australia Jul 2012

The Names Agency represents a premium selection of photographers, fashion and prop stylists, hair stylists and make-up artists, across the genres of advertising, fashion, portraiture, sport, swimwear, lingerie, beauty, kids, interior and product photography.

Based in Sydney, the company offers expertise and specialists across the spectrum of image creation, from photography, production and budget management to talent, location sourcing, design, travel and all pre and post-shoot services.

Reload Agency is a creative artist management and production agency, unique in that it has full production offices in both New Zealand and Australia.

With over 19 years of production experience, the company's team of skilled and versatile producers offer a comprehensive service throughout both countries and worldwide. The agency’s impressive and international talent roster means it is able to offer clients the very best creative expertise in every aspect of the industry, including photography, hair and make-up, styling and retouching.

Photographers include Daniel Smith, Stephen Langdon, Gavin O’Neill, John McDermott, Paul Empson, Todd Eyre, Hannah Richards, Katie Nolan, Jay Harrison, Barnaby Wilshier, Adam Flipp, Jason Ierace and Ross Laurence.

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, Wrangler Southeast Asia, Crown Macau Casino, Nokia worldwide, Heineken worldwide, Vanity Fair magazine and Vogue Australia and China.

Darren Capp studied fine art photography and has been shooting professionally since 1990. His art-based study guides his work with a depth of vision and sense of style across both his advertising and personal work.

Darren's commercial career has taken him across Australia and around the globe. He uses the combination and balance of available and artificial light, expanding on the visual clues within each location. The brief is merely the starting point for Darren to impart his knowledge and sense of fun over the course of the shoot.

His clients include, amongst others, Audi, BMW, Ford, GM, Mazda, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Renault, Subaru and VW.

Urs Buhlman is one of Australasia’s most highly regarded automotive photographers. Working out of both Australia and New Zealand, his award-winning, technically ambitious work is evidence of the experimental possibilities that are the ultimate of image making.

He has specialised in shooting automotive, landscape and location assignments for clients from Japan, India, the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Shooting primarily on location where he enjoys being pushed to his limits, Urs is engrossed in the challenge of unpredictable weather and lighting conditions. Later, in post, he adds his trademark grade of dramatic tones and high-detail refinement.  

Over the past three years, Urs has shot and created a large variety of landscape road environments with matching 360º HDRI domes specifically to be used with automotive CGI mesh models.

Urs is represented by International Rescue.

Andy Lewis is an accomplished food and beverage photographer whose work encompasses packaging, advertising and editorial briefs. 

Coming from Devon, England. Andy was educated in photography at the highly regarded Falmouth College of Arts, graduating with first class honours. Andy moved to London and began assisting some of England's finest food and advertising photographers, where his passion for photography and food came together. In 2008, Andy moved to Sydney and is now based out of his studio in Greenwich. 

Working closely with his clients, Andy methodically creates beautifully composed and unique results. His extensive photographic, lighting and retouching skills allow him to produce internationally recognised work.

Andy has worked with some of the largest national and international brands, including Woolworth's, Coles, Masterfoods, Strongbow, Wither Hills, Kingdom Breweries, Midori, Havana Club, Absolut Vodka, V Energy drinks, Cancer Council, Donna Hay, Women's Weekly, Gourmet Traveller, Delicious Magazine, Diabetic Living, BBC Good Food and Masterchef Magazine. 

Blue Fish's recent CGI work on the new Mazda CX-5 launch in Australia and New Zealand is a stunning example of how experienced automotive photographers have mastered the transition to CGI. Led by creative director/photographer Glenn Gibson and lead CGI artist Troy Witte, the company's recent work for Mazda and Nissan is winning growing acclaim for both its dynamics and authenticity.

Based in Australia but working internationally, the Blue Fish team has worked on most of Mazda's global product launches over the past 10 years in both Japan and Australia. If not mastering the complete CGI image production itself, the company is increasingly sought for shooting backplates and HDRI domes in Australia and New Zealand for northern hemisphere clients.

Keep an eye out for future work from this great creative team.

Steven Chee's career has spanned 15 years, crafting unique images for both advertising and editorial clients. His attention and consideration of light has taken him around the globe, in the last 12 months travelling to Positano, Switzerland, Beijing, Hawaii, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New Zealand.

