Through my lens - As well as taking photos, one of our photographers, Kamila, is a coffee aficionado. Previously working as a barista she now loves to share her new and exciting coffee discoveries from all over the world, and captures them in stunning 35mm film. Coffee also plays a huge role in Block Art Media, we all met in a coffee shop and all love good coffee. This series marries Kamila’s love of both coffee and photography and we hope that you enjoy discovering these hidden gem coffee spots.
Read morePhoto feature in Modern Barber Magazine: Fella Hair Ft. Copperfield clothing
It was one of the last glorious days of summer. The shoot was an epic collaboration between our friends at Fella Hair and the amazing Canterbury based clothing shop Copperfield. The theme of the shoot was inspired by the 1990s skate scene.
We met up over in the lovely seaside town of Folkestone, home of Fella’s 2nd barbershop. The town has a strong creative community and a tonne of cool shooting locations. Barber’s; Alex, Tommy, Jayson & Hollie had sorted out our models with some great cuts and we were joined by Pete from Copperfield clothing for the shoot. Copeperfield provided us with a great range of clothing from Carhartt, Needles, Danner boot, pop trading and the list goes on.
The images went on to be published in an advert in Kent’s very own ‘Cene' magazine and had a full feature in the collections section of Modern Barber magazine!
The pictures are also featured on the brand spanking new Fella website on their Lookbook section. You can check the full shoot out here.
Anyway, that’s enough talking from us here is a little animation all about the shoot, enjoy!
A huge thanks to everyone who was involved:
Hair colouring and styling:
Clothes styling
Peter - Copperfield’s clothing
Models
Charlie Gordan
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Product Photography: Sword and Stone
Last year we were sent on a photography mission by Tim, the founder of Sword and Stone. Tim’s aim with the brand is creating exciting and edgy (pun intended) high-quality products for budding home chefs! We were lucky enough to photograph his latest product, codenamed “The Spitfire”. We wanted to create a range of environments to show the knife in all its glory.
The Spitfire Chef’s knife in all its glory.
Creating the scenes
Autumnal Veg
We decided to make the autumnal scene fairly rustic looking, so we popped down to the Goods Shed in Canterbury to hunt for some truly earthy looking and photograph worthy veg. We picked out some lovely looking squashes, radishes, shallots and pears, which all had lovely colours and textures, perfect for the scene.
The Beach bar
Moving away from the moody scene we wanted something more fresh and summery; an image which invoked the feeling of a beach bar or warm summer afternoon spent in your garden with cocktails and fresh salad.
The Christmas dinner
Tim also wanted some shots of the knife in action. This one was based around Christmas dinner preparation. We went for a moody atmosphere with a main focus on the knife.
The New Year’s party
As the knife is also a show-off piece we felt a dinner party setting was perfect to help illustrate this. Orange and an old-fashioned cocktail felt like the perfect props for this winter evening party scene.
The launch of the knife!
We wish Tim all the best with Sword and Stone in 2021!
The new knife has now officially launched!
be found featuring the images over on the Sword and Stone website: https://shopify.swordandstone.co.uk/products/spitfire-chefs-knife
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