cars, transportation and landscape photography + motion Sep 2018

Established automotive photographer Alex Howe produces consistently top quality work across editorial, advertising, brochure and all brand communications.

Alex has recently found himself setting fire to a stuntman for Lamborghini, grappling with a Bugatti Divo in Hamburg for Top Gear and hanging out shooting at glamorous night spots like Preston bus depot.

He's also recently produced some fine campaign commissions for clients such as Toyota, BMW, Honda and Jaguar. His love for the job keeps him inspired to continually evolve and develop his style using the best modern techniques.

Anke Luckmann was selected to shoot the Lexus NX for the Canadian market. “Our goal was to position Lexus Canada as sophisticated, modern, confident, bold and youthful," said Canadian agency, DentsuBos. "Our job on brand was to build positive appeal for Lexus."

The theme of the shoot was 'Reflections'; on a dream-like coastal road, against a dynamic urban backdrop, or contemplatively in a birchwood forest. Harvest handled post-production.

For Renault Italy, Anke photographed the Kadjar on a mountain near Milan along with Italian rugby players Andrea Lovotti, Carlo Canna and Edoardo Padovani in the studio. "Somehow, they didn't want to climb the mountain, although it would have been a good workout for the guys!"

The agency was Publicis Milano with art director Dario Citriniti and Stefano Gruarin handling art buying. Grooming was in the hands of Vessy Vess, with production by SFERA – Milan and producer Miky Vilardo. Post-production was by M. Rossino.

Make sure you visit her brand new relaunched website.

Anton Watts' latest project for Mercedes - AMG features the GLC 63 S. The location for the shoot in the Bloomfield Hills area of Detroit was a mid-century modern house designed by internationally renowned modernist architect, Glen Paulsen.

The film featured in this Spotlight is the launch campaign for the Acura NSX commissioned by Mullen. Introducing the new colour, thermal orange pearl, the first part of the film was shot and treated to look as if produced on a thermal camera, before the reveal to the actual launch colour.

Other projects include BMW 3, 4 and 5 Series, Ford Mustang, Hyundai Nexo and Veloster, and Subaru. 

Follow Anton on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Anton is represented in London by Catherine Collins.

Arnaud Taquet is an automotive commercial photographer and test driver. A true petrolhead, when he's not daydreaming he's either driving or shooting cars for productions throughout Europe and around the world.

Clients include Renault, Mercedes-Benz, McLaren, Honda, Smart, Lexus, Audi, SEAT, BMW-ALPINA, Pagani, TeamOne LosAngeles, Publicis (Prodigious), CREAM and WeAreSocial.

Bartek Banaszak is a Berlin and Warsaw-based professional photographer.

He simply focuses on making good pictures.

Bartek specialises in transportation, logistics and high-quality photography for corporate clients such as Deutsche Bahn AG, Alstom, Siemens, Unilever, T-Mobile, Procter&Gamble, Glaxo Smithkline and Astra Zeneca to name a few.

He also photographs people and never gives up until he reaches the perfect frame.

Some of his recent clients include: Deutsche Bahn, Arriva, PKP Intercity, Alstom, Stadler, Siemens, Bombardier, Newag, Tracktec, Vossloh.

Born and raised in Southern California, Brian Konoske grew up with a love of the outdoors. It's that love of nature and the world around him that informs the authentic feel of his photography, and his dedication to creating real moments that are never overly manufactured is a hallmark of his pictures.

From an adventurous and spontaneous approach to life to an inspired palette for his imagery, Brian looks to the natural world for everything he creates, as well as a global world-view shaped by travelling from a very young age. From cars to candid human moments to a quiet landscape, Brian's ability to see beauty in real moments and in real time is a source of constant inspiration for crafting a look of distinction.

In addition to focusing on capturing a moment, Brian enjoys creating a fun vibe on set so people feel free to enjoy themselves; thus making the work feel warm, approachable, and fresh.

Clients include Toyota, Acura, Subaru, Chevrolet, Honda, Chrysler, VW, Vans, the California Avocado Commission, K2 Sports, Salomon, Imperial Barber Products and RESQ CO. His editorial work has been seen in Metro Dot Pop, Racer, Zoom Zoom, Automobile, and Indy Car magazines.

Chris Sisarich's approach to film and stills is the same. Creating a relaxed and fun environment, he captures beautiful little moments and the same genuine emotions across both media.

Recent work includes photography for Tourism New Zealand, Singapore Airlines and Zespri, photography and an online TVC for InterContinental Hotels Asia, and photography and TVCs for Uber Australia.

