Top 10: List by Jon

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Top 10 Nov 26

Happy Monday friends,
Here comes a shipload of inspiration, Enjoy.

Mr. J

Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. Studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design. Travelled with his camera at 22 and had a small show of his work at 23. His background as graphic designer has heavily influenced his imagery. His carefully composed images are clean and strong. He see beauty in utilitarian spaces and structures, loves good design and functionality. His meticulously crafted photographs range in scope from vast landscapes to intimate technical interiors. Space craft, cars, planes, boats and technology, epic set-ups and close-up still life. Strong, striking and inherently stylish, his work has an uncommonly clean graphic quality, resulting from Redgrove’s subtle experimentations with space and colour. His award winning images have been commissioned by advertising agencies and magazines throughout the world. He is represented by Walter Schupfer Management in the USA and Paris and Visual Artists in the UK and Europe, His advertising clients include IBM, VW, BMW, Audi, Toyota, Honda, Sony, Virgin, BA, T-Mobile, BAe, GE, Wink Creative, Swiss, and his editorial clients include GQ USA, GQ UK, Wired USA, Wired UK, Esquire, Wallpaper, New York Times, The Times,

He is currently working on a number of projects that will be exhibited next year. He lives and works in London and New York.

2. Dylan Don

Dylan Don is a portrait and fashion photographer based between London, Germany and LA.

3. Mathis Rekowski

Mathis Rekowski
Berlin | Germany
hello@mathis.tv

REPS
Agency Rush (worldwide)
info@agencyrush.com
+44 (0) 1273 675 122

2Agenten (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
mail@2agenten.com
+49 (0) 30 41 71 46 74

Create Agency (Netherlands)
office@createagency.nl
+31 (0) 40 78 77 126

4. Zach Gold

Zach Gold was one of the first artists in the world to successfully blend the subtle complexities of both camera and computer to produce photorealistic digital art. Shortly after he began shooting he was selected by the New York Art Directors Club as one of the top 100 artists in New York City under 35 years old. Articles about his groundbreaking work have been featured in China Vogue, Harpers Bazaar Art, Vogue.com, French Photo and many others. About a recent fashion film Zach directed Vogue had this to say "The movie could be the beginning of a whole new genre of entertainment; fashion cinema". Introducing him as "one of the leaders in creative image making," Peter Jennings presented Zach with the International Center of Photography's "Young Photographer of the Year". Other award recipients that evening included Helmut Newton and Robert Frank. Zach's work was then exhibited during New York's annual fashion shows, where he was named "one of the ten photographers changing photography."

Zach is founder and co-curator of PLAYGROUND, an independent collective that explores and celebrates the experiential relationship between fashion and art through exhibition, installation, and custom artwork collections. Playground launched at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York. Subsequent hosts of Playground included Colette in Paris, Selfridges in London, and the MOCA Museum in Los Angeles. Two copies of Playground 1 are in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Playground also recently curated an installation at the Museum of Art and Design in New York for their paper ball.

Zach has exhibited and spoken in the United States, Russia, France, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy , United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. A recent film for the designers A.F. Vandevorst recently was shown at the Pompidou Center in Paris and has been invited to the Rotterdam Film Festival where he was invited to speak on the subject of fashion films. Zach's films have been shown at New Holland in St Petersburg, Sao Paolo Short Film Festival and the New York Fashion Film Festival.

His distinguished style and innovative approaches towards photography and film making have attracted some of the biggest names in the creative industries. Among others, Zach has collaborated with, David Bowie, David Beckham, Iggy Pop, Iman, Lebron James, Steve Carrell and many others. Zach was personally asked by 50 Cent to shoot the cover of his album, The Massacre. Zach has shot campaigns and directed videos for: Issey Miyake, Nike, Mini Cooper, Iris Van Herpen, Intel, Motorola, Nom De Guerre, Converse, Puma, A.F. Vandevorst among many others.

5. Denise Nestor

Denise Nestor is an illustrator and artist originally from Mayo in the west of Ireland. Her works are very sensitive, personal and compelling and have a beautiful naturalness. Her portfolio is just like her illustrations simple but appealing. We enjoy the mix of faces, facial structures, animals and a mixture of all three things as a way to describe her characters. Denise has been living and working in Dublin for nearly ten years. She graduated in 2004 from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and has been working in Dublin ever since.