cars & landscape photography Jun 2007

Alister Thorpe shoots studio and location work for a variety of advertising and editorial clients worldwide. His studio is in Clerkenwell, central London.

His recent work includes:

• Land Rover Discovery 08 brochure
• Range Rover Sport - direct mail
• Jaguar XKR - brochure
• F1 Racing - Ferrari / Williams / Renault
• Defender 07- extreme weather testing
• Dunlop
• Philips
• Smart - Chrysler
• Toyota
• 02

Diederik Kratz was born in 1962 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Since the 90's he has specialised in international automotive photography.

He just came back from Portugal where he was working on the new Mitsubishi Colt brochure and the new Mitsubishi Grandis brochure.

Other clients include Nissan, Mitsubishi, Renault, Toyota, Spyker cars...

Automobile and architecture, places and people, advertising and editorial... a world of pictures. For several years, Erik Chmil has been creating what he describes as 'a new picture language' for national and international agencies as well as automobile clients.

Since changing to high-resolution digital photography, for the past three years, Erik and his partner have managed the whole process of every one of his projects - starting with the shoot and creative retouching through to printable data.

Following jobs in the last month for clients that included Porsche, Suzuki, BMW, Caravanning Association, Erik is now working on his long-term project: people, landscape and series such as 'Where to Park'.

He works from Chile and Los Angeles among other places, and his work can be seen at LUMAS gallery.

A recent commission for JWT - Team Detroit for the Ford Edge gave Garry the opportunity to shoot some interesting personal images in Downtown Detroit, which can be seen here.

Other recent clients include:

• Ogilvy London - Ford Mondeo
• Ogilvy Dusseldorf - Ford S-Max
• Saatchi Germany - Iams
• AKQA London - Yell.com
• DDB London - Capital One

George Kavanagh's powerful seascape peppered with gravestones (shot by Alex Howe) recently advertised Ghosts by idiosyncratic film-maker Nick Broomfield with much poignancy - many people keenly moved by the horrific drowning of 23 illegal Chinese cockle-pickers at Morecombe Bay, UK in 2004.

Award-winning images of the longest-ever hoarding scaffold in Dubai is a fascinating, almost abstract, collection bursting with dynamic construction on the one hand; yet, on the other hand, George is commenting on the juxtaposition of advertising massive wealth and the exploitation of the worker.

Stepping into the surreal with Canon, George's stunning new campaign, through Tequila, harks back to Magritte, compelling us to explore a slightly dark and disconcerting world....

Ivo von Renner lives in Hamburg, Germany though he tells us that the world has become his 'extended home'.

He had hoped to become an actor, but went on to study art and graphic design and began shooting scenarios with people for magazines.

A few years later he was approached by an art director to shoot the Volkswagen Golf in the same manner as he had captured women for his personal series and, thus, people and cars became a big success.

From 1990, he began shooting in Italy, Austria and Switzerland and then the US, Czech Republic and Spain and now China.

Ivo has a way of always trying to see things from a different perspective. He is fascinated by people and the character they possess. He is an explorer by nature and thrives 'on the hunt', perceiving challenges as a reward not an obstacle. To say he has a hunger for life would be an understatement.

James Callaghan works worldwide on location and in the studio.

He specialises in cars but has an 'a la carte' portfolio of lifestyle, landscape and portraiture.

He prefers to orchestrate his work from beginning to end, from recce to retouching, and he recently completed all the photography and retouching for the new Bentley Brooklands.

He has worked for most major car manufacturers, and was recently chosen to shoot a set of six first-class stamps for the Royal Mail, based on the theme of classic Formula One cars. James was a racing mechanic in F1 and CanAm racing before becoming a photographer, so this assignment was perfect for him - he said he felt like had 'come full circle'.

James is known for always 'coming back with the goods' and bringing them in on budget.

John has over twenty three years professional experience as a freelance car photographer working around the world.

Editorial clients include: Formula One magazine, Business F1, Eurobusiness, Performance Ford, MaxPower, Autocar, 911 Porsche world, Auto Express, Classic American, Classic & Sportscar, Fastlane...

Agency clients include: Porsche UK, Mitsubishi UK, Renault UK, Honda UK.....

Promotional clients include: Simply Red, Chris Rea, Billy Ocean, David Knopfler,T'Pau, Joe Jackson, Roger Daltery, Berlin, The Tremeloes, Mud, John Otway, Peter Sarstead and Boy George to name a few.

John offers a broad range of photographic skills from complex studio to worldwide location shoots America, Asia and Europe. Fully experienced and equipped for all photographic formats and lighting and also creative digital technology, retouching and image manipulation.

