PORTRAITURE & CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 2020

Arnaud Février became an independent photographer in 1993 and began working in Lisbon, Beirut and Riga.

He has been the official photographer of musician Jean Michel Jarre in his concerts from 1990 to 1997. Arnaud collaborated with the Imapress agency until 1997 with which he produced several reports on the Gaza Strip and Iraq highlighting the humanitarian disaster. He turned more and more towards portraiture and then joined the team of photographers at the MPA agency until 2004.

He has photographed many personalities from the cultural and political world and was the official photographer for many publishing houses. In parallel with these press assignments, he worked for many communication agencies to produce visual identity highlighting women and men who build today's society. Passionate about the industrial world, transport and energy, he has shared his experience with the communication services of large companies. His recent personal work questions Franco-American identity and culture, and one of his recent exibitions took place during Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2019.

Splitting his time between New York and Chicago, Brian Ach has been creating iconic images for over 15 years by blurring the line between editorial and commercial portraiture.

A people photographer at heart, his easy-going manner, generous personality and skill at quickly connecting with subjects allows him to create portraits of today’s most recognizable personalities, including Joanna Gaines, Sting, Saoirse Ronan, Robert Pattinson, Jay-Z, and many others.

Most recently, Brian has photographed a campaign for FedEx Small Business and multiple features for WORTH Magazine. Past clients include Rolling Stone, The New York Times, People Magazine, and TIME.

"A busy beginning of Autumn shooting personal and commissioned work. My first shoot for The Observer Magazine which resulted in the honour of getting the cover too. My short documentary 'Tommy The Portrait Of A Sculptor' has now picked up six laurels with the latest from the Oxford International Film Festival.

My portrait, 'Mick & Mavis', has been chosen as one of 100 images included in The National Portraits #HoldStill2020 exhibition, and I have a portrait, 'Susan Birch', selected as a finalist in this year's Association of Photographers Awards."

David Giesbrecht is a NYC-based celebrity and portrait photographer.

Though based in in New York City, he has worked on many projects along the East Coast of the United States for clients like Netflix, Sony and NBC Universal to name a few.

His work has been published in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Entertainment Weekly.

Hamish Brown is an award-winning photographer whose talent and style have secured him shoots worldwide for many of the top names in celebrity, music and sport.

His meticulous preparation, combined with his distinctive and creative use of lighting, has become as much a hallmark of his work – as has his ability to achieve the very best results through a relaxed yet professional style.

Happiest with a camera in hand, Hamish has shot a diverse range of celebrity talent from Jay-Z, Ricky Gervais and Nicole Kidman to Sir Elton John, Samuel L Jackson and Steve Coogan.
From the field of sport, he has worked with the likes of Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Harry Kane, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mo Farah – to name drop just a few.

Working with advertising agencies across the board, he has an extensive list of clients including Adidas, Amazon Prime Video, BT Sport, Empire, Experian, Gillette, Nike, Rolex, Lucozade, Visa and Wrangler.

Hamish also has two published photographic biographies: ‘Luis Figo – A Year in the Life’ and ‘Robbie Williams by Hamish Brown’ – both books mixing his engaging style of portraiture and lifestyle documentary.

He also has work in the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in London. See more of his work here.

What a year it has been for Lorentz Gullachsen - he continues to work on the award-winning Marsh & Parsons brand campaign. This year’s portraits were shot in January 2020 and scheduled to run over the year, but something happened and the campaign was put on hold; and then, as soon as lockdown stopped, Gullachsen shot a new series of mask-wearing subjects to be relevant to the new normal that London and the world now faces.

It became obvious that the hospitality sector was struggling, so prompting Gullachsen to conceive and produce a ‘Welcome Back’ video for Shakespeare’s England tourist body featuring David Bradley and a selection of Warwickshire attractions.

Another poster campaign was shot for Seven Stones client, St John & St Elizabeth Hospital, and Lorentz said: “I have always enjoyed working with the healthcare and charity sector, so this was a great opportunity to photograph real subjects for a great cause”.

Finally, Gullachsen was shortlisted for the AOP awards for a portrait of an Extinction Rebellion activist Rev Tim Hewes.

His main occupation as a child was to look out of the window for hours, to observe, to discover photo and art books to immerse himself in his creative and narrative world - of course he did not know what all this was for!!!!

His name, Marco Aste, born in Basel, autodidact with Italian roots, grew up with the openness of the border triangle, approaches people without prejudice, still loves to observe all his life, to capture the faces, to tell the stories, to live their culture and love their environment, to present their projects in timeless modern clarity for his national and international clients in the advertising and editorial field.

Some of his latest works: Die Weltwoche, Gruner AG, DePuy Synthes, ZKB Zürcher Kantonal Bank and 50Plus editorial.

"Hello world, my name is Michael V Piroon and this is my creative journey in photography and cinematography. 

My specialty is automotive photography using unique RGB lighting techniques. I started with a new approach within the segment, and now expanding to portraits and product photography. These are the things that get me up every morning. I'm looking for like-minded brands and people to create moments beyond reality with.

Mercedes AMG has recently been in touch and now using my work for their social media pages, it is something I'm very proud of. It's a great start and I'm looking forward to growing my work / passion and becoming a better artist daily."

Mitchel Gray - over 100 covers; over 1000 editorial, ad, and web pages; two best-selling coffee table books, several NYC (and international) art gallery shows, and a bunch of videos.

His portrait subjects range from superstars to street people, from politicians to construction workers, and from soldiers to stunt performers and sword swallowers. Zendaya, Tom Brady, Robert Downey Jr., Senator Richard Blumenthal, P.Diddy, and Derek Jeter are among his subjects.

"Creating portraits is a great way to learn about the person in front of your camera – and a lot of fun."

Olivia Beasley's exquisite portraits are so stunning she enjoys collaborating with people – she says "The people I’m photographing and everyone that helps me, make reality look a little bit better".

Clients include: American Express, Bacardi, British Airways, BT, Clarks, Ernest Jones, Heals, Levi’s, MasterCard, Merchant Archive, Qatar Airways, Parker Pen Company, Remy Martin, Soma Magazine, Sony, The Times, The Telegraph, UBS/Tate Modern, Wallpaper* and WWD.

Olivia has many awards under her belt for illustration and photography, including D&AD, PDN, Creative Review, Campaign, Association of Photographers and American Photography.

See more of her work here.

PEROU, master photographer of people: sports stars, actors, musicians, politicians, models and less famous people too. Worldwide, for design companies, ad agencies, record companies, PR firms, magazines and more.

In the middle of a global pandemic, the best-selling book Perou had been working on for 21 years was released: ‘Marilyn Manson by Perou: 21 years in Hell’ published by Reel Art Press, and he is available for commissions.

See more of his work here.