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KO Productions
Photo & Film Production
London-based creative production agency KO Productions delivers professional content for leading brands and magazines. "From concept to output, we engage and immerse ourselves in the production process, covering all aspects of a shoot and offering clients a second-to-none creative service that is globally recognised."
Services offered include shoot production, account management, location scouting, model casting, venue hire, location permitting, travel and transfers, booking crew, art buying, lighting and digital, camera equipment, retouching, film editing, colour grading and music composition.
This season's campaigns include work for leading brands such as Jigsaw, Monsoon and Selfridges, as well as notable magazines including Hero, Vogue, Rollacoaster and long-term client GQ Style; GQ Style has included stunning advertorials including the likes of Fendi, Burberry, and Givenchy.
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Vue
Photo agents
Variety? The VUE photographers have it in spades.
They’re producing some fantastic work, some already published and some upcoming, including: moving images by Shamil Tanna, featuring a voguing dancer for Amazon and stills for PUMA; Alan Powdrill’s colourful Sky Vegas shoot and a project on country game shooting by Morgan Silk. VW Germany continues its series of humourous ads with Garry Simpson.
There are some delicious campaigns by Danielle Wood for the 'Great British Bake Off' and M&S, Malou Burger for Organic Trade Board and Co-Op, and Debby Lewis-Harrison for P&O. Dylan Collard produced more portraits for TFL and new ones for British Business Bank, and Kerry Harrison added to his reel, along with a campaign for Holiday Inn. David Sykes continues to explore new still life territory, looking at footwear and food.
For more variety, contact Vue.
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Mark Zawila
Still Life, Liquids and Food & Drink Photographers
Mark Zawila is a London-based photographer, retoucher and CGI artist specialising in still life, liquids, food and drink imagery and animation. His work seamlessly combines CGI and photography, which allows greater creative possibilities and flexibility.
Mark works from his own fully equipped London studio as well as taking on commissions on location and internationally. His style has been described as dynamic, exciting and clean, with great attention to detail.
Mark regularly works with well known brands and agencies, and has created imagery for clients including Jaguar, Elemis, Morrisons, Sony, Stella Artois, Chivas Regal, Johnnie Walker, Nutribullet, Kaged Muscle, Harrods, Delta Airlines and Hydralyte.
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Crew Scotland Ltd
Crew agents
Crew Scotland represents talented and experienced crew members, individually selected for their skills.
"We understand that skill, experience and work ethic is everything in this industry. We want to encourage and promote the great talent that Scotland holds as well as supporting our rising stars.
We provide a live online availability booking system for clients who can reach our crew and book based on rates, experience and availability. We can provide a whole team from photographer, director to make-up artist.
We have provided crew for Royal Bank of Scotland, ScotRail, Vogue, Scottish Government and many more."
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Sara Morris
Still Life and Food & Drink Photographers
Shooting from her studio in London N1, experienced still life, food and drink photographer Sara Morris has a fun, fresh and contemporary style.
Her portfolio boasts an extensive and varied selection of subjects ranging from elaborate model made structures to intricate jewellery and botanical patterns.
Sara is a master of capturing the beauty or quirkiness of the product she is photographing. She subtly adds her own twist to the image, should it be creating a modern classical look or something more playful in composition. Her creative use of lighting and colour produce images that stand out.
Her client list includes IKEA, Costa, Innocent, Tesco, Onken and KFC.
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Colin Campbell
Food & Drink and Still Life Photographers & Directors
Colin Campbell is a highly experienced London-based food and still life photographer - more recently he has stepped into the world of directing. His graphic style and attention to detail has created many mouth-watering images for a wide range of high end clients including Co Op, Tesco, KFC, Costa, HSBC and Nespresso.
His work has also been featured for 12 years in The Guardian Weekend magazine featuring amazing food from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Yotam Ottolenghi. He has also illustrated numerous books, including Peyton and Byrne and River Cottage.
Colin is equally at home shooting daylight on location as he is shooting from his fantastic fully equipped studio situated on the canal in Haggerston.
Colin is represented by Gill Turner.
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Michael Wharley
Portrait photographers
Michael Wharley is the 2018 BIPP Photographer of the Year and shoots advertising, portrait and editorial work for a broad span of entertainment industry clients, and beyond.
Based in Waterloo, Central London, he takes bold, atmospheric pictures that balance narrative with visual impact to make splash advertising films, TV, theatre or commercial campaigns, while his portraits effortlessly mix drama with a nuanced eye for lighting and colour.
Recent highlights include a campaign for Brontes rock musical 'Wasted', alongside a Game-of-Thrones-esque set for 'Knights of the Rose', and an 80s-themed shoot for 'Fame!'. The heady smell of petrol was in the air shooting a hip hop-inspired, motorbike-riding Toad for Metta's 'In the Willows'.
Able to switch effortlessly between styles to fulfil a brief, Michael's easygoing manner puts actors like Gemma Arterton and Jimmy Akingbola at ease immediately, while managing the shoot and each client's needs with creativity, flexibility, precision ND technical skill.
He is an AOP member and Fellow of the BIPP.
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Scott Grummett
Food & Drink photographers and Directors
Scott Grummett is a photographer and director who likes to make you hungry. He is best known for his burgers, but believes he along with his talented team can turn any food or drink into something to make your mouth water.
Scott’s bread & butter clients include Lurpak and Warburton’s though his work stretches from restaurants like Honest Burgers and Nando’s to supermarket’s such as Tesco. He also works regularly with drinks brands such as Grey Goose, Jim Beam, Bombay Sapphire and Glenfiddich, and loves nothing more than finding himself filming something beautiful in a distillery on Speyside.
Clients include Bacardi, Heinz, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Snickers, Deliveroo, Just Eat, KFC, WeightWatchers, Hawksmoor, John Lewis, Hellmann’s, The Balvenie, Byron Burger, ASDA, Dewar’s, Dominique Ansel Bakery, Diageo and Iceland.
Stills representation: TerriManduca.co.uk. Directing representation: FoodHall.london.
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Andrew Brookes
Corporate & industrial photographers
Andrew Brookes is not keen on writing about himself, so he will leave it to his clients that he has worked with this year:
"Andrew Brookes brings out the true beauty in technology and sees things other photographers can’t." Nikhil Patel, McLaren Digital Brand Manager.
"The care that Andrew took preparing for and setting up the night shoot enabled him to take a set of images that fulfilled the brief perfectly and were creatively stunning." Jonathan Mudd, Whistle Agency.
"Images look fantastic, great work." Darren Breen, Medicare.
"Working with Andrew has been a pleasure, his advice and experience has been invaluable and we now have the beginnings of a high quality portfolio of images." Paul Newbatt, Vision Engineering.
"It is amazing how Andrew can turn a room full of scientific kit into a thing of beauty and still focus on the essence of the science." Fiona Auty, NPL.
Follow Andrew on Facebook.
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Yoshitaka Kono
Music and Celebrity Photographers
Internationally published music and portrait photographer, Yoshitaka Kono, was born and raised in Japan and is now based in London.
Working closely with PR agencies and music labels, he helps artists and brands images that have been used across a number of magazines as well as the international press. Yoshi also regularly contributes fashion editorials and celebrity portraits to a range of publications.
His photography seeks out and captures a perfect combination of vibrancy and authenticity. Yoshi's main goal is to capture his subjects' personality and to let things unfold naturally in front of his camera.