Simon Christopher // Creative

Tiffany Chittenden portraits

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:13:24 +0000

I was recently commissioned to take a number of portraits of Tiffany Chiffenden (Racing Driver/Instructor/Presenter) at the Brooklands Racetrack. Big thank you to the creative talent that is Mark Alesbury for getting me involved in this project and I look forward to seeing Tiff’s new website launch in the coming months.

Tiffany managed to get us exclusive access to Mercedes Benz World where the shoot started at 7pm and finished late.

The results are below – to see more of my photography work, visit siwaller.com

Author E O Higgins

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:29:53 +0000

I took a number of portraits of the very talented author E O Higgins, who has recently signed a literary contract to publish his first novel.

Edward’s work was first published on Jottify, a website where authors can publish their work to a global audience for exposure, commenting and feedback. Within a number of weeks, his book “Conversations with Spirits” was the most popular book on Jottify, and became book of the month, before attracting a number of publishers. His novel has now attracted over 68,500 views on Jottify and apparently there’s a short film being made to promote the book.

You can pre-order Edward’s novel (available June 2013) on Amazon, Waterstones, The Book Depository and all good book resellers.

To see more of my photography work, visit siwaller.com

Paris in December

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:00:03 +0000

DKNG – Poster Process

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:40:12 +0000

DKNG from Santa Monica show their creative process creating a poster for Explosions in the Sky‘s Minneapolis show.

“It’s always been a dream of ours to create an Explosions In The Sky poster. So when we were asked to create one for their recent Minneapolis show, we knew we had to knock it out of the park. The idea behind the poster came from an interview in which the band was described as having a “Mammoth Sound”.

The poster is a 24″ x 18″ two color print screen print on 80 lb. French Speckletone “Sand”. We decided to also print an art print version (sans the text).”

Visit DKNG

EIA Website

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:39:44 +0000

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an independent campaigning organisation committed to bringing about change that protects the natural world from environmental crime and abuse.

After winning a competitive pitch against 7 digital agencies, we have now finished the design and build of the all new EIA website. The site allows EIA to completely manage, update and control the website via a content management system. Visitors to the site can donate money to EIA (one off or monthly) and share the EIA news stories, photos, videos, etc on social media. EIA’s workers are able to add information about their campaigns and investigations from anywhere across the globe bringing awareness to their important work.

Visit the brand new Environmental Investigations agency website

Cantina Ericina Photoshoot

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:07:15 +0000

Here’s a selection of shots from a working trip to Sicily in September 2011, all taken for Cantina Ericina; producers of fantastic Italian wine!

Olympic announcement video

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:48:02 +0000

We filmed this at Locog towers in Canary Wharf with Lord Seb Coe and Keith Wiggins, announcing the wrap for the Olympic stadium.

We did the filming, editing and music.

Dawn: Making the video

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:01:40 +0000

This is a short “behind-the-scenes” film showing director Christophe Mentz creating a music video for “Chocolate Cake” by Parisian group Dawn. The film contains some band introductions and quirky bits on the side….

Dawn is; Aurore Imbert, Aurélien Naffrichoux, Stephan Caracci, Simon Tailleu and Gabriel Mimouni.

Crew: Colas Isnard (Christophe’s assistant), Marion Lucchese (Hair and make up) and Jeanne Brochier (Set designer)

Look out for Christophe Mentz’s “Chocolate Cake” video here

All footage shot and edited by Simon Christopher

The talented Mickey Smith

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:55:17 +0000

Our family on my mother’s side are from Cornwall, near Penzance, as is photographer Mickey Smith. If you haven’t