Photographer; Luis Pena
Agency; Gale Partners
Client; GotMilk?
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Photographer; Luis Pena
Agency; Gale Partners
Client; GotMilk?
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Photographer; Tyler Gourley
Client; Lexus
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Agency; Droga5
Client; Harley Davidson
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Agency; Droga5
Client; Harley Davidson
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Photographer; Nicholas Alan Cope
Client; TheNorthFace
Agency; SidLee
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Photographer; James Minchin
Client; Netflix
Agency; MullenLowe
Client; Acura
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Jono Rotman’s Mongrelism examines the power unique to groups of men. By presenting a violent gang in a dignified manner, Rotman aims to reveal its similarities with “normal” groups of powerful men. How do men use the group to wield power and what draws them to join?
The Mongrel Mob of New Zealand is notorious for extreme violence, and they have long been regarded as the nation’s monsters. In layers of apparent contradictions, their icon is the British bulldog wearing a Nazi helmet, while their members are largely indigenous Maoris. The Mongrel Mob’s symbols arose as both a goading response to a history of colonial subjugation of Maori, and a proclamation of war against the (white) state.
‘Mongrelism’ offers a communion with this impenetrable fraternity. Monumental portraits illustrate Mob members’ assertion of membership and pride in their identity. Artefact studies and brutal first person narratives are drawn from the Mob corpus, mirroring the landscapes that bare the brooding environments where Mob members live. ‘Mongrelism’ examines how the gang brands itself to itself to uphold its hierarchy and history, and find core values usually lauded by society: perseverance, resilience, and loyalty.
The publication takes the form of a gang handbook. The order and grouping of images is the result of consultation with members and hews to their geographic, familial and hierarchical relationships. An unedited Mob voice dominates the written section.
Rotman’s images have become a part of Mob history and their visual mythology. Ongoing consultation and engagement has been integral.
Rotman is a fourth generation white New Zealander, his forebears were among the first to settle in the region that became the epicentre of the Mob genesis. The process of colonisation and the atomisation of indigenous communities can be argued to have resulted in the Mongrel Mob. In Mongrelism, as in the history of the nation, our narratives intertwine.
‘Mongrelism’ is the recipient of the Prix du Livre Images Vevey 2017/2018
Available from Here Press.
The Fantastical Feasts
Photographer: Claire Rosen
A series of whimsical photographs depicting live animals feasting around elaborate banquet tables and inspired by the classical painting, "The Last Supper".
Featuring creatures great and small from elephants to Honeybees and many in between whether winged, hoofed or under the sea.
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Photographer; Christopher Griffith
Client; Met Life
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Client; Laura Mercier
Life&Thyme, Planned Parenthood Exhibition and Fund Raiser
Photographer; Deepi Ahluwalia
Publication; Life&Thyme
Beneficiary; Planned Parenthood
The Fantastical Feasts
Photographer: Claire Rosen
A series of whimsical photographs depicting live animals feasting around elaborate banquet tables and inspired by the classical painting, "The Last Supper".
Featuring creatures great and small from elephants to Honeybees and many in between whether winged, hoofed or under the sea.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art; MANUSxMachina
Photography; Nicholas Alan Cope
Client; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photographer; Ron Haviv
Project; The Lost Rolls
The mission I was given by the amazing Photojournalist Ron Haviv was quite a unique one.
Something quite apart from retouching.
We needed to find an authentic place for these newly discovered images to live visually.
Lying somewhere between the damage from time, the elements, chemicals, x-rays and light-leaks, and a visually acceptable and printable photo.
The satisfaction of scanning what was sometimes an almost blank strip of film, taking it into the software to discover that there were 2 young teenagers flicking V signs at Ron, or The President of the USA was there on the screen, was immense.
It was Photographic Archeology.
Photogpraher; Jason Pietra
Client; Departures Magazine
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The New York Times; Serena Williams
Photographer: Christopher Griffith
Publication: The New York Times
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"Bright Idea" Details Magazine Editorial August 2015
Photographer: Christopher Griffith
Publication: Details
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"Scale Model" Details Magazine Editorial September 2014
Photographer: Christopher Griffith
Publication: Details
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The Fantastical Feasts
Photographer: Claire Rosen
A series of whimsical photographs depicting live animals feasting around elaborate banquet tables and inspired by the classical painting, "The Last Supper".
Featuring creatures great and small from elephants to Honeybees and many in between whether winged, hoofed or under the sea.
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Acura Full Range Catalogue 2014
Photographer : Christopher Griffith & Tyler Gourley
Client: Mullen
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Agency; Droga5
Client; Hennessy
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Diet Coke Worldwide Advertising Campaign 2013
Photographer: Zach Gold
Client: Droga5
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