australia Oct 2014

Reload Agency is a creative artist agency with full service production offices in both New Zealand and Australia.

The agency offers its expertise across the fields of photography, full service production and line production management, hair, make-up, styling and retouching. With over 20 years' experience in the industry and an impressive, award-winning talent roster, Reload is able to offer clients the very best service in every aspect of a project. Committed to pushing creative boundaries, Reload Agency coordinates every step of the process.

Based in Sydney and specialising in food, still life and beverages,  Jon Bader has a reputation for delivering striking and engaging photography and motion with a high degree of technical expertise.

His regular clients include many global brands. Recently, Jon has been shooting for LG, Dominos, McDonald’s, McCafe and MLA. He also shot editorials for Selector Magazine as well as other personal projects.

Darren Capp studied fine art photography at college and has been shooting for over 20 years. His art-based study guides his work with perception and style across both his advertising and personal work.

Darren is one of the leading car photographers in Australia. Assignments have taken him across the globe, most recently working in Shanghai for Range Rover, Mitsubishi and local manufacturer BYD. Locally a campaigns for Ford EcoSport and Mercedes Benz has had plenty of media coverage. Darren’s passion is cars; capturing the magic-hour light glint off the sheet-metal, watching the light work its wonder into the background. The brief is merely the starting point for Darren to impart his knowledge, sense of fun and attention to detail over the course of the shoot.

His clients include Audi, BMW, BYD, Ford, GM, Mazda, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Range Rover, Renault, Subaru and VW amongst others.

Based in Sydney, Easton Chang has won the coveted award of Australian Advertising Photographer of the Year in both 2013 and 2012 with his portfolio of advertising car photography. In recent months alone, Easton's calendar has seen him shoot for Cadillac in Detroit, Mazda in New Zealand, Ford and Cadillac in Shanghai, Hugo Boss and Mercedes-Benz in Germany and Lexus, Audi, Hyundai and Porsche locally in Sydney, among many other commercial, PR and editorial projects across Australia.

Now with almost one million followers on Facebook, Easton’s work and style has become incredibly viral and prominent in the social media community.

Born in Japan, Isamu (or ‘Issey’ to his friends) immigrated to Australia in 1982. After studying photography at RMIT University he began his professional career in 1996.

Based in Melbourne, Issey is one of Australia’s most in-demand advertising photographers specialising in cars, still life and people. He has shot numerous national campaigns for clients including GM Holden, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan, BMW, Toyota, Jack Daniel’s, Lindeman's, Penfolds, Domaine Chandon, Crown Hotels, Harrolds, Vogue and GQ Australia.

Issey is represented by one of Australia’s leading creative management agencies Hart & Co and together can provide full in-house production services.

Chris’s eloquent visual style as a photographer and director comes from his years as an international fashion and advertising photographer. He is sold out on beautiful imagery as a key in creating a story and to bring this sensibility to every project.

“Being trained to tell a story in a single frame is a useful skill, I love adding movement, rhythm, and character to the tool set.”

Chris has shot in Prague, LA, Egypt, and Sydney, from the deserts of Mali to downtown New York and has exhibited work in New York, San Diego and Auckland.

Henryk has become a recognized fashion photographer; known for the dreamlike yet raw reality he creates and the beautiful glossiness that permeates his work. Henryk works around the world, such as New York, Dubai, China and Sydney. He’s up for the Fashion Photographer of the Year 2014 at Cannes International Festival of Fashion Photography and a finalist for Moscow's Fashion Photography Awards.

The Aussie native has been commissioned to shoot campaigns for Emporium Melbourne, L’Oreal, Cloudnine, Camilla, Inika Cosmetics, Triumph Lingerie, Lorna Jane, Westfield, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, MLC Centre, and Rebel Sport. He has also shot celebrity portraitures of Angus and Julia Stone, Vidal Sassoon, Michelle Bridges, Margaret Zhang and Mike Goldman. Henryk speaks three languages (English, Spanish and Polish) and currently spends his time between Sydney and New York.

Adrian Lander was born and educated in England where he trained in photography.

He followed his passion for travel and photography around the world, finally settling in Australia where he has spent the last 20 years. He is one of Australia's leading advertising photographers, and his work is known for its unique style and diversity. Adrian's images have been part of many successful (and award-winning) advertising campaigns, books and personal exhibitions. Adrian recently won the Louis Roederer 10th International wine writers’ awards 2014 for the Artistry of Wine Award.

