The Pacey Production Company provides top line production services for photography and motion throughout New Zealand and Oceania.

2018 sees the PPC celebrating 10 years of successful (and highly enjoyable) campaign and content production. Collaborating with teams within New Zealand and worldwide to deliver the best creative result every time.

Favourite clients and photographers include projects for Vodafone, Coca Cola, Mars, Ford, BMW, Microsoft, Auckland Tourism, Fire & Emergency NZ, Thule, Pfizer and Mons Royale alongside such creative greats as Rankin, Art Streiber, John Huet, Benn Jae, Tim Barber, Todd Eyre and Marcel Pabst.
 
Check out the website for a showcase of New Zealand’s amazing location options and contact the PPC for your next job down under.

Graeme Murray loves creating; his whole career has been in the image industry. After training in professional photography, his early days saw him working at one of New Zealand’s top audio/visual production companies creating, developing and producing product launches for New Zealand’s largest corporations and using various types of multi-media from theatrical lighting, to video/slide projection and interactive graphics, to set design and the most fun, pyrotechnics!

Then the desire to be shooting led him to run his own successful photography business. Graeme now works with clients and agencies on projects that include portraiture, people, lifestyle and sport related to advertising. He takes all his knowledge and experience from previous work in the AV and TV industries into his photography, so dealing with any situation is effortless.

Graeme has a great rapport with clients and the production crew on jobs and goes beyond the norm to make sure the shoot meets and exceeds expectations. Clients include Red Bull, Adidas, Samsung, VW, John Deere, AIG, Bendon, Ozone, Atomic and Mac Pac Outdoor Clothing, among others.

Graeme can be found in the studio or shooting outdoors. He is an official Red Bull International Photographer.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Pacey Production Company has dipped into the archives to revisit some of the greatest hits from favourite shoots and locations throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific.

“Production in New Zealand is more of a joy than a job," Executive Producer, Briar Pacey, explains. "It isn't just the unparalleled locations, but also the professionalism of the crew and the affordability of diverse talent. The attitude is very much can-do.”

“Our thanks go out to all the wonderful clients and creatives we’ve collaborated with to make these epic shots happen – it has been an amazing 10 years and we’re already looking ahead to some exciting projects we’ve got in the pipeline. We can’t wait to help you create more magic.”

Visit the Pacey Production Company’s website to view latest photo and motion campaigns.

Although Scott McAulay has built a career photographing the famous, he’s just as interested in capturing the lives of ordinary human beings.

“I love working with everyday people in their own environments,” he says.

Scott was raised in Birkenhead, Auckland, where his father owned a pharmacy for more than 45 years. It was here that he discovered his interest in photography and people.

“My dad had a great rapport with his customers, and I pretty much grew up in that pharmacy, spending a lot of my afternoons helping out. My work today is about making everyday people look strong and a little heroic in whatever they do.”

Scott lives in New Zealand with his wife and son. His clients include Air New Zealand, Visa, TVNZ and Warner Bros.

Welcome to Showcase New Zealand, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, photo and film production and service companies, location scouts, photo post production companies, make-up artists, and casting agencies currently working out of New Zealand. 

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our New Zealand Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Porsche, Corona, Toyota, MTV, Adidas, Mitsubishi, Red Bull, Genesis Energy, Urbis Magazine, and Tourism New Zealand, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• On the Street - John Crawford photography exhibition.The exhibition features photographs of those surviving on the streets in Downtown Auckland, many of them homeless, and the plight they face often right under our noses. Until 15th October at Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.
• 17 Days of Rykenberg - exhibition of 17 photographs shot by John Rykenberg during the 1950s and 1960s, showing a range of subjects including bands playing in clubs, restaurant diners, people walking in the street and scenes at the passenger ship terminal. Until 15th October at Central City Library, Auckland.

Our cover image was shot by Mara Sommer. Mara is represented by The Collective Force. 

Graeme Murray loves creating - his whole career has been in the image industry. After training in professional photography, his early days saw him working at one of New Zealand’s top audio/visual production companies creating, developing and producing product launches using various types of multi-media - from theatrical lighting, to video/slide projection and interactive graphics, to set design and the most fun: pyrotechnics.

During that time he travelled around NZ, Australia and the Pacific. After a period working in television production, the desire to be shooting led him to run his own successful photography business.

Graeme now works with clients and agencies across portraiture, people, lifestyle and sport for advertising. His prior experience in AV and TV has been translated into his photography work, so dealing with any situation has become effortless. He has a great rapport with clients and production crews and goes beyond the norm to make sure a shoot exceeds expectations.

Clients include Red Bull, Adidas, Samsung, John Deere, AIG, Bendon, Ozone and Atomic, among others. He shoots both in the studio and outdoor on location.

Graeme is also an official Red Bull International Photographer.

The Collective Force is a boutique photographic and video production agency representing a select group of leading artists across Australia and New Zealand who regularly feature around Asia-Pacific.

With agent and director Jason Jones at the helm, the team's can-do ethos focuses on providing integrated services and visual content for print, digital, social and motion.

From quoting and casting to realising the most complex briefs, Jason and his team thrive on partnering with clients to come up with the most effective solutions. They expect no less of themselves, and clients can expect the results to be delivered on time and within budget.

What's more, they're great people to be around who find collaborating with clients the greatest reward.

Representing Charles Howells, Kieran Scott, Mara Sommer, Simeon Patience, Toaki Okano, Tobias Kraus and Tom Roberton.

Proof is a modern photographic agency representing and producing for world class advertising photographers based in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Proof philosophy is one of collaboration, inspiration and constant growth with an emphasis on creative, personal projects. The photographers share a set of values including industriousness, passion, openness and humour.

Recent clients and publications include Giant Cycles, DJI, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi, Kathmandu, Methven, Sony, Monocle, New Zealand Geographic and The New York Times.

Amanda Aitken is a fastidious photographer specialising in architecture and interiors, industrial and corporate. Starting in the industry at just 14 years old, Amanda spent eight years in photo labs before moving to a professional career as a photographer 15 years ago.

Amanda’s fine tuned eye for perfection is clear. Having worked as head photographer in London, she now operates from a studio in downtown Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

Amanda is dedicated to interpreting the brief, the light, the subject and the circumstances in the most effective way, while her passion for pushing creative boundaries persists in every single assignment.

Mark Carter is a New Zealand-based, internationally awarded photographer. His love of being in the outdoors is what New Zealand life is all about. Creating moments that capture true emotions from his subjects in a relaxed, down-to-earth manner is an extension of his personality, along with his ability to connect and collaborate with both talent and crew alike.

Mark's specialties include portraiture, lifestyle, landscape and underwater photography. His images are rich and immersive with a vibrant mood to them; capturing real moments that speak to the viewer. With a technical skill set to match his vision, this has seen him work throughout the Pacific region and beyond.

Clients include Zyrtec, Pfizer, Hyundai, Tru Green, Mountain Dew, Samsung and Air New Zealand, among others.

Mark's work was recently selected for Lüzers 'Top 200 Ad Photographers Worldwide 2018/2019' and has previously appeared in Communication Arts Photography annual. He has also received numerous international awards to add to his growing list of accolades. He is represented by IDC photographers.