Shooting for L'Oréal, Kerastase, Revlon and Cate Blanchett for SKII confirms his reputation as a beauty specialist.

His editorial clients include Harper's Bazaar, Oyster, Interview, Russh, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.

Damian Bennett began his photographic career over a decade ago in Sydney. Since then he has gained the knowledge and experience to develop a style of his own and produce work for some of Australia’s most reputable magazines.

Damian specialises in portraiture, fashion and beauty. His technical knowledge and the comfortable rapport he has with his subjects is evident in the quality of the images he produces as he captures a distinct emotion with a polished edge.

He works regularly for clients such as Instyle, Rolling Stone, The Sydney Magazine, Sunday Life, Grazia, Harper's Bazaar, Men’s Health and The Australian Women’s Weekly.

His list of portraits is rapidly growing and consists of some of Australia’s most acclaimed actors and sports personalities including Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Mark Webber and Harry Kewell.

Damian is represented by The Names Agency.

Based in Australia, automotive photographer Easton Chang prides himself on his complete involvement in the automotive photography workflow - from conception through to visualisation and the final digital image.

Providing highly dynamic images with a fresh and unique style, Easton is constantly developing and introducing further ideas and techniques through his work. He is 2012 Australian Advertising Photographer of the Year AIPP/APPA.

Nicole Corbett is an emerging fashion and beauty photographer with a fresh approach who is making a vibrant mark in the fashion industry. Her intuitive understanding of beauty and ability to portray personality and presence in an image has seen her work throughout Australia and, later this year, will take her to New York City. 

Nicole’s highly skilled technical ability combined with her unique creativity is showcased in print platforms locally and internationally. Editorial clients include Attitude, Culture, FASHIONTREND Australia, Frankie, Pulp and The Sunday Herald Sun Magazine, to name but a few.

Nicole’s advertising work can be seen nationally. Some of her clients include Harvey Norman, Lovisa Jewellery, The Whitehouse Institute of Design, Toi Et Moi and  Yeojin Bae.

The creative process is what Kristian Gehradte lives for. Nothing makes his heart go thump more than delivering imagery that his clients will love.

Kristian is constantly pushing the boundaries, creating striking images for his clients and the brands they work for. His style is instantly recognisable; with dramatic lighting and vibrant colour, he produces creative, fresh and super modern images.

Shooting in the commercial photography arena, he brings his unique style to projects ranging from advertising, architecture, portrait, editorial, product and corporate assignments.

Graham Jepson shoots engaging portraits of people in their environment as well as interiors. He is often commissioned to shoot a mixture of both styles for advertising, commercial and editorial clients looking for images to portray a product or lifestyle to best advantage. 

Graham is an accomplished photographer with 18 years experience. Recent clients include M&C Saatchi, Freedom Furniture, P&O Cruises, British RED magazine, Home Beautiful and The Sydney Magazine.

Based in Sydney, Graham is happy to travel, particularly to the Far East. He is currently experimenting with motion and interactive work for the iPad. 

Ted Grambeau is a world-renowned active lifestyle, surf and adventure photographer. Shooting advertising, fashion and action in some of the most remote regions on the planet for the last 30 years, Ted’s commercial clients range from Apple, Ripcurl, Redbull and Quiksilver to Billabong, BMW and Patagonia, to name but a few.

He has shot surfing images in some of the most unlikely areas, including Iceland, Russia, Mozambique and Madagascar. With a formal photographic background from RMIT in Melbourne and experience assisting legendary Magnum photographer Burt Glinn in New York, Ted’s style has a solid technical foundation combined with the influence of photojournalism, resulting in real pictures from real situations.

With experience from years photographing in surf in the impact zone, Ted now translates this knowledge to fashion, advertising and editorial in and around the water.

Eleven40 is Melbourne’s newest hire studio, gallery and events venue serving the photography, film and TV industry in Australia.

It's one of best studio environments in the country with a great range of equipment and facilities. It is certainly 'the' place to shoot if visiting Melbourne. Studio manager, Raylene O'Hare, can coordinate almost anything that interstate or overseas clients might require.

Eleven40 is also an awesome space for events and seminars!