annabel Staff is a London-based photographer who believes in the power of colour to transform the mundane into the glorious.

Her innovative images elevate the ordinary objects around us into vibrant eye-candy, surprising and delighting the audience with her bold, colourful, almost surreal approach to the world we usually take for granted.

She has worked with a varied range of clients including Jack Wills, MasterCard, Capital FM, XFM, eBay, Smirnoff, Hyundai, Vodafone, OLIO, Fuller’s, MTV, Nurofen and Nectar Card.

"A new year and Howlett Photography are at it again - generating unique, stunning and luxurious still life photography.

We had the chills when we submerged products in ice for global fashion brand Champion - brr! So we magicked a warm beach getaway for beauty giants Sanctuary. Oh, the feel of sand between our toes... in January! And now we're smelling like we're ready for summer after shooting choice men’s fragrances from Clive Christian.

Marvel at the beauty of our latest projects, follow our blog, or get in contact to discuss your next project.

Where we go and what we do next... Well, it's up to you!"

Clinton Hussey is an award-winning commercial photographer specialising in conceptual, food, still life, and recently, motion. Since 1995, he has been creating distinctive editorial and advertising imagery for brand and magazine clients in his hometown of Vancouver and abroad.

Originally a design student at Vancouver’s Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Clinton stumbled into photography at first accidentally and then with conviction as he fell for its demanding mix of creativity and technical grasp.

Clinton has earned both Grammy and Juno nominations for his album cover designs; his photography has won multiple National Magazine Awards, as well honours from Lotus, Applied Arts, D&AD, City & Regional Magazine Association, the Printing Industry of America, Communication Arts, PDN/Nikon, and many others.

Today, Clinton is expanding into video, creating ad campaigns for clients such as Method, Panago, and the Children of the Street Society. When he’s not making pictures, he’s building things, and spending time on the ocean and in the mountains with his wife, Amanda - also a photographer - and their two children.

File Photography Studio has operated exclusively in the field of commercial advertising and product photography since 2006, providing high quality services. Its main specialisations are photographing jewellery, packaged products and advertising photography, food and drinks.

Aside from photography, the company is specialised in professional post-production and retouching, meaning the final product reaches clients with the highest quality and aesthetics expected of File Photography Studio.

"Based in our proprietary studio, we constantly renew our expertise in both the modern equipment that is necessary for a new fully digital environment, and the techniques of photographing products."

Graham Tooby is a British photographer with a distinctive and recognizable photographic approach, clean and graphic with a dash of OCD.

Graham shoots for a diverse group of key industry players, recently including Samsung, Vogue, Aldar, Huda Beauty, John Lewis and IKEA amongst others.

Graham has an international client base and the ability to adapt to current trends and situations showing new and adaptive fresh work.

Harrie the Photographer can be downright foul; that is, when photographing rotten, five-week-old food (one of his many past creative still life projects). Otherwise, he’s a notoriously easy person to work with: friendly, dedicated and extremely trustworthy.

With an occasional flair for the provocative and a great passion for "creating the shot," Harrie, an award-winning photographer, has spent the last 16+ years making his mark on the world of commercial photography - most notably in the product and advertising domain.

Having worked with clients such as Tele2, Elsevier, Poppie Toys, TrunkMate, Tailor Made London, Kyocera, Men's Health, Orix Aviation and Munro Tailoring (to name a few), Harrie's strength lies in his mix of creativity and technical expertise.

Visit Harrie's website to get in touch or for more information.

Jan Kalish is an award-winning photographer specialising in splash still life, cosmetics and food & drink photography. She is available to shoot in Toronto and the United Kingdom.

With 25 years of shooting experience, her images merge creative and technical expertise; a client-fulfilled narrative within an image.

Jan works in the studio or on location, providing meticulous attention to client considerations.

Her extensive experience includes shooting for advertising, design, publishing and editorial clients; creating imagery that reflects her specialist knowledge in lighting and timely visual problem-solving skills.

Recent projects include shoots for a London and international perfume launch; cookbooks and studio fashion. Jan’s provides in-house; concept development, styling, photography and full production services. Jan was honoured to receive multiple industry awards in 2018

Kevin Norris is a New York-based still life photographer. Following his passion for photography, he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. He furthered his education by completing his Master’s of Science from Long Island University.

Kevin's latest projects include work for Bulova, Flexon, Dragon Eyewear, Marchon NYC, Women’s Wear Daily, and Robb Report.

From working with intricate compositions to complex lighting scenarios, Kevin and his team of retouchers, stylists and assistants embrace the challenges that come with every still life photo shoot.

