Some time ago agency Kolle Rebbe with art director Jörg Dittmann asked us to help with an UHU glue gun advertising campaign. The idea was to represent some iconic souvenir figurines such us a Nutcracker, Cupid, Buddha and Ramses as if they were about to be threatened by the glue gun. The headline for this wonderful project was “Hands Up”. Photographer Bernd Westphal, modelmaker Arndt von Hoff and Jörg started searching for the figurines in all kinds of touristic shops. The problem? They all looked perfect and never had their arms up! Read more
I am mesmerized by the world of Lieko Shiga. I encountered her work on the online magazine 1000 Words Photography, where you can read an excellent review of her new series of images. I instead would like to quote her own words as they are as powerful as her own photographs. Read more
These are only the first three pictures of an ongoing project made in collaboration with automotive and landscape photographer Markus Wendler. We have worked together many times on commercial jobs and we are often on the phone chatting about life and work and it’s one of those relationships that seems to be working on the same wavelength, particularly creatively. So it came natural that we decided to finally collaborate together on something different than advertising; something where we did not have the pressure of showing the cars at particular angles and light, but rather the opposite. Read more
We’ve been to the Mediterranean Sea over the 1st of May and visited the wonderful town of Rovinj. On our way back to the hotel, in the middle of nowhere, i saw that ad. I had to pull over and take some snapshots.
Jürgen Klopp Artwork by Recom (Agency: Heimat Berlin
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MERCEDES BENZ – F1
Mercedes Benz, Stuttgart, Germany, 2014
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NISSAN QASHQAI
Nissan Qashqai, London 2014
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TOYOTA …is everywhere!
Time Out, London, May 2014
Toyota, Brussels, Belgium, 2014
85 meters wide image on Toyota’s head office building in Brussels!
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FORD
Ford, Team Detroit Advertising Agency, USA
Hundreds of insertions and over 90 different headlines for the Ford advertising campaign shot by Nick Meek. Here on dispay on the wall of Team Detroit head ofiice.
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THOMAS BROWN for THE TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE, LUXURY SUPPLEMENT
The Telegraph Magazine, LUXURY SUPPLEMENT, Spring 2014
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ELIZAVETA PORODINA for QVEST MAGAZINE
QVEST Magazine, Germany, April 2014
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MERCEDES – BENZ
Mercedez Benz, Germany, April 2014
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VW BEETLE
Germany, January 2013
In the grey beginning of 2013 these sunny positive VW Beetle Campaign images were all over Germany.
I liked the contrast.
Valkswagen Beetle Advertising Campaign
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NISSAN
Rochester, Kent, UK, October 2013
Stoke Newington, London, UK, October 2013
Nissan Advertising Campaign, October 2013
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SMIRNOFF
Smirnoff, Seven Sister Underground Station, London, UK
‘Teetering on the Precipice of Your Mistrust’, Kila & Rusharc
We are finally back after a long period of absence…herrr sorry for the big gap! So it is now overdue to post this still life series which has been finalised by our retouchers before summer and shot, styled and art directed by photographers Kila & Rusharc, who are only at the beginning of their collaboration. Behind this mysterious name there are Philip and Alessandra, with the latter being also a contributor to this blog and my other half. Read more
Cell, Diasec mounted c-type print, 120 x 150 cm, 2004
When I discussed Anne Hardy‘s images with a friend, I asked: “What do you like about her work?”, he replied with a bewildered gaze whilst staring at the screen: “They are just something else”, his mouth open. I guess there is a lot to take in when one looks at Hardy’s photographs. They hit you from different sides as each object is carefully placed, creating scenes packed with multi-layered meanings. Read more
Driven by commitment to solve customer needs, Franck Allais
Franck Allais, whom we have been collaborating with for many years, is a conceptual photographer who ‘likes disrupting the habitual way of seeing and questioning everyday visual references’. In ‘The Weight of Words’ series he highlights how brands pollute our everyday landscape. The images and video, recently exhibited at KK Outlet, have all been retouched in our London studio. Read more
What a great concept photographers Wilcox – Johansson together with super creative retoucher Kate Booker had for this fashion editorial published on I Love You magazine. Wilcox-Johansson shot the Twin Peaks inspired series mimicking the poses and style of soap operas and American dramas (which David Lynch was also making references to). The “Twin Peaks” theme was reinforced in post-production by Kate, who was amazing in creating different colour moods and effects, which very subtly enhanced the concept. Read more
Life’s A Beach (I), 2012.Life’s A Beach (II), 2012
Peter Funch is a Danish photographer, whose work I’ve been a fan of for a long time. So when we opened our studio in Brooklyn last year and found out that his studio is just next door to ours, I was very excited of course!
These images are taken from his recents series ‘Triptychs’, which i really like. I always thought that they were either shot during a storm or set up with giant wind machines, so I was quite intrigued when he told me, that these images were taken on a Caribbean island which is located close to an airport. Read more
An old project I’m still very fond of is this fireman series of Holger Pooten.
After we brainstormed for a while together, Holger shot the real model on location and we then spent a day in the studio of setbuilder Carmel Said, setting mannequins on fire. Since I’m a little obsessed with fire anyway, it was an insane amount of fun despite a five-meter high wall nearly collapsing on us.
We kept putting mannequins on fire until we had enough flames and smoke to work with in post-production in order to retouch them onto the real model. Each flame had to be masked and composited with a mix of different blending modes as one of the tricky things about compositing fire is that it can’t just be screened or multiplied!
This project has also been published in 125 Magazine.
