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Oli Kellett - Personal Work

Oli has been finding pockets of sunshine to shoot his latest personal work around the capital.

Beate Sonnenberg - Personal Work

Beate recently took a short break from shooting still life and photographed these verdant landscapes while on holiday in Crete.

Asteroid by Rob Payne

Rob Payne and The Operators have collaborated on a project that crosses the boundary of print and motion resulting in both a high-end photographic still and a motion piece. By utilizing their individual strengths they generated the creative idea, photography, retouching, CGI, animation and VFX to produce this short clip: Asteroid!

Frank Herholdt for Completely London

Frank recently shot an editorial feature for Completely London magazine about creatures and their keepers in the city. Meet Chris and his pigs and Sharon and her bees!

Oli Kellett for MicroLoan

MicroLoan's mobile campaign has just won a Gold Lion at this year's Cannes Lion Awards. The campaign launch at Westfield featured an interactive billboard – as people Tweeted donations, pennies were added to the board, eventually forming a picture of the women that the donation helped. These original portraits were shot by our Oli.

View a short film from the fundraising day here: The MicroLoan Foundation's Pennies For Life

Agency: DLKW Lowe   Creative: Paul Hancock

Finger Industries for the Lloyds Olympic Bus

Finger Industries were asked to caricature the 13 performers, who are travelling on the Lloyds Olympic Bus, as it follows the flame around the UK. Keep an eye out for these characters when the flame passes through your area!

Agency: Rufus Leonard

Stuart Hall for Hiscox

There aren't many photographers who relish the thought of staying up all night to get the perfect morning shot but this is exactly why these images by Stuart look so epic.

Shot in London and the Lake District respectively, they mirror the exact words used by the client Hiscox to represent their 'AS GOOD AS OUR WORD' tag line.

You may have seen them around town already but the best bit, there is still one more to hit the highways! Watch this space...

Agency: VCCP    Creatives: Steve McCallum and Ian Edwards

Rob Payne - Pan European Campaign for Kronenbourg

These stunning shots were taken by Rob in Paris last month. They encapsulate a mixture of landscapes with complimentary, detailed still life. 

Some shot in studio, such as the terrace, and then set into the view of Paris alongside individually shot hot air balloons. Eye catching non?

The eagle eyed amongst you will recognise the clever use of Kronenbourg's brand colours in the images: dark blue landscapes with red used to pick out the details.

Beer anyone?

Agency: Fred & Farid. Creative Director: Volker Gehr. 

Elise Dumontet - Personal Work

Elise has been adding a Joker-style twist to her latest beauty tests!
Next month is a busy one for Elise, with more shoots for Sainsbury's, Liz Earle, and Boots.

Gary Burchell - Night Observations

Gary typically photographs people, however sometimes he ventures out into the night to shoot the odd moody landscape.

Oli Kellett - Team Vodkovia

Oli's creation Team Vodkovia is getting a lot of media attention. It's a shame we couldn't get tickets to see these athletes compete this summer!  Great review of the project on Miista: Natural Talent.

Elise Dumontet shoots Gok Wan and Tom Daley

Aside from her usual hair and beauty photography, Elise often shoots for her best friend Gok. Naturally he asked her to shoot the cover for his new cook book 'Gok Cooks Chinese'.  Over the past ten years or so Elise has been taught to do a mean dim-sum dish or two by her 'intrepid master' Mr Wan!

Penguin came back a week later to see if she would shoot for them again, this time Tom Daley for the cover of his biography (still only 17!) which has just hit the shelves.

Frank Herholdt - Personal Work

Frank shot some new personal work while in South Africa. He also just finished up a project in London for Diageo commissioned by the WARL Group (which we can't show yet). This week he is actually hoping for rain, which he needs for an atmospheric shoot for Rothmans, commissioned by Ogilvy Moscow.

Jasper White at Grid Photo Festival

Jasper's Tunis series is featured in Getty Images' exhibition The Consequence of Consequence at Grid Photo Festival in Amsterdam. The project depicts deserted and plundered palaces of the former ruling elite following the Arab Spring. One of his images is being used to promote the festival, which is on until July 1, 2012.

More info at GridPhotoFestival.com

Elise Dumontet for Liz Earle

Elise has shot the launch campaign for Liz Earle's new make-up range, Liz Earle Colour.

Tim MacPherson for Sunbrella

Tim shot these for an agency in North Carolina. Their creatives got the idea from some of his personal work. It pays to shoot for fun and passion!  He also shot the stop motion films for the campaign, which you can view here.

Credit Suisse - Making Of film with Peter Lippmann

Peter Lippmann's recent work for Credit Suisse involved intricate model making and hundreds of exquisite jewels to create a luxurious stop-motion animation. Check out the Making Of film for a look behind the scenes:

Beate Sonnenberg for HP

Beate shot this image for Hewlett-Packard last week and worked with the brilliant set designer Hatty Ellis-Coward.  

Peter Lippmann for GHD

Every girl's best friend, GHD, were looking to give the still life side of their latest campaign a sumptuous and rich feel to match their newly designed higher end products.

King of Opulence, Peter Lippmann, was a clear front runner for the job and he joined forces with Paris based Herve Sauvage who built the atmospheric forest backgrounds.

Hard to demonstrate wind power in a print execution, but we like to think he cracked it.
Thanks to the great team at RKCR/Y&R.