Julian Calverley shoots on location.

Using Sinar high-end digital, he undertakes his own postproduction in a fully ICC colour-managed workflow.

In the last 12 months, he has worked in the the UK, Europe, the USA and South Africa.

For more information and work samples, please visit his website.

He is represented in the USA by Tim Mitchell +1 (781) 631-5235.

Latest news from Lorentz Gullachsen:

• 'Gullachsen shoots big CATS' - this project was not quite as scary as it sounds, as it consisted of a collection of photographs for Caterpillar shot in England, Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy.
• A healthcare client needed a rower with a rising sun behind him.
• He continues with his ongoing personal projects on the Cornish coast.

A very happy man, Gullachsen says 'I love this life, each day another problem, each day another solution.'

Recent studio and location shoots include:

• Studio shoots for Porsche 911 Turbo Cabrio
• Studio shoots for Porsche 911 Turbo
• Studio shoots for Porsche 911 GT3
• Studio shoots for Porsche Cayman S
• Greece for Mercedes A-Class
• Greece for Mercedes CL-Class
• Vienna for Mercedes CLS-Class
• Studio shoots for Bugati
• Frankfurt for Smart
• Studio shots for Mercedes R-CLASS
• Greece for Lanxess
  
  Rieker Studio is represented by Gecko Photographers.
  

After starting his career in New York, Mark Compton - now based in San Francisco - has specialised in location photography for over 10 years.

With a strong technical background and a great way with people, Mark's cross-disciplinary skills have him shooting cars, landscapes, people, and interiors for advertising, annual reports, and editorial clients.

Recent clients include: Acura, Buick, Adidas, Visa, Hewlett Packard, Hyperion, Thoratec Corporation, Men's Journal, Skiing and Outside's Go Magazine. They say they keep coming back for Mark's clean, graphic imagery and his well-run, efficient productions.

He is currently working on an image library of roads and landscapes - both for his own composites and as potential CGI background plates. He has plans for trips to the northern USA plains states of North and South Dakota and the often overlooked areas of northeastern California.

In 2004, Olaf Hauschulz's Mercedes CLS launch campaign was published nearly worldwide. It showed car photography in a very different and unique style. 

Since then, he has shot various advertising campaigns for clients and agencies all over the world. Olaf shoots each campaign in a unique and different way, maintaining his personal vision and style.

At the moment, he is shooting two campaigns in Los Angeles: Nissan Pathfinder and the launch campaign for the new Infiniti G Coupe.

Campaigns for Volkswagen and Audi will be published in Europe soon. 

His website has recently been re-launched.

Paris-based photographer Paul J. Harvey, has recently been working on projects for Volkswagen and Assystem in Paris, as well as for Channel 4 in London.

He is very flexible, described as easy-going, and likes to be involved whenever possible, from the location scouting to the final retouching of the image.

Clients include Nissan, Chrysler, Ford, Citroen, Renault, Lancia, Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi.

Although he has fully embraced digital photography, he still loves to shoot film with his panoramic format 6 x 17 camera. This format is his preferred choice for personal landscapes projects, the most recent of which has just been completed in California.

Recent work includes:

• Ferrari - a massive 35-car shoot in celebration of Ferrari's 60th anniversary - Italy
• Alfa Romeo - GT Blackline, advertising and PR campaigns - UK
• Honda F1 2007 car - UK
• Alfa Romeo Spider - official launch imagery - Morocco
• Lexus LFA - Texas
• Toyota FT-HS - Brussels
• Ferrari FXX - Maranello, Italy
• Worldwide exclusive shoot of the Ferrari 612 P4/5 by Pinifarina - Torino

Their website includes shoots ranging from automotive to David Beckham billboard campaigns.

Saddington & Baynes is widely recognised as one of the world's leading print post-production studios. Known for automotive retouching, the firm was a pioneer of digital retouching in the 90s.

As one of the very first to realise the creative potential of CGI for print, it has been instrumental in developing the new workflow and introducing it to the industry. It combines creative flair, technical skill and top-class experience in automotive retouching, and has developed a unique methodology that takes CGI into the advertising mainstream for print.

When asked to describe what is different about their approach, S&B say, 'Photographic technique is at the core of what we do. We can create high-quality images from any supplied 3D data, or use 3D modelling to generate "products" - be they cars, planes, bottles or pack shots - and then seamlessly place them into any background, whether it's a CG-generated studio or photographic location.'

The company's motto is: 'We understand the technology...so you don't have to'.

Please contact Chris Christodoulou.