I'm very pleased to announce that my Alberta tar sands photos will be shown to yet another audience. This time, the exhibition is part of the Browse Foto-Festival in Berlin and will be shown between the 18th and 23rd June in Friedrichstrasse, Besselpark in Berlin Kreuzberg.
A small preview of the pictures on show is below - hope to see you there!
16 May 2012
Industrial climbing with Capital Safety
A little while ago we did a multi-purpose commercial shoot at the Capital Safety training facility in Greenfield near Manchester. What was required were some climbing skills to illustrate work and training scenarios for people working at height - be in on top of wind turbines, comms towers, masts or rooftops. Also, I was asked to produce a set of pictures showing the Capital gear in application. For those not familiar with the subject matter, Capital Safety are worldwide leaders in fall protection, height safety equipment, fall prevention and fall arrest systems.
The good folks at the Greenfield training site were a dream to work with: professional, easy-going and very accommodating to my arty-farty ideas of how to photograph industrial climbers. Together with my assistant, we made ourselves at home there for three days and produced a rounded set of pictures that reflect their superb capabilities and the site's potential - see my favourites here:
The good folks at the Greenfield training site were a dream to work with: professional, easy-going and very accommodating to my arty-farty ideas of how to photograph industrial climbers. Together with my assistant, we made ourselves at home there for three days and produced a rounded set of pictures that reflect their superb capabilities and the site's potential - see my favourites here:
14 May 2012
Oliver Samwer in the fast lane
Last week I had a very quick shoot. Oliver Samwer, CEO of the European Founders Fund lives in the fast lane. Together with his brothers Alexander and Marc, the Samwers established the European Founders Fund and are among Europe's most consistently successful entrepreneurs investing in internet start-up companies.
We communicated via SMS, he changed the location twice, and I finally met him at a West London hotel lobby as he was finishing a meeting with a business associate. He had arrived from the US that day and was already on his way back to the airport to fly to Turkey - oh, and there was another meeting somewhere along the way. It was a good call to arrive 15 minutes early, as he was already jumping into a taxi by the time we were supposed to meet.
The shoot lasted a whole five minutes - a few pictures inside the lobby, then a brisk walk out in front of the hotel, conveniently we stayed close to the taxi rank. I managed literally a 'few more' frames before he had enough, a quick handshake, I turned around and he was gone.
Today one of the portraits appeared across a whole page in the German Spiegel Magazine - some of the others you can also view in the slideshow below.
We communicated via SMS, he changed the location twice, and I finally met him at a West London hotel lobby as he was finishing a meeting with a business associate. He had arrived from the US that day and was already on his way back to the airport to fly to Turkey - oh, and there was another meeting somewhere along the way. It was a good call to arrive 15 minutes early, as he was already jumping into a taxi by the time we were supposed to meet.
The shoot lasted a whole five minutes - a few pictures inside the lobby, then a brisk walk out in front of the hotel, conveniently we stayed close to the taxi rank. I managed literally a 'few more' frames before he had enough, a quick handshake, I turned around and he was gone.
Today one of the portraits appeared across a whole page in the German Spiegel Magazine - some of the others you can also view in the slideshow below.
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