east. europe & balkans Oct 2022

Butter ‘n Cream is a full creative agency with one mission: to spread the world!

"We are a high energy, colorful collision of strategy and emotion. Via endless imagination we design and produce visuals that make brands stand out."

From strategy and positioning, through to design, art direction, campaigns, content production, PR and web design development Butter ‘n Cream delivers aesthetically elevated connected experiences.

Working closely with clients to define, design and develop their brand identity, is vital for them.

“Getting to know our clients’ business, understanding their audiences and what truly matters to them, is how we drive incredible results helping them grow customer relationships.

Our areas of expertise encompass our consumers’ entire lifestyle, ranging from fashion, beauty, food & architecture to the broader luxury sectors."

Since it was founded in 2014, Pillowtree Productions has been recognised by industry leaders and art buyers alike for the quality of their work.

Pillowtree has become one of the most successful photo production and service companies in Croatia, working on projects for renowned clients and brands including Star Alliance, Finnair, Aurinkomatkat, Lexus, Alpina BMW, Sting Company, Nanushka, Drogerie Markt, Deutsche Telekom, Fruit of the Loom, Time Inc., Woman Magazine, Essentials Magazine, Blue Fire Inc., JD Sports, Blacks, Millets and more.

"We are continuously working on expanding our unique locations database aswell as following new production trends and technology inovation, while educating ourselves and our crew to give our clients the best possible value and quality production in Croatia."

With 20 years of experience in fashion, advertising, tv commercials and productions in Greece and abroad, Dark Room Productions offer their services and facilities to cover all of your needs.

"Our projects start and finish in the timely manner that has been established from the beginning of our cooperation. We believe in consistent effort and quality in each one of our projects making sure to fulfill all your requirements. Our team is consisted of experienced and innovative creatives and collaborators.

Our clients include Elle Germany, Madame Figaro Germany, Vogue Greece, Marie Claire Greece, InStyle Greece, Amica Italy, Mr. Porter, Numéro, Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar."

Motherland Productions is a full service creative production company based in Greece and Cyprus, offering all aspects, of state of the art still and moving image production as well as creative services in the region.

"With over 20 years experience within the photography and moving image industry worldwide, Motherland can cater to all of your production needs."

Richard is photographer based in Budapest, Hungary, specialising in automotive, lifestyle and still life photography.

Starting out as an advertising photographer focusing on still life, portrait and architecture, Richard found his new passion in automotive photography, where he can expand his knowledge of the craft to combine it with his urge of storytelling through people-centered lifestyle photography.

His latest projects include lifestyle photography for the new BMW MX5 and the M2 GT. He also recently worked with Suzuki on the studio shoot of the new Swace, and did an editorial series for the Mercedes-Benz CLA.

To see more, take a look at his Instagram or website.

International photographer and director Julie Renouf has made a cross-continental move from Australia and is now living and working in the Balkans.

With clients around the globe, Julie’s advertising work spans across countless food brands, interiors, hair care products, fitness and nutritional programmes, beverage brands, supermarkets, and tourism destinations. Clients range from multinational conglomerates to start-ups looking to establish a signature branding style.

Julie’s capacity to shoot both photography and film streamlines production and maintains style consistency across various media. On set she works closely with clients - she believes collaboration, a positive attitude, and a shared enthusiasm for evocative visuals is the most effective way to create beautiful, authentic stories worth sharing with the world.

When she is not photographing or filming, Julie is passionate about sustainability, growing organic veggies, and renovating old stone cottages. She is also learning the language of her new home country; her pronunciation at times keeping her language teacher in delighted laughter.

Ciprian Mihai is a commercial and editorial automotive photographer with more than 15 years' experience in shooting exclusively cars and talents in different markets around the world.

Renowned for the attention to detail of capturing and playing with shadows and lights, his current portfolio describes the passion for both, cars and photography, and his love for composition, mixing lighting techniques and retouching.

Ciprian is represented by Sophie Ong.

Bozena Garbinska is an award-winning food photographer based in Wroclaw (Poland).

She shoots food and drink. She can create her photos from scratch: from cooking, styling to photographing and editing. She also can offer product photography.

Yaroslav Danylchenko works as an individual photographer and runs an advertising food and product studio, providing photo and post production services for six years. Available for shootings worldwide and for inhouse photo and post production services in Kyiv, Ukraine.

"Our studio in Kyiv has successfully completed online shootings for clients from Great Britain, EU and USA. We have experience in this way of work and are ready to work with your projects.

During these hard times, our studio is still open and works. As we do product and food photography, we can:

• Shoot your products shipped to us by post (customs clearance may be included);
• Create mockups using your samples or references to replace real products for shooting;
• Use local products or food to create everything that we need;
• Develop food recipes using local food;
• Work with local stylists;
• Do post production of any level.

More information about our remote offers you can check on the website.

"First time I held a camera in my hands I was about 10 years old, a curious wild boy trying to take pictures of fishermen, women with flowers in their hair, the moon, the way of the ants, the contrast of my own shadow. Truly speaking I was trying to capture anything that seemed special or unusual to me. I think this is why I became a photographer, so that moments that I came to treasure would never leave me.

After many years of collaborating with many well known fashion photographers (i.e Cedric Buchet, Paolo Roversi, Ggreg Kadel, Inez and Vinoodh, Chris Craymer, Carter Smith) and having worked in many different places such as Miami, Mexico, Germany, Morocco, Cuba, Greece, I finally chose my luminous hometown Athens as my permanent base for fashion photography. So here I am, a passionate fashion photographer with further specialisation in advertising photography and portraits. For almost a decade now I have also been working as a resident photographer in the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, on behalf of the American School of Archaeology."

Lubo Sergeev is an award-winning photographer and digital artist with over 25 years of experience in advertising and commercial image production.

Pavel Hejný is an advertising photographer and art director who is based in Prague but works all over the world. During his advertising career he has won many awards, including Cannes Lions (five times), Golden Drum Grand Prix (twice), Andy Award, Clio Award, and, last but not least, Lucie Award for the best advertising photographer, which he received personally at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Many of his photographs can also be found in the Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide publications.

He has a large portfolio of well-established production companies that provide full service to his clients and work together to deliver the highest possible quality in his photographs. He is also able to work with local productions around the world or work remotely.