"I love my work. I love the variety, the fact that every day is different. That I get to work with so many different and amazing people, that it takes me to far-flung corners of the world. That I get to work on projects that are visually rich, emotive, striking, fashion forward, or just plain sexy. What a job!"

Chris is on Instagram and Facebook.

Clément Dague is a Paris-based car photographer who's eye for detail is only surpassed by his passion for his four-wheeled subjects. He is very comfortable both in a studio setting as well as in the real world, and always knows which approach best suits the shoot.

Be it vintage 'analogue' models or modern 'digital' machines, Clément approaches the job unbiased and focuses on bringing out the best in each vehicle. With an excellent sense of composition inherited from 15 years of experience as a graphic designer, his photos are an invitation to drive and travel.

Clément works domestically as well as internationally and is available wherever the destination takes him.

Constantin Stein is a photographer from Düsseldorf who has always had a love for moving things. This, combined with his honed technical skills, aspiration for aesthetics and the will to always refine his style, led him to shooting for the automotive industry.

Constantin’s trademark is identifying a vehicle’s essence through his lens, and sharply bringing it to life - usually in contrast with its background in a natural, yet bold way.

Besides his automotive work, Constantin also has experience working with a more diverse type of clientele such as Comau (FCA Group), Foodora, Panasonic, and Dr. Hauschka.

Constantin works both domestically and internationally and is open to working with select clients for upcoming projects.

Shooting the Porsche GT-3 in Australia and New Zealand was a great way for Darren and his team to move into the middle part of the year. The awesome acceleration was evident when shooting on the track - from any angle, the machine looks monstrously fast.

Darren then took a road trip up the coast of Western Australia for Toyota Kluger. The length, isolation and ruggedness of WA is quite astounding, while the beauty of the coast is truly stunning. Finding locations to fit the adventurous nature of the Kluger was difficult - not because of scarcity, but through sheer volume of choice.

Once back in the city, the team's next assignment completed was an accessories brochure for the newly revised Nissan Qashqai.

Established and experienced advertising photographer, Diederik van Heyningen, made New Zealand his very own real world photographic paradise some 20 years ago. His permanent full time crew at his South Island studio consists of a full time retoucher of 15 years experience and a full time assistant, complimented by an extensive network of producers, make-up artists, stylists, and location scouts.

During his extensive travels, Diederik has amassed some of the world's most enviable, stunning and unique location access and GPS data to enable him to service his clients. Advertising campaigns, HDRI environments and 360˚ Domes for the CGI, advertising, and automotive industries created in New Zealand’s finest landscapes are his speciality.

Based between Sydney and Los Angeles, Australian Advertising Photographer of the Year, Easton Chang, has been busy in the last 12 months focusing on lifestyle, CGI and advertising photography.

Work included Tesla Motors and the Model X and Model S, the 2018 Toyota HiLux brochure, a new ad for Toyota USA on the 2018 Camry, the unveiling of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series 8 in Australia, as well as the launch of the MG3 for MG Motors Australia. Other secret projects, too early to showcase here, have also kept Easton and his production team busy capturing both motion, stills as well as CGI imagery.

Easton has also been busy making films for his clients, including the RS3 Sedan and RS3 LMS video trailer for Audi, as well as footage as part of the MG3 launch for MG Motors Australia.

Check out Easton's showreel for more.

Born and raised in southern Bavaria, and now based in Munich, Florian Jaeger fell in love with mountains, snow and nature at a young age. He uncovered his passion for photography to be able to share this love and special point of view with others.

Always looking around every corner to find new impressions and inspirations for his work, Florian is currently concentrating a little more on car photography. However, people, lifestyle, sports and landscape are always not far behind!

Frederic Courbet is a lifestyle and advertising photographer with a natural and precise style along with strong production skills that have gained him a solid reputation with clients worldwide.

Shooting campaigns for Tasmania Tourism Board, Purplebricks and UBERpool, his recent work involved outdoor projects while creating online campaigns with video content for social media.

Whether shooting on location or in-studio, Frederic has a “can-do” attitude that brings the best of the team to achieve his clients' expectations.

Located between Sydney and London, Frederic travels to locations at clients' request.

Jeff Ludes has been staying busy with a wide variety of projects. First on the list was one of his longest-running clients, Nissan. The images featured in this Spotlight were produced with a CGI rendered vehicle, which required plenty of planning to get such dramatic lighting in the scene without having the car available.