His clients include Pepsi.Co, Schweppes, Lion, Carlton United Brewery, many Australian wineries, NAB and AGL and Origin to name a few.

Adrian has his own fully equipped studio in Melbourne with an in-house producer.

Al Richardson is a Sydney-based advertising photographer. His specialist areas include Portraiture, Food, Still-life and Lifestyle.

Al's passion for his work, strong aesthetic and lighting skills allow him to consistently exceed client expectations both in studio and on location. His considerable experience includes work for clients including Woolworths, Westfield, David Jones, ToysRUs, Bonds, Sheridan, Slazenger, Westpac and Citibank.

Publishing clients include Random House, Allen and Unwin and regular work for magazine titles including Vogue Australia, Taste.com Magazine, Delicious, Fresh and Sunday Life.

Noel McLaughlin’s work is led by a sympathetic use of light and subtle treatment of colour and tone, capturing softness in even the hardest of subjects. Derived from a love and knowledge of both traditional and digital photographic techniques, his work is both idealistic and visually captivating, while still managing to shoot across a wide spectrum of disciplines.

Noel has exhibited in a number of group and solo shows in both London and Sydney. Commercial clients include MasterCard, Nescafé, Nestlé and most recently SBS.

Born in Australia, Noel currently spends his time between Sydney and London.

Lou D’Angelo specializes in automotive and advertising photography. He was previously based in Milan and London but now calls Melbourne home.

Renowned for his cinematic approach to lighting and composition, Lou has attracted an impressive portfolio of global clients including Audi, Honda, BMW, Nissan, Holden, Mercedes Benz, VW, Mahindra and Blackmagic Design to name a few.

Follow D’Angelo on Instagram for all his latest commissioned and personal work.

He is represented in Australia by Coco Productions and in India by Nimax Films.

Tamara White is a digital illustrator and creative retoucher who resides in Sydney. Her company is Whitepoint.er Imaging.

Her illustrative style is photomontage/photorealism where she combines many different photos and then uses colour and digital painting techniques to blend them together into aesthetically pleasing illustrative stories. Whether you have an idea in mind, or you need help to visualise your concept, she will be able to help you create something beautiful and thought provoking. She is currently studying 3D (Maya) to advance her skills in image making.

Whitepoint.er Imaging also specialises in creative retouching and high end compositing for advertising and fashion.

"I specialise in composite retouching. I love condensing the creative and technical strength of the photographer's work with the visual conceptualisation of the production team. I take great pleasure in combining various elements to construct an image that would be almost impossible to capture in the camera alone.

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (Photomedia) from the University of New South Wales, experience in printing hundreds of colour prints at a pro lab in Pioneer Studios (now Sun Studios) and over 10 years working as a photographic retoucher for fashion, food, film and advertising clients. It's with this wealth of experience that I am able to draw on multiple areas of discipline to produce highly skilled and professional retouching work."

Digital Art  |  Design  |  Digital Creative | 15+ years experience, across Film, Advertising and Design.

"At Creation Theory, the belief is that we are currently at the beginning of a Second Renaissance, born of the ability of ideas to be communicated globally at the speed of thought, with the creative tools available to transfer those ideas directly from the mind to the page or the screen in their fullness, with absolute clarity, no matter how grandiose.

We want to help to see as many as possible of those little idea embryos come to full fruition. So, what's your idea?"

SO Productions offers an end-to-end solution for all production and post-production needs. With the ability to complete offline, online, visual effects and grading in-house, its team of innovative and artistic directors is able to work with clients to push their ideas to the next level.

The company creates commercials, branded content, Web series, animation, visual effects, music videos and documentaries.

"We create mesmerising and memorable content. We are masters of emotional manipulation, making the audience laugh, cry and spread the word about what they’ve just seen."

SO Productions's team of directors has recently worked with global brands such as Alfa Romeo, Cadbury, Jeep, Nike, Adidas, Samsung and Lacoste. The company has also teamed up with Australian heavy weights Madman Entertainment, Telstra, Coles, Holden and Medibank.

Multi International award-winning (Cannes, New York) director and photographer Sean Brandt has completed principle photography in his definitive film on French icon & former mentor, Guy Bourdin.

Sean also assisted famed French director Sarah Moon (5 Gold Lions), and then returned to his native Australia after spending fifteen years abroad working in various hotspots such as Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo and London. His recent work for GQ shooting superstar Pharrell Williams, super cars and super models for Numero can be found on his website.