Lise Sarfati

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Lise Sarfati from FLY16x9 on Vimeo.

Sophomore - Cass Bird

I have seen a lot of videos by fashion photographers that have yet to be well shot, and to be honest rather shit. This video by Cass Bird is differnet though. It could be because its shot like a documentary as apposed to the fantasy themed video's that seem to be popular, anyway enjoy....

Sophomore Spring 2010 from SophomoreNYC on Vimeo.

Brian Duffy

Really good documentary on the life and work of Brian Duffy who was one of the "Terible Trio" alongside Bailey and Donovan. Duffy was massivly influential during the 60's and was one of the most famous photographers in the world, until in 1979 he burnt most of his negatives.

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THE MAN WHO SHOT THE SIXTIES from CHRIS DUFFY on Vimeo.

Jo Metson Scott

Some really nice portraits from Jo Metson Scott.

Images © Jo Metson Scott

Corinne Day

RIP Corrine Day the visionary who reinvented fashion photography and made Kate Moss a star. Her grungey, anti-fashion aesthetic lives on.

Stepen Shore shoots a look book for Urban Outfitters

Stepen Shore shoots a look book for Urban Outfitters

Marco Santucci

Today we had Marco Santucci come in to give a talk, Marco is the MD of Santucci and Co. a leading photographers agent, having started of by representing Elaine Constantine after they both left university, jumping into the deep end as Elaine's career took off. The main points that I found fromt the talk were:

- how he finds new photographers

• recommendations
• Work as an assistant for a photographer he knows
• un-solicted email/mail - getting 5-10 a day
• he also makes mental notes of emerging photographers work who he admires and follows their career.

©Jonathan Frantini

- The Eurostar campaign shot by Venetia Dearden, was shot using real customers as apposed to model/hyper reality that advertising is, it meant Venetia could shoot the campaign as an editorial/reportage project, I have never heard of an advertising campaign like this but I think it worked well, maybe this is the future.

©Venetia Dearden

- Sometimes insider knowledge can help gain contracts, having found a new photographer was needed for an Aerie campaign, they got together some Aerie clothes, sent the photogorapher to Cornwall with three models and showed the results to Aerie and gained the contract.

©Gemma Booth

- Don't be over confident, let the work talk for itself and every time you see a client take new work to show them.

© Gemma Booth

Mikko Ryhanen

Mikko Ryhanen

Giulio Rojer Ghirardi

Giulio Rojer Ghirardi

Sølve Sundsbø

Solve Sundsbo is a fashion photographer who seems to be in every magazine at the moment so being granted a talk with him was a great honor.  He spoke briefly about his time as Nick Knight's assistant but he made it obvious that this talk was going to be full of information that he had wished he had known before he made a move into the commercial world. 

firstly Solve mentioned that before his shoot he gets very nervous and he said that this is where he gets his energy from, I have heard photographers talking about creating this energy when on a shoot and it was interesting to see that even though he is one of the most sought after fashion photographers at the moment he still gets nervous. The main thing that Solve kept referring to on his talk was to break the rules he kept mentioning this throughout the talk perhaps this is why photographers like Rankin who is controversial and Guy Bourdin are so highly accredited. 

During Solve's talk I started to notice that a lot of the guest lecturers stating similar advice; firstly to create as much of the image inside the camera and not in photoshop for me this is good as my photoshop skills are not of the highest quality, but when Solve carried this on that he believes that the trend is actually moving away from this. I am glad for this trend as I have always found straight photography a lot more interesting than that which has been compiled on a computer. 

Another common talking point was to be shooting every week and referring to musicians and their need to keep practicing weekly. Also to take pictures that inspire you, don't just take pictures that you think you should be taking as they aren't going to have the same feel the same compassion as when you do have this interest and going back to the London trip with Adam and Oliver they mentioned that for them it was the researching that they found the interesting part and said that the actual photo taking was the boring part, this is why their photography is of such a high standard and this is why they are so passionate about what they do. But what Solve was talking about is that he takes an interest in not just taking photographs but in the designing of clothes hair, make up everything that goes into his shoots which again is probably why he is in such high demand.  

One of the points that Solve was talking about was branding when on an advertising shoot is important to know the company and how they want to be seen and how the previous adverts have portrayed. Each company will have a kind of style to their adverts whether it be stylish, sexy, fun etc that the company will want to be carried on throughout it's photographs.