It’s my personal opinion, but Paris in Spring is unbeatable. Springtime in Paris is a show; and Parisian Hotels have always flaunted things just that little bit more- architecture, design, history, romance, gastronomy, mystery and service are all peaking, wrapped up into one brief experience. When Conde Nast Travellor recently published their, ‘The 20 Best …
METAPHORES PARIS – BIVOUAC 2023 CATALOGUE SHOOT December 2022 Metaphore Paris belongs to the Hermes textiles holding division. Bivouac is Metaphore’s latest fabric collection imagined by the Art Director, Emilie Paralitici. The stillnes and poetry of nature’s therapeutic solitude was the origin of Emilie Paralitici’s inspration; a fabric collection that infuses home life with the …
In January 2019, I shot the visuals of the new ‘Eurostar rouge’ a train service between London and Paris. The images were realised in Paris, at Gare du Nord. The brief was as following: The new lounge will be in a completely new location, a level above the mezzanine check-in area. We’ll be making the …
1 Agency. 1 Stylist. 1 Art director, 1 photographer, 3 Assistants, 3 removalists and 3 weeks to produce 186 pages for a new catalogue. The objective: renew a furniture suppliers corporate image, whilst demonstrating industry know how and market representation and personalisation. Vlaemynck (owned by Fermob, insert link) is Europes largest supplier of outdoor furniture …
1 month, 9 hotels, 10 restaurants and a photo library for each establishment. This is what I’ve been immersed for four month. Millésime Collection, is a small but talented French hotel group that have establishments all over France and abroad. This group was only recently founded, and its hotels and restraints are all new players …
Brittany is a beautiful region in the France’s west. I was excited to work with the Morbihan Tourism Committee for the creation a their strip of lifestyle images, for use in all media platforms. Brittany suffers from an image problem. It has a reputation for being wet and uninteresting. The Morbihan Tourism Committee didn’t just …
I was giving my website a spring clean, when colours and patterns lept out at me from a great commission that I’d almost forgotten. It was one of those free and easy briefs that required that we make a selection of fabrics and wallpapers to work together for Madame Figaro Magazine. The bonus was that …
Shooting a light filled summer looking cover for a magazine is harder than it sounds. The problem is, we have to shoot in April, winters end, when the light often still gloomy, for the magazine to be published the following months (Spring, Summer market different editions Worldwide). But the April’s light quality rarely lives up …
Architect, Christiano Benzoni has become the go to guy when companies want to relook their flagship stores on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris. In 2015 Christiano asked me to shoot two of his recently completed projects there, Levis and Marionnaud. The particularity of the Levis job was that it had to be shot empty and …
Karin Meyn is one of the world’s best interior stylists. She is the Creative Director of « Piet Boon », a design studio based in Netherlands that builds homes, hotels and other decorating products for some of the worlds best known brands. In 2015 I was asked to shoot her new book « Piet Boon …
