Recently we shot Hipster and Clothing campaigns for Bonds. We’re now using Six Wolves for all our production and they’ve been amazing – thanks Adam and Kristen! Their blog is great. Anyone considering a life in production should visit the site for a reality check. Production ain’t that glamorous!
Pania Rose was the female talent for the Clothing campaign. How can you not love her? Bonds and the Palace were thrilled with the result. Chris’s work matched the brief perfectly with the style harking back to projects he had undertaken with Bonds via Monster Children.
Harper’s BAZAAR recently commissioned Chris to shoot a scantily clad girl in the freezing Southern Highlands in a sweet little pastiche of his stills taken on Spike Jonze’s set three years ago. Mark Vassallo even had a fierce little Max hat commissioned for the shoot and a DIY gold crown. The incredible Cameron provided production support for which we all say thank you. The shots are really special. We hope you like them.
We think Chris saves all his snippets to send to us in one day. So the news blog is looking rather Chris-heavy. Monster Children is out so we think he had some down time and bombarded us because he could. Here is an interview he said we should watch if we were bored. We didn’t have time, but you can watch it if you want to see a screen filled with facial hair.
The interview was related to the Canon EOS comp publicity.
It’s gone up on pedestrian.tv so we guess we can blog it now. In case you have been living in a cave or ‘through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things’ aren’t (bit of WTWTA humour from someone who has read that book 100+ times to little awed ones) the movie comes out this week. Chris was one a a few on set photographers when Spike Jonze was out here shooting. The shots are pretty incredible. If you’re one of our favourite agencies a couple of them will be gracing your foyer soon. Here is one of the shots of Spike, and we have also included the Monster Children cover, which we believe is out now. It’s in the Wolkenstein house so assuming it’s available by now in newsagents also. Geoff McFetridge did the typography which was a brilliant fit in our humble opinions.
To read the whole interview and see more of the shots, click here.
In a gratuitously creative exercise, Kate Banazi has transformed some of Chris Searl’s back archive. Kate is a brilliant Jacky Winter artist who assisted the legendary Kate Gibb on her Dries Van Noten work in London. She’s really infused the shots with a completely different kind of energy. It’s almost like Chris’s sublime work has been given a Berocca. We’re really pleased to take credit for hooking these two up. The trend to combine creative forces like this has been a long time coming in Australia but we are hoping to see more of it and hopefully facilitate it for our guys.
Chris Searl is to be one of the five judges in this years Canon EOS Photo 5 awards.
The site explains the project best:
These five photography briefs are what EOS Photo5 is all about. Inside the official box each year are items which represent 5 seperate photographic briefs. The challenge is to answer the 5 briefs with the most creative and imaginative images you can think of. The past two years of EOS Photo5 have produced some amazing shots, and we are expecting even bigger things from the World of EOS community this year, check out the past winners here.
For 2009, we’ve made the briefs even more challenging to test your photography skills not just your creativity. Each brief has also been assigned a professional judge to provide tips along the way and choose the final ten shots before we open the competition up to a public vote to choose the winners. New to EOS Photo5 this year is the Open Brief* – Practically Black. This is the first time we have one brief which everyone can enter, even if you missed out on one of the limited edition EOS Photo5 boxes.
Chris shot Kit Willow Podgornik for Harper’s BAZAAR. You can check it out in the current issue. Or you could just get a subscription as he has half a dozen pages or more in the next one too.
Myer got the biggest shake up they’ve had since the Jethro Cave parade after-party incident. Vice have art directed Myer’s new look book and they chose Chris Searl to help them with their image overhaul.
Here’s a behind the scenes video that will impress any of you who haven’t ever been on the set of a boring old fashion shoot. They sound glamourous but they’re just bloody hard work. Lucky there are pretty girls and boys involved and some nice folk like the team at Vice.
Well it’s a proud day. Three of my artists have made it to the Creative Sydney Top 100 list. Andrew and Daniel from Collider, Annie, Jonathan and Shane were listed for Tru$t Fun! and Monster Children (Chris) also made the list. There were some really cool characters listed but here are some of the more householdy names who made the list: Margaret Pommeranz, Glue Society, Vince Frost, The Chaser, and Sass&Bide. The list is actually a really good indicator of what’s coming out of Sydney. You can see the whole list with links here.
