S¿lve Sundsb¿
See the streets of London at very, very high speed through Sølve Sundsbø's thermal camera.
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Alice Hawkins
Alice Hawkins travelled to Las Vegas to document the action as housemate Ashley Revell gambled his entire assets on one spin of the roulette table. Out of the casino, and Alice took to the streets, demonstrating her keen eye for everyday burlesque with the SHOWstudio picture phone.
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Alice Hawkins/SHOWstudio
A collaboration for Jalouse magazine's 69th issue, photographer Alice Hawkins adopted the fantasy identities created for her by members of SHOWstudio in a series of strikingly different self-portraits.
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In May 2004, a complement of mystery guests were invited to participate
in this twenty-two-course meal, prepared by the gastronomic alchemist Heston Blumenthal and photographed by Nick Knight for a visually decadent W magazine shoot. Not only can you now listen in on the diners' conversations in the Audio Webcast, you can also see what's on their plates as they consume the challenging courses in the Interactive Menu. Coinciding with the magazine's publication, this broadcast finally revealed the secret identities of all celebrity diners present in a sequence of unseen pictures from the shoot. In a final flourish, Blumenthal generously offered the coveted recipe for his trademark Smoked Bacon and Egg icecream, available to you as a T-shirt or apron
design via the Recipe Download.
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Félix Larher
Did the bright, young things ever make it through Playland? Barbie Killer's celebrity cull took its toll in Félix Larher's heroic fantasy.
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Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones/UVA/Thierry Dreyfus
Live imagery projected onto models to create 'virtual' clothing and prints at Hamish Morrow's S/S '04 collection unveiling.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Collections] [Digital Image-Making] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
Mike Figgis, Nick Knight
Viewing film festivals as ‘highly suspect at the best of times’ Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate rouse to survive Cannes 2006. Acting as a (rather famous) ‘beach portraitist’, he set up a make-shift studio in his hotel bedroom and a gallery at the back of his host nightclub and spent the week photographing and exhibiting prints of the various directors, actresses, producers and writers attending the festival. In the gallery, filmed interview and essay below, Figgis shared with SHOWstudio his resultant images, his thoughts on the festival and the history of how photography has influenced his image career.
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Karni Arieli/Celia Topping
Photographer Arieli substituted skilled performing artists in place of models for this live fashion shoot featuring progressive knitwear design from the A/W '04 collections. She shot stills using the SHOWstudio picture phone as well as short motion-image clips of three different pairs of artists, referencing Eadweard Muybridge's chronographic sequences in their form.
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Félix Larher
Filmmaker Larher revealed a Claudia Schiffer you've never seen, who daydreams of flirting with her pals King Kong and The Pink Panther.
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Jason Evans
Snide. Patronising. Tortuous. Whenever Jason Evans turns on the telly, he's irritated by those 'annoying little bursts of eye candy'. So he came up with his own version.
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Jason Evans
Jason Evans recorded his unique, photographic perspective on the world in words and pictures during a yearlong residency as our Correspondent.
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Jo-Ann Furniss/Jonathan Kaye/Nick Knight
Witness the splendour of Paris Haute Couture week, via image/texts sent by mobile phone from the front row.
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Katy England
Trick or treat? The spooks and creeps came out in force for Artist Sam Taylor-Wood's Halloween Party. Stylist Katy England caught the macabre proceedings on camera.
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John Galliano
Enter the creative mindset of fashion revolutionary John Galliano by downloading and making-up this intricate vintage jacket pattern, drawn from his A/W 2001 Pirates collection.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Downloadable] [John Galliano] [Craig McDean]
Martin Margiela
Many took up Maison Martin Margiela's challenge to complete what he had left unfinished. Since late June 2004, SHOWstudio viewers across the world have been downloading his simple, shift-dress pattern and adding to it to express their individual vision. Once made up, the more creatively ambitious have interpreted their designs in fashion stories, surprising and varied. To showcase this two-way fashion dialogue, a selection of the best were posted in our Atelier Gallery.
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Yohji Yamamoto
To launch this new series of downloadable fashion, internationally acclaimed designer Yohji Yamamoto contributed an enigmatic pattern for viewers to download from their computers and make up into an exclusive, mystery garment, free of charge. Nick Knight's photographs of the piece held the visual key.
