moscow Jun 2009

Slava Filippov shoots portraiture, celebrity and advertising photography.

His latest projects were for magazines Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Tatler, Snob and Citizen K.

• Advertising clients include: Respublica, Dymov High Kitchen, Ikea, Albert & Shtein Furniture, Cimarron Worldwide, Next, Calle 13, Joghurt Traum, HP, Siemens, Reifeisen Bank, Canon, amongst others.
• Editorial clients include: GQ, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Placed Magazine, Jalouse, RANK Magazine, Esquire, amongst others.

Visit his website for more information.

A graduate of the University of the Arts, London, Olga Lavrenkova literally lives on a plane between Moscow and London.

After experimenting with a variety of genres, Olga finally majored in fashion photography and portraiture. Today, Olga is in great demand as one of the leading celebrity photographers in Russia. Numerous A-list international stars, from Donatella Versace and Tom Ford to Gwyneth Paltrow and Ruppert Everett, have all passed in front of her lens.

Her commercial campaigns include L'Oréal, Samsung, Bosco di Ciliegi, Globus Gourmet and L'Etoile. Editorial clients include Vogue, GQ, Harpers Bazaar, InStyle and Rolling Stone.

Olga also regularly works on her own personal projects for a number of charity organisations in Moscow and London, such as Podari Zhizn, Donors for Kids, and Kids on the Streets.

Aleksey Gorbunkov shoots with both slide and a digital cameras and has experience shooting in Italy, Holland, Turkey, Mongolia and Azerbaijan. His studio's team can organise a shoot from the intial creative idea through to post production. Enjoying strong connections with stylists, artists and set decorators, the company can visualise any type of shoot.

The photographer has recently been busy shooting advertising campaigns for clients including Swissair, Coca-Cola, Nivea, Nestle, Panasonic, Winston, Rexona, Visavi Bank, Sprandi, Ecco and others.

Anis photo consulting is the leading photographers' agency in Moscow. The company represents some of the most talented and renowned photographers and also provides photo production services in Russia and abroad. Services include casting, location scouting, equipment hire, make-up artists and hair stylists, transportation, set design, travel arrangements and post production.

Anis photo consulting collaborates with major Russian and international advertising agencies on an ongoing basis.

Clients: PepsiCo, Nike, Proctor & Gamble, L’Oréal, Wrigley, Mars, BAT, Renaissance Capital, Beeline, AmEx, Milky Way, Whiskas.

Editorial clients: Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Tatler, Vanity Fair.

DTV-MA Production House has been creating video, photo, and audio materials since 1998.

The company has two core business areas: production and post production. Over the last eight years, it has completed an average of 55 production projects and approximately 2000 post production projects per year.

In 2008, DTV-MA also created visual effects for several films, including 'The Inhabited Island', 'The 4 Seasons of Love', 'The M8 Road' and 'The Personal Attitude'. Between 2007 and 2008, the company made around 80% of the material for Sochi 2014 and 100% of the material for Kazan 2013.

Resources include a team of experienced production and post production producers as well as quick and powerful post production services, a computer graphics studio, three video editing and two sound design studios.

DTV-MA is a reliable, flexible and safe partner that possesses all the necessary resources - human and technical - to make any production a success.

Internationally renowned make-up artist, Andrey Loos, has won many creative competitions in Russia and abroad. His work is directed towards exclusive clients who share a strong appreciation for fashion. Andrey's work is at the cutting edge of style, yet he maintains a harmonious balance between contemporary fashion and avant-garde experimentalism.

Andrey works as an artistic director for clients across the beauty, fashion and advertising industries. He has collaborated with a variety of different publishing houses, leading Russian television channels and advertising agencies, including RUTV, NTV, Ren-TV, Muz-TV, MTV, Collezioni, Gala, SALON Interior, Avangard Agency and Absolut Pro, and has also worked with MAC and MOSMAKE.

He has collaborated with top designers and fashion houses, including VDP, Chistova Endourova, Natalia Valevskaya, Furland and Anna Direchina, as well as cinema and TV celebrities Tutsi, Yulia Kovalchuk, Lena Lenina, and many others.

Moscow and Tallinn-based stylist Philip Vlasov had been working in fashion magazine publishing for eight years. His CV boasts key positions at the Russian editions of Vogue, Elle and Citizen K. He has also collaborated with photographers Bettina Rheims, Kahn & Selesnick, Marcus Mâm, Erez Sabag, Biel Capllonch, Christoph Sillem, Kyoko Hamada and Youssef Nabil.

Since 2006, Philip has been collaborating on costume design with the AES+F art collective.

His commercial campaigns include Nestlé, Pernod Ricard Rouss, Braun, Beeline, Simple, Lebedyansky, World Class and Crocus Group. Recent editorial clients include international titles Fantastic Man and Black Book, as well as Russian editions of InStyle, Billboard and Hello Icons.

Edinorog Production is a rental company specialising in photographic, film and TV lighting and production services. The company is available to demanding photographers and cinematographers planning their assignments in Russia.

The inventory includes the largest rental stock of Profoto strobe lighting in Russia, as well as HMI and tungsten lighting from Arri, Kinoflo and Dedolignt and a wide range of grip equipment from Manfrotto and MSE. The company also supplies cameras, digital backs, computers and monitors for hi-end digital capture. Grip tracks and generators are also available.

Clients include Mario Testino, Rankin and Mario Sorrenti, amongst other top names.

Visit the website for a full equipment listing along with information about the company's two new Moscow studios, ideal for small and medium-sized productions.

Eleven is located in the historic downtown area of Moscow. Facilities include three modern studios measuring 130 m², 110 m² and 35 m² (including kitchen).

Eleven provides the perfect conditions for promotional photo sessions, photo and movie screenings, test and casting sessions. The studios are ideal for photo exhibitions, art projects, demonstrations, presentations, promotional and other business events.

All three studios benefit from large windows that provide natural daylight, but are also equipped with shades ensuring 100% blackout conditions. The facilities are located on the ground floor and have a separate loading entrance for any size of scenery or props. The ceilings are 4 m high, and all the studios are a neutral white.

• Special offer for Production Paradise members: 10% discount on studio rental.

The five-star Golden Apple Boutique Hotel is famous for its personalised service, distinctive atmosphere and exclusive design by Canadian architect, Raphael Shafir. It enjoys a central location in the heart of Moscow.

Golden Apple offers 92 guest rooms. Each of its seven guest floors matches a different colour of the rainbow. Rooms are luxuriously decorated with natural wood, marble and stone, and elegant furniture and fantastic lighting add to the feeling of comfort. A huge gold-coated apple in the lobby is a favourite place for picture sessions.                                       

The hotel provides excellent business and leisure facilities, including a business centre and health club.

Production Paradise members can expect:

• One- or two- steps upgrade (upon availability).
• Early check-in/late check-out (upon availability).
• Welcome drink and fruits.

The guiding principle behind Michaels' Italian and European cuisine reveals simple combinations of high-quality food. Under the culinary philosophy of Italian chef, Giacomo Colombu, the balance of tastes has supreme importance. He therefore chooses the best quality and freshest food.

The restaurant's open kitchen allows guests to sit and watch a live grocery show: all manner of fish, meat and poultry, as well as traditional pizzas, are baked in a genuine Italian birchwood stone oven.

The lianas decorating the lounge form an original centrepiece and help set a welcoming tone throughout the restaurant.