Next up was a short trip to Santa Barbara wine country for Lincoln and the beautiful MKC. Jeff’s biggest project to-date this year was a 19-day production for Chevrolet, shooting a variety of cars and SUVs across California. Here’s just a peek, with more images soon to be released.

After all that, Jeff took some time off, producing a series of personal work shot on the streets of Tokyo.

Joe Hoelzl is an Austrian commercial photographer based in Munich. His core competence lies in transportation, people and landscape photography.

Joe's creativity is focused on achieving essential results and outstanding outcomes for his clients. His portfolio contains some of the largest names in the business, including BMW, VW, Mercedes, Skoda, MAN, Porsche and Bugatti.

Featured in this Spotlight is recent work for Volkswagen 'Spice Up', MAN Trucks, a campaign for a construction company, and a personal CGI project produced in Beijing.

Joe is represented by Dagmar Staudenmaier.

Justin Leighton is a UK-based photographer with a background in photojournalism and a passion for all things automotive. He shoots and films beautiful cars for a wealth of prestigious clients in breath-taking locations across the world.

The old gods, whose job it is to look after the weather on location shoots, have been very generous this last few months. From a breathtaking early dawn across the Pennines for the gorgeous new Mercedes G63, to an amazing sunset for the new Mercedes-AMG CLS 53, Justin has been out and about with some special cars.

He was back in Scotland with the wonderful Renault Alpine A110 and at the factory birth place of the G Wagen as well as in its natural habitat on Austria’s Schöckl mountain. Back at home, there was a memorable date with the latest Mercedes C Class Coupe/Salon/Cabriolet/Estate.

He shot the Rolls Royce Bespoke and ended the summer with a trio of colourful Smart cars in the Stuttgart studio - more of that to come.

Follow Justin's adventures on Instagram and twitter.

Kelly Serfoss’ work is defined by restraint and natural balance in composition and theme, a style translated across a broad range of genres for clients including Bentley Motors, Infiniti, Piaget, Lululemon, and Uber.  Frequently bridging the divide between high-cost, production-heavy campaigns, and quick-turn, social-only content, his work fills the timely market space by efficiently capturing on-brand imagery.

Kelly grew up in the mountain wonders of northwest Montana and now lives in Venice with his wife Kate, a rockstar entertainment attorney, and doodle Bruno. Fun fact: His travel goal is to visit 60 countries by age 40. Though he still has a few years to go, he has already visited 54 countries.

2018 has been a very busy year for Lisa Linke, having spent the last few months in Oregon, California and her homeland of Germany photographing a number of new projects.

Photographing two GMC projects in the mountains and coastal regions of Oregon has been one of this year's highlights for Lisa. She was able to capture the new GMC Sierra truck in different environments on- as well as off-road.

Lisa soon found herself back in California working on a very different project with a very different vehicle; the Lexus LC 500 luxury sports coupe.

Back in her home country Germany, she was one of the first to photograph the new Porsche GT3 RS in various locations outside of Stuttgart, including the unique opportunity to shoot at the Porsche Motorsports development facility.

Lisa is looking forward to several more exciting projects over the upcoming months, so stay tuned!

Lou D’Angelo is a specialist automotive and advertising photographer based in Australia. 

Renowned for his cinematic approach to lighting and composition, Lou has attracted an impressive portfolio of global clients including Audi, Honda, BMW, Nissan, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, VW, Mahindra, Tata 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, India by Nimax Films and 46 Pictures in the USA.

The past 18 months has been a busy period for Mark Bramley, shooting for many of the world’s leading car brands across Europe, the USA and Australasia, including a series of campaigns for the UK’s biggest car brand, Ford.

The relationship with Ford has continued with the latest campaign for the new Ford Focus, shot in London, which ties in with TVC. Mark shot the entire suite of assets, including all the OOH and online work as well as the pre-launch motion. The shoot was produced by the team at Miss Jones.

For more of Mark’s outstanding car imagery visit The Miss Jones Agency website.

Mickael Gomes is a Paris-based commercial photographer specialised in automotive, portrait and landscape photography.

He previously worked with automotive blogs and car dealers, and now travels around the world to create dark and contrasting pictures filled with great atmosphere.

As a car enthusiast, he has also been a test driver since 2016 for Wheels&Driver France.

Recent work includes photography for Alfa Romeo Italia, Volvo and Dream Cars Club.

Nate Hassler started off his summer with two very special Porsches. First, the overall winning car from this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hour endurance race; Nate shot Manthey Racing’s Porsche 911 GT3R in pit lane at the Nürburgring the morning following the race. With dirt, confetti, and empty bottles everywhere, not to mention lingering fog, the dirty “as raced” patina of the car was at home in this strangely serene setting.