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Nick Knight/Camille Bidault-Waddington
Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever they want with her make-up, and then ask them to draw on Nick Knight's prints.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]
Fumiko Imano
How to wear it. When the most innovative fashions were beyond your grasp, only a film of you secretly trying them on in the top department stores and boutiques came close.
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Nick Knight
Linda Evangelista starred in her own moon age daydream as she performed SHOWstudio's new singing cover on accordion in Nick Knight's seductive short film, 'Eclipse'. Jeremy Healy remixed the soundtrack.
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Laura Sciacovelli
Summer dresses provided the inspiration for these sensual motion portraits with atmospheric soundtracks from experimental bands Plinth, Colleen and The Pastels.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Music] [Junya Watanabe] [Vivienne Westwood] [Hussein Chalayan] [Laura Sciacovelli]
Simon Foxton/Jason Evans
Imagery for live shoot that used old sporting photos for a new direction in menswear editorial.
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Brian Dowling
Ever wondered if it's worth unplugging all that electrical stuff at night? Not once you've seen what Brian Dowling found in his Mum's flat after her telly went up in flames.
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Maison Martin Margiela
As the acclaimed fashion house of Martin Margiela prepared to open its doors for the first time in London, photographer Valerie Von Stahl Stromberg took the SHOWstudio picture phone to document the shop's arrival; hard to miss in the form of a 'sandwich-board campaign' on the cities streets.
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Brad Pitt
During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captured Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the 'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.
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Juergen Teller
You've seen the stills and read the book, this is Fuel's graphic interpretation of Go-Sees, Juergen Teller's photographic diary of the wannabe models who came knocking at his door.
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Mauro Cocilio
Photographer Mauro Cocilio took the SHOWstudio picture phone backstage (and front) to document the proceedings of the thirteenth Graduate Fashion Week. Thirty colleges from up and down the UK were screened by a panel of industry luminaries at the Gala Awards ceremony in London's Battersea Park where the winning designers-of-the-future were announced.
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Leigh Bowery
Guiser presented a rare selection of original and previously unpublished material that looked at, listened to and wrote about the legendary figure Leigh Bowery. The extraordinary personage of Leigh Bowery has had an enormous influence on visual culture - across fashion, art, music and performance - and SHOWstudio wanted to celebrate this legacy. Guiser brought together previously unseen film footage of Bowery being photographed by Nick Knight, with unreleased sound material from 'Minty' demo tapes as a soundtrack. Also featured was an essay by one of Leigh's contemporaries, Donald Urquhart -whose own artistic output and creativity mirrors the breadth of Bowery's output, as well as intertwining creatively with it. Urquhart's text gave personal accounts of some of the posthumous events that have commemorated Leigh Bowery.
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Elaine Constantine
'Just for those two and a half minutes, life is fantastic,' says one of the Northern Soulsters filmed by Elaine Constantine getting ready for a night out on the floor.
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David Chipperfield Architects
Follow the design process and visual realisation of this David Chipperfield house. The animation and time-lapse movie documented the build, while Deyan Sudjic's essay and audio interview with David Chipperfield detailed the motivations and architectural soap opera that surrounded it.
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Penny Martin
As a recognised showcase for new talent, the Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyeres brought together ten young fashion designers and photographers under the patronage of an international jury. SHOWstudio's Penny Martin reported from the festival in its nineteenth year.
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David Bailey
Celebrated photographer David Bailey answered questions from visitors in the first of SHOWstudio's live interviews.
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Juergen Teller
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Nick Knight
Nick Knight became the eighth participant in our series of ‘In Camera’ interviews. The SHOWstudio director and leading fashion photographer of twenty-five years answered viewers’ questions during a live webcast at the beginning of May 2006.
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Julie Verhoeven
Follow a week in the multimedia life of artist, illustrator and designer Julie Verhoeven in this sequence of images sent from her weeklong trip to New York. Shows captured through her lens included Luella, Marc and Marc Jacobs.
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Richard Bush/ Hussein Chalayan/Jane How/Nick Knight/Terry Richardson/Raf Simons/David Sims/Tim Walker
Focusing on fashion imagery published and withdrawn at the time of the attacks of 9/11, Killed examined the criteria governing propriety in contemporary fashion publishing. Featured images by Richard Bush & Jane How, Hussein Chalayan, Nick Knight, Terry Richardson, David Sims, Raf Simons and Tim Walker.