Personal work: Gary Burchell

Gary's latest series takes the theme of "urban training"...

Finger Industries latest for HSBC

Finger Industries have created their second animation for HSBC's ongoing Sharesave campaign which is being supported by some lovely but simple print concepts - a departure from their usual 3D look and feel illustration.

Happy Easter!

Something a little more lighthearted than usual from Patrice de Villers.

But perhaps this is her new style? Check her out being interviewed for Coutts describing some of the more amusing highs and lows that came with producing her book Love Music Love Food: Patrice de Villiers - Singing for your supper

Stakeout in the Lake District

Stuart Hall was shooting in the Lake District for VCCP, but the location he chose just happened to be the favourite haunt of a local amateur photographer...

In order to claim his territory and nab the best spot for his tripod, Stuart and the crew had to arrive before sunrise and set up in the dark.

The shot turned out beautifully though – so maybe a little bit of competition is never a bad thing?

Keep an eye out for some epic 96-sheet vistas all around London from May.

Lanzarote, not so grotty

Last weekend Elise Dumontet took a break from her studio beauty photography to run around after toddlers on the beach for Sainsbury's summer fashion range. She claims not to have a maternal side but
now we're not so sure.

Behind the scenes photos courtesy of Skye's Blackberry.

Frank Herholdt in the 6th Arte Laguna Prize

Frank has won the Press Award in the 6th Arte Laguna Prize, and of course we are very proud!

Patrice de Villiers for M&S

Don't forget your mums this weekend.

Our photographers are all over Feature Shoot

We are Feature Shoot's biggest fans. This week saw two more of our photographers featured on their blog: Oli Kellett's Quirky Photographs of a Fictitious Olympic Team, and Kitschy Brothel Interiors Photographed by Jasper White. A couple weeks ago when Feature Shoot blogged about Peter Lippmann's Paradise Parking his web traffic went through the roof, so here's hoping the same happens for both Oli and Jasper!  (Now we just need to get the rest of our fab photogs on there...)

Personal Work: Gary Burchell

Some lovely recent images from a series called "Time to Connect". Gary shot these on a cloudy day with just a few lights.

Jasper White in British Journal of Photography

Jasper's personal project Bird Cages traces "the rooms within rooms of pet birds in Barcelona". The series has been featured in the Projects section of the March 2012 issue of the British Journal of Photography. Look for it on the racks Wednesday the 7th!

Peter Lippmann's Paradise Parking

Peter's series is taking the blogging world by storm following a review published by FeatureShoot: Abandoned Cars Overtaken by Nature. We've heard from Peter that his website has received thousands of hits over the past few days!

Yummy Bubbly

Next time you're waiting for the bus you may see Beate Sonnenberg's latest commission and wish you could have a nibble.

Elise Dumontet's Moving Images

Elise has teamed up with director Rowland Jobson to create three new pieces of work on film: "The Drop", "Aniko" and "Memoires". Each film was inspired by a different 1970's retro image and has its own colour grade done by Matt Turner at Rushes. Read a great review of the works in Creative Review's Feed.



View all three of the films in Elise's film portfolio.

Stuart Hall in Black and White Spider Awards

Our Stuart Hall has received Honorable Mention in the Black and White Spider Awards for his Quicksand image!

See the rest of the winners here: Black & White Spider Awards

Personal Work: Beate Sonnenberg

Fantastic new images from Beate Sonnenberg:

Making of Sunbrella with Tim MacPherson

Sunbrella has posted a fun behind-the-scenes video of Tim MacPherson's shoots:



See some of the finished print ads here: Live Free Style

Oli Kellett: vintage SodaStream

We are loving the hairdos in Oli's latest shots for SodaStream!

Oli Kellett in Professional Photographer

Oli Kellett has been contributing insider tips with his good friend Matt Henry to Professional Photographer magazine. In this month's issue Oli gives some insights into getting an agent. Awww... Oli, we're glad to be in a "long-term relationship" with you too!

LoveMusicLoveFood Valentine's Dinner

The Sanctum Soho in London is hosting a delectable evening of dinner and drinks on Valentine's Day alongside an exhibition of images from LoveMusicLoveFood by Patrice de Villiers with 20% of proceeds going to Teenage Cancer Trust.  Spread a little rock & roll love and enjoy a menu featuring dishes from LoveMusicLoveFood  – The Rock Star Cookbook!

Oli Kellett: Frozen on the shore

Just before Christmas Oli Kellett shot a group of 30 models running through the sand for The Sun. With a crew of 50+ this was no small production and the freezing temperatures weren't ideal.

As Oli reports:

"West Wittering beach was -4 C at 6:30 am when the sun came up.  By noon it was only one degree above freezing. Still, you wouldn't know how cold it was by looking at the final image!"

How did they...?

Some behind the scenes action from last week's shoots...

No, it's not an Arts & Crafts meeting - but the very talented Parisian stop motion animators TwoLeftHands using strings of Swarovski crystals to make a moveable bejewelled sea - for Credit Suisse with Peter Lippmann.

Beate Sonnenberg and her assistant trying to figure out the best angle on the packs for her first ever TV ident - for Tena through DLKW Lowe and involving a trip to Cape Town.

The moulds that eventually churned out the uncannily realistic models for Patrice de Villiers' shoot for Victoria Biscuits - genuinely almost fooling the experts at United Biscuits HQ!