Next up, Nate had a go with Manthey Racing’s specially modified Porsche 911 GT3 road car, dubbed the 911 GT3 MR. Headquartered at the Nürburgring and playing a major role in Porsche factory racing, Manthey Racing has done something truly impressive to make this amazing car just a little bit faster, cooler, more nutty.

Back Stateside, Nate checked one off the bucket list - Experience the Bonneville Salt Flats, with help from Mercedes-Benz' AMG C 63 S. Yes, it's fast.

Roe finds inspiration in the moment. Within the fraction of a second to capture a vehicle’s energy as it passes his camera in some remote landscape around the globe, or sculpting light across its body lines in his Detroit-based car studio.

Roe works diligently to craft his compositions. Collaborating with an agency’s creative team prior to a shoot to get every detail right, and working closely with “JK”, his executive producer, he creatively develops the project into images that keep clients coming back.

Roe is constantly looking…even when the team thinks the shot is complete, Roe is still searching for another option or angle to explore. His deep seeded Motor City work ethic never wants to stop!

Simon Puschmann is an award-winning commercial photographer and director who defies all categories. For 30 years, he has been creating his own brand of dramatic, unexpected imagery for a prestigious clientele.

Simon says there is no doubt he found photography and photography found him. He loves, laughs, works, lives, and breathes photography. Simon is photography, still or moving.

Simon Stock is an award-winning advertising photographer whose work takes him all over the world, photographing some of the most iconic brands. He is also an established commercials director and started his career with a short film called ‘El Apprentice’ which was shot in Chile and shown at the LA Short Film Festival.

He has directed commercials for the Discovery Channel, Mercedes, Toyota, Volvo, Wild Aid, Norfolk Southern Railway, ITV and most recently the 'Bleed for England’ spot for the Rugby World Cup.

Simon has a trophy cabinet of awards including: AOP Awards Winner Best Advertising commissioned Advertising 2015, Lürzers Archive 200 Best Advertising Photographers 2018/2019, D&AD, Art Directors Club of New York, IPA Awards Communication Arts, and One Eyeland Awards.

Commercial clients include Alfa Romeo, Audi, American Airlines, Bentley, BMW, BP, British Airways, Castrol, Deutsche Telekom, Discovery Channel, Disney, Dodge, Emirates Airlines, Fairy, Ford, HSBC, Hummer, Hyundai, ITV, Jaguar, Jeep, London Transport, Lucozade, Lufthansa, Mercedes, Microsoft, Milka, Nestlé, O2, Plusnet, P&O Cruises, Porsche, RBS, Range Rover, Renault, Toyota, Vauxhall, Volkswagen and Vodafone.

Based in Long Beach, home to some of the best underground bad boys and girls in the industry, Tim Sutton is currently exploring his boundaries and is content with putting himself out of his element.

Recent work has led him to lifestyle and landscape work for Pelican Products (still under embargo). Some of his favourite clients continue to call on him, with another recently completed TV spot for Sherwin Williams, and he is also working on a launch for a new tire for Nitto.

This life he loves takes him all over the planet, and this year has been no exception. Let him put you at ease and create your next upcoming campaign.

WE! Shoot It was founded by experienced photographer Thomas von Salomon and newcomer Michael Compensis. Over recent years, the pair have made themselves a name in contemporary transportation photography, working for international clients.

Featured in this Spotlight is latest work for MINI and the limited edition 'Delany' shot in an industrial location in Munich. The agency was Serviceplan, while post-production was handled by Posch Photomedia. As well as the campaingn, WE! Shoot It produced cinemagraphs for social media.

The Shanghai studio shoot of the all-new Volkswagen T-Roc for the Chinese market was commissioned by Dentsū.

And, after many years of monochrome cars, the duo finally get to show off some poppy colours in this Spotlight!

Photography is a passion with boundless enthusiasm for Joshua Williams, an automotive and commercial vehicle photographer who has a keen eye and innovative ideas that have taken the genre to unexplored and new heights.

He has been able to attract the cream of the automotive industry, with clients including Hyundai Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Scania, BMW, Mitsubishi, Ford, Ashok Leyland and Maruti Suzuki.

With over 20 years of experience in automotive photography, beginning with Nikon film cameras and now the very latest Phase One digital cameras, Joshua uses natural and artificial lighting and trying locations to bring a breath of fresh air to this genre of photography.

He continuously updates himself with the latest techniques and equipment. He now stands as one of the most talented and respected photographers and is in high demand for his work across India.