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Mark Szaszy
Late one night, Mark Szaszy took three friends, a steel guitar and a lot of vodka, filmed them on his old Hi 8 camera, and then lost the master copy.
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Ebru Ercon
Fresh from a stellar appearance at cult showcase Fashion East, designer Ebru Ercon came into the SHOWstudio live space to photograph her look book, enlisting the help of photographer Dennis Schoenberg and stylist Marie Chaix.
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Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark
Watch the filmic version of SHOWstudio's MAC III print, an image born out of an explosive creative collaboration between McQueen, Knight and Clark. Featuring McQueen's Depression-era marathon dance inspired Spring/Summer '04 collection, and Clark's choreography, this multi-faceted film captured nine views of the gracefully suspended bodies in motion, the elegantly athletic composition that was set up for Knight's Numéro magazine shoot.
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Jessica Ogden
Always one to go her own sweet way, designer Jessica Ogden has offered to shed light on this sacred territory of new ideas. Accompany Ogden on her weeklong trip to Chennai (formerly Madras), India, via this sequence of captioned images, which were sent to SHOWstudio daily.
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Donald Christie
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Camille Vivier
Love's flame burns eternal as the lifespan of the romance represented outlasts the Santeria candle pictured in Camille Vivier's short film.
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Nick Knight
Check in each day to view a different fashion performance from one of fifty performances by the greatest models, from Jerry Hall and Linda Evangelista to Kate Moss and Angela Lindvall.
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Sam Blair/David Bailey/Fabien Baron/Francesca Burns/Liz Collins/Lily Cole/Patrick Demarchelier/Julien D?s/Arthur Elgort/Karen Elson/Katy England/Jason Evans/ Simon Foxton/John Galliano/Val Garland/Bay Garnett/Katie Grand/Alice Hawkins/Shona Heath/Hiromix/Eamonn Hughes/Stephen Jones/Jonathan Kaye/Steven Klein/ Nick Knight/Thomas Lenthal/Peter Lindbergh/Christian Louboutin/Glen Luchford/Alister Mackie/Stella McCartney/Sam McKnight/Marian Newman/Oribe/Kate Phelan/Gareth Pugh/Emma Reeves/Paolo Roversi/Stella Tennant/Toyin/Solve Sundsbo/Willy Vanderperre/Tim Walker/!WOWOW!
The printed page has determined the way fashion looks since women's magazines were first introduced. For over three centuries garments have appeared as if frozen still. Nick Knight's key motivation for founding SHOWstudio was to investigate the representation of clothing through sound and motion; perhaps the last great challenge in fashion image making.'Moving Fashion' aimed to exploit this exciting new opportunity through an in-depth study of fashion film.
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Jason Evans
To tide us over the tense, festive period and into the unchartered New Year, photographer Jason Evans delivered some much-needed daily optimism. Sending an image each day from his month-long trip down under and more, Evans took the SHOWstudio picture phone to north and south New Zealand, Los Angeles, San Francisco, southern California and Hong Kong. Those who lamented the completion of Evans' acclaimed 'Beauty Where You Find It' project and enjoyed the sheer joy of his 'Daily Nice' website will appreciate the idiosyncratic eye, capacity for fun and unexpected tastes that have become the Evans hallmark.
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Nick Knight/Katy England
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England, redressed the balance in a shoot starring seven women who have fought breast cancer and won.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Interview] [Performance] [Body Image] [Katy England]
David Weightman
Ordinary people on an ordinary street in an ordinary town on an ordinary day. If it's all so ordinary, why does one of David Weightman's old ladies seem to be crushing another, and why is a disembodied hand creeping around the corner?
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SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers took up the gauntlet.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Politics] [Body Image] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Sophia Kokosalaki] [Shelley Fox] [Jessica Ogden] [Marjan Pejovski] [Bodymap]
Björk/Nick Knight/Insert Silence/Paul Barnes
Exclusive, uncensored version of the video for Björk's new single, Pagan Poetry, directed by Nick Knight. Also featuring a magical, reactive graphic interpretation and a downloadable typeface; designed for the single sleeve.