After working as a producer for many years, Kyla Elaine made the career change to photography after a life-long passion for the craft.

While playing with light and experimenting with shapes, textures, objects and colours, it’s her unexpected approach that makes you look.

From polished to playful, Kyla challenges the boundaries of still life photography - unique angles, intended shadows, gravity-defying placements and animations serve to create memorable images.

Her creativeness, collaboration efforts and chill attitude in the studio is why clients like adidas, Karl Lagerfeld, Ace & Tate, Tommy Hilfiger, Reebok and Buddha to Buddha want to shoot with her.

Kyla is currently working on a personal project titled 'Unfolded'. By unfolding the paper and using light to enhance, she aims to show the graphic nature, structure, beauty, and the care that goes into making each piece of the ancient art of Japanese culture.

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, Pandora Jewellery, The Financial Times and Glamour Magazine.

Munich-based Studio Mierswa-Kluska is a common project of two photographers, Andreas Mierswa and Markus Kluska, and their team of senior in-house retouchers.

Focussed on shooting luxury products, they are commissioned for the highest shoot and post-production quality by clients in Europe and Asia, including Audi, Swarovski, Porsche Design and SK2 Cosmetics.

Reacting to the market's increasing demand for moving content, they founded the film department mpluskfilms to bring their experience to a new direction. Specialiced in the latest technology in digital motion control, highspeed and CGI direction, they have produced a range of online content and TVC shoots.

Nicklas Ingemann is a Danish photographer based in Copenhagen, working within the fields of still life and fashion photography.

His photography is distinctive for clearly demonstrating the high quality of the subject being shot. Whether he is working with fashion or still life, he produces images that are at once vibrant, strong and beautiful. Combining technical skill with an acute knowledge of the language of photography, he has developed a style and a bold yet simple aesthetic.

Through his excellent results, and while owning one of the best daylight studios in Denmark, he has worked with brands such as McDonald's, Cosmopolitan, Unicef, Bestseller, InterSport and ONLY to name a few.

Central London-based still life photography studio Pixeleyes Photography, with over 15 years of experience under its belt, has become synonymous with beautiful images using cutting-edge techniques.

A small but cohesive team, they shoot across advertising, fashion and beauty, specialising in sculptural liquid effects and infusing objects with a tactile sense of movement.

Pixeleyes recently has shot campaigns for Carolina Herrera, Marks and Spencer, Space.NK and Soap & Glory, while the rise of Iconic London, a rapidly accelerating UK-based beauty brand, can be charted through Pixeleyes' deftly luxurious imagery.

Client-oriented but with an elusively distinct style, Pixeleyes' stunning, high-end images bring inanimate objects to life.

Sara Morris shoots still life, food & drink and the occasional pet and person too.

Her lighting expertise and eye for colours and textures allows her to create images that are both beautiful and captivating.

Sara has a wonderful team of stylists, model makers, set builders and shoots from her studio in Haggerston, London.

Scott Goodwin has been shooting personally and professionally for over 25 years. His studios are located in Boston and Ipswich, MA, but he shoots both domestically and internationally.

Scott particularly enjoys the variety of challenges that the diversity of his assignments bring. He will be shooting on location abroad one week, followed the next by in-studio food photography.

From location to food to fashion, Scott adds his trained eye and creative talents alongside an even temperament that keeps the shoot together and moving. His work varies from gallery exhibitions to advertising, billboards, collateral, in-store displays, annual reports and now video.

Scott not only diversifies his abilities in photography, but his personal hobbies are also broad ranged. He shoots competitive skeet, is a certified rebreather scuba diver, has raced cars from Canada to Florida with the Porsche Club, and spends lots of his free time playing tennis and boating around Ipswich.

YA studio stands for Yasmin Peled & Arye Morad, two passionate commercial photographers. For more than 20 years, they have been striving for perfection, innovation, beauty and sense; all basic ingredients to turn professionalism into art, the art of photography. They love people and they love food.

“Wherever you are, you’re more than welcome to join our journey”.

You can find more about them at their website.

Takahiro Igarashi is a still life photographer based in NYC. He was born in Japan and raised in the United States.

After graduating from Savannah College of Art & Design with a B.F.A. in photography, he decided to move to New York to pursue his dreams as a still life photographer.  For nearly six years, he has worked with some of the top commercial and fine art still life photographers in the industry.

Working both in commercial and fine art, he has created images for many high-end clients. He has a deep passion for the entire process, from conceptualising to the delivery of final images.

Takahiro believes in the power of simplicity - the power to communicate an idea in a moment. His imagery derives from expressing the character of an object, while emphasising the essence within it: “Sophistication is the core structure behind simplicity.”