Photo Photography

Tag: Portraits

  • Michael Robert Williams

    Michael Robert Williams

    Photographer Michael Robert Williams grew up in the small town of Congleton, just south of Manchester in North West England. Some time later he moved to London armed with a camera, a photography degree, enough money to live on for a couple of months, and whatever would fit in the back of the car.

    Still based in London, today Michael is well known for his portraits of musicians, including Kasabian, La Roux, The Killers, Oasis, Ian Brown, Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, The Maccabees, and Portishead to name just a few, and other celebrities from the worlds of sport, film, and music.

    His portraits have featured in many publications around the world, including Filter, Clash, Uncut, Time, Die Zeit, 944, FMS, and NME. In addition to portraits for magazines Michael has produced artwork and promotional images for record labels and artist management, and commercial clients including adidas, Microsoft, Philips, JCPR, and American Rag Clothing.

  • Sebastian Magnani

    Sebastian Magnani

    Sebastian Magnani was born in Switzerland in 1985. His passion for photography began after working for five years (from 2006) as a graphic designer in an advertising agency. In 2011 he decided to become a professional photographer. He currently specialises in portraits, advertising, corporate, architecture and reportage. In 2013 he won the OneEyeLand photographer of the year award.

  • Jerry Avenaim

    Jerry Avenaim

    A native of Chicago, Jerry Avenaim got his start in photography as assistant to legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Upon venturing out on his own in 1985, his first assignment was a foreign edition Vogue cover of (then rising star) Cindy Crawford. Basing himself out of Milan, he began to work for Italian Vogue under the direction of Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani.

    With an already established fashion career, Avenaim moved to Los Angeles in 1992, where he is now based. Jerry began photographing celebrities and immediately fell in love with the genre. “I love actors and have such a great respect for the craft and it’s process.” Through the years, he has gained the trust of some of the most strong willed celebrities. In the last decade Avenaim’s resume of mega-watt stars reads like a who’s who of Hollywood.

    Throughout his career Jerry Avenaim’s photographs have been seen in almost every major magazine worldwide, including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Newsweek. With the characteristic variety of mood and tone so evident in his fashion work Jerry Avenaim’s celebrity photographs organically combine the sensitivity and vulnerability of his subjects with his ability to bring out their often uninhibited and gregarious personalities. Be it a portrait of the exquiset Halle Berry reminding the viewer Hollywood is still glororus or Dr. Phil with a full on grin for his first Newsweek cover. These photographs will always be remembered, as the future photographs remain to be made.

    As a catharsis, Jerry Avenaim is also deeply inspired by what he calls his “soul cleansing” personal works. These include his book projects such as Naked Truth and One Mile Radius. Taken from the foreword of Naked Truth: “It is in Jerry’s work that his personality and character emerge.

  • Tim Walker

    Tim Walker

    Tim Walker’s photographs have entranced the readers of Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style. After concentrating on photographic stills for fifteen years, Walker is now also making moving film.
    On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photographic assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of twenty five he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has continued to work to much acclaim ever since.
    The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include Walker’s photographs in their permanent collections.
    Walker staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum, London in 2008. This coincided with the publication of his book ‘PICTURES’ published by teNeues.
    In 2008 Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator’ from The British Fashion Council. In 2009 he received an Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography in New York. In 2012 Walker received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
    In 2010 Walker’s first short film, ‘The Lost Explorer’ was premiered at Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and went on to win best short film at the Chicago United Film Festival, 2011.
    2012 saw the opening of Walker’s ‘STORY TELLER’ photographic exhibition at Somerset House.
    Tim lives in London.

  • Kirsty Mitchell

    Kirsty Mitchell

    Kirsty Mitchell (1976) is a fine art photographer and fashion designer based in the UK. Following the tragic loss of her mother, Kirsty turned to photography to help deal with her grief and embarked on her now revered three year series entitled ‘Wonderland’, created in her mother’s memory – inspired by the fairy tales her mother read to her as a child. The international acclaim for her work led Kirsty to leave her fashion career in 2011 and pursue her future as a fine art photographer. Kirsty’s belief in beauty and fascination with folklore has become the root of her inspiration, with work that has led her to be described as a multi-faceted artist with talents and artistic direction that combine to produce beguiling, dream like images – which Kirsty calls ‘fantasy for real’.

  • Patrick Demarchelier

    Patrick Demarchelier

    The portraits, fashion and fine art images of photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer, born in 1943, he was raised in the small town of La Havre, near Paris. His love of photography began aged 17 when he was given his first camera by his stepfather and began to take pictures. Aged 20, he moved to Paris and began working for a photography lab, printing newspaper photographs. He has no formal qualifications, instead he claims he has learned from his mistakes.