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John Galliano
John Galliano's five years at Christian Dior were marked by a series of Nick Knight images that interpreted the Dior couture collections. SHOWstudio took you behind the scenes of the shoot...
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Jamie Morgan
The seminal idiom of Morgan's 80s style photography endures in this diverse showcase of his adventures in motion imagery.
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Alice Hawkins
The Female Gaze: photographer Hawkins asked her sitters how they would like to be represented to their lovers for her two-week residency, using picture phones.
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Sean Bidder, Norman Jay, Gerald Jenkins, Liz Johnston Artur, Marc Lebon, Jo Ratcliffe
Three photographers braved the throngs to capture the full experience of Good Times at the 2003 Notting Hill Carnival via picture and videophones.
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Mark Lebon
Photographer Mark Lebon used his month-long residency to conduct a personal portraiture project, using a picture phone as his camera.
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David Weightman
In homage to 'Peeping Tom', David Weightman's live portraiture project used a special mirror camera to document the front row at Paris Fashion Week.
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Venice Biennale
While braving the heat and crowds at this year's Venice Biennale, SHOWstudio's curatorial projects director, Christabel Stewart reported live on picturephone from the self-proclaimed 'exhibition of exhibitions' as it celebrated its fiftieth year at the forefront of international art.
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Bjšrk/Catherine Deneuve/Katy England/Tracey Emin/Marianne Faithfull/Heidi Fleiss/Emma Forrest/ Shona Heath/Courtney Love/Penny Martin/Stella McCartney/Catherine Millet/Aimee Mullins/Ross Phillips/Isabella Rossellini/Peter Saville/Emmanuelle Seigner/Liv Tyler/Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Mario Sorrenti/Jane How
Cheese and liquorice were among the unlikely materials that modelled the likenesses of contemporary icons for this W magazine jewellery shoot.
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Paul Hetherington, Penny Martin, Christabel Stewart
To reveal the process of a staple industry practise, SHOWstudio initiated 'PORTFOLIO', an opportunity to invite practitioners - both established and new - into the SHOWstudio space to disclose their books live on camera. Part of an ongoing, fortnightly project, highlights of these portfolios were captured to create an accumulating resource, both for future SHOWstudio projects and as an inventory of new talent.
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Comme des Gar�ons
Legendary designer Rei Kawakubo opened up her highly intellectual creative process for consideration in this unprecedented collaboration with SHOWstudio. Following the production of a photographic shoot from its inception to its delivery to Another Magazine for its September issue, this project demonstrated how the many creatives involved in making fashion imagery responded to the overarching conceptual direction of the celebrated Comme des Garçons visionary.
For the initial, three-day phase of the project, photographer Nick Knight and stylist Alister Mackie interpreted the emotional theatre of the Autumn/Winter '04 Commes des Garçons collection with its attenuated jacket sleeves. From there, follow the post-production of the resultant photographs in a dialogue between Knight and his imaging collaborator Allan Finamore as they extended the visual parameters of the pictures taken on set via digital manipulation. Finally, Kawakubo added the 'hand of the artist', imbuing the final images with her individual response to them.
A live discussion forum ran throughout the project, giving SHOWstudio viewers the opportunity to ask questions of the creatives active during each stage.
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Toyin/Kim Jones
As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have been the photographer's motivating obsession...
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SImon Foxton/Alasdair McLellan
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, Simon Foxton the styling.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Menswear] [Styling] [Sportswear] [Alasdair McLellan]
Eley Kishimoto
SHOWstudio collaborated with Eley Kishimoto on a series of screen-based works that marked 10 years of their cult patterns and which were broadcast across London during Fashion Week.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Stylists] [Jason Evans] [Eley Kishimoto] [Textile Prints] [Norbert Schoerner] [Laurent Fetis] [Elisabeth Arkiphoff] [Shona Heath] [Rory Crichton] [Adam Mufti] [Frauke Stegmann]
Shelley Fox/Scanner/D-Fuse
Fox launched her collection No. 14, based on the cyclical lives of family portraiture. Her garments were showcased in a groundbreaking audiovisual environment created in collaboration with photographers Hiroshi Kutomi and Gareth McConnell, audio pioneer Scanner and with projections by D-Fuse.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Music] [Documentary] [Hiroshi Kutomi] [Gareth McConnell] [Shelley Fox]