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Showcase Magazine
Piccallo
Food Photo Agencies and Full Production Services
One of London’s top food shoot production agencies, Piccallo is home to some of the best UK food photographers and videographers.
Creating aesthetically beautiful and commercially saleable food images, Piccallo’s photographers will help you build your clients’ brands.
"From small scale photography shoots right up to large studio productions and location shoots, we have the ideal photographer for you. Between them, our creative talent has worked on TV film advertising, marketing and advertising shoots, editorial, digital and publishing.
We like to work closely with our clients, creating a strong team. Together, we can be as creative and as efficient as possible, helping you save both time and money. Being as involved as possible in the planning stage as well as during the creative process helps to ensure that the photo shoot runs as smoothly and successfully as possible.
We understand food!"
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Showcase Magazine
Nick Sneath
Beauty & Fashion Directors
Nick Sneath is an award-winning beauty director with a love of colour, classic lighting and fun performances.
Nick's background started in graphic design. This developed into a fascination with moving image and special effects, which led to Nick working as a VFX artist and compositor. It wasn't long before Nick branched out into directing the projects that he was post-producing. Nick now works solely as a director utilising his post experience in the production and pre-visualisation processes.
Nick has also covered multiple other disciplines and technical areas of expertise along his journey, all aiding his ability to create premium beauty commercials. These specialities include high speed, motion control, underwater and tabletop.
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Showcase Magazine
Aguilar
Advertising photographers
Pedro Aguilar is a London-based advertising and fashion photographer with a keen interest in creative retouching and over 20 years of experience in the industry.
His passion for image-making has led him to collaborate with many international brands and advertising agencies, as a photographer as well as offering a full creative-postproduction service from his studio in west London.
Born in Linares, Spain, he studied Fine Art at Seville's University and Brighton's University (Fine Art MA). His professional career began in London with the creation of Diver&Aguilar in 2007 and as a solo artist since 2014.
Awards include GRAPHIS, c de c (Club de Creativos) and EPICA. His work has appeared twice in Lürzer's Archive Best 200 Advertising Photographers Worldwide and recent clients include Unilever, LOLA Mullen Lowe, W+K Amsterdam, Levi's, Nike, Wonderland and Schön! Magazine.
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Spotlight Magazine
Luke Jackson
London - Ibiza - Sydney
Luke Jackson: car production + locations since the 90s.
"We have been producing car shoots and finding locations since the mid-90s, working all around the world, for all manner of brands. Not just TVC and stills, but launches, PR stunts, as well as all sorts of facilitation."
- Full production
- Production services
- Location research, scouting, prep and management
- Experiences, events and PR
- Arm cars (Ultra and Ukrainian)
- Tracking vehicles
- Camera mounts, jibs and arms
- Drones
- Traffic management
- Police
- Stunts, pursuit, high speed, off road
- Vehicle hire and transport
In the UK and abroad - Luke Jackson is based in London, Ibiza and Sydney.
Trusted over the years by: Bentley, BMW, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lexus, Mercedes, Mini, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, Royal Enfield, Skoda, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Triumph, VW, Volvo.
Luke and his team have also worked on numerous driving shots within other shoots, like Layer Cake, PR events like the Ford Focus installation of 5m high interactive letters 'FOCUS' in various cities around Europe.
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Spotlight Magazine
Mustard
London
Mustard Post is a renowned creative retouching and cgi studio, dedicated to crafting advertising imagery with unrivalled production values. Led by founder and former photographer Tony Swinney, the studio brings together high-end post-production with the creativity of a photographer’s eye.
Mustard delivers stunning work in all product categories, alongside specialist expertise in automotive. A lifelong car enthusiast, Tony has spent years perfecting the way vehicles look in different lighting conditions. In short, no one makes metal look this good.
Mustard’s services include expert retouching and colour grading for photography, alongside photorealistic CGI creation and integration.
Expect a collaborative workflow, with one-to-one contact throughout every project. There are no account managers to deal with – you will always work directly with a creative expert.
Over 18 years Mustard Post has enjoyed repeat business from some of the world’s most prestigious brands. Like them, you can count on Mustard to deliver.
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Spotlight Magazine
Chris Howlett Photography
London
"It’s been a royal few months for us shooting for Town Talk, a prestigious cleaning company - with Royal warrant to prove it!
We’ve dripped, splattered and spilled all in the name of creative still life for UK cosmetics brand Rimmel.
We also provided some classical product packshot photography for our US and international clients.
We’d love to welcome you into the creative fold, so get in contact to book your next project."
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Spotlight Magazine
Sara Morris
London
London-based photographer and director Sara Morris shoots still life, food & drinks from her studio in London. An expert in her field, Sara has a solid client base of both advertising and editorial clients.
Sara works with a fabulous team of talented creative people including props stylists, food stylists, set builders, model makers and photographic assistants. From the simplest of briefs to full on large scale productions, Sara is equally at home shooting both.
Sara shoots from her own large studio that is situated beside the canal in Haggerston, London N1. This comes fully equipped with a kitchen and a separate client area.
You can follow Sara on Instagram or check out her website. Sara is represented by Clare Fletcher.
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Spotlight Magazine
Barry Makariou Photography + Film
London
Barry has over 25 years of experience in drinks and liquids photography, and more recently moving image. Barry has put all his knowledge to good use in recent film projects for global brands including Mountain Dew, Baileys and Milka.
Barry specialises in high speed filming with motion control and automation. He works closely with G6 Moco and MachineShop to deliver on highly creative briefs.
He also works with brands to deliver social media packages with a 360 approach to content creation.
Find out more on how Barry works on his Instagram, where he shares extensive behind the scenes footage. Barry has amassed a great following; his latest BTS for Baileys has reached 3M views.
Barry is represented by Agent at Large.
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Spotlight Magazine
Jonathan Knowles
London
Jonathan Knowles is an award-winning advertising photographer and filmmaker. He is an industry leader specialising in drinks, liquids, food and still life. Notable commissions include campaigns for globally recognised brands, such as Guinness, Heineken and Coca-Cola, as well as being the creator of the iconic O2 bubbles.
Jonathan recently created a central image for Guinness’ sponsorship of the Six Nations championship. Three hands are shown 'cheersing' their perfect pints of Guinness. Following this he captured key visuals for the launch of the latest addition to the Guinness range - Guinness Cold Brew Coffee Beer. The refreshing liquid is seen pouring into a glass; encapsulating that iconic surge in a sleek and dynamic setting.
This year Jonathan has been working on other projects for The Famous Grouse, Thatchers, Robinsons, Weetabix and a shoot that involved photographing 60 different beers over three weeks. Visit Jonathan’s website and follow his socials to keep up to date.
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Spotlight Magazine
John Bennett
London
John Bennett is a London-based photographer specialising in luxury products within jewellery, fashion and beauty still life. Current clients include high end jewellery clients such as De Beers, editorial car magazine The Road Rat, with whom he shoots rare vintage watches and the front cover, fashion brand Church’s shoes and beauty and perfume brands like Aesop.
He likes to shoot in an authentic style with natural daylight to bring out the beautiful facets of diamonds and to accentuate the graphic forms of objects.
Clients include De Beers, Church’s, Chanel, Harrods, Vogue, Harpers & Queen, The Face, GQ, Esquire, Tatler and Holland & Holland.
John is represented by JSR. See more of his work here and follow the agency on Instagram for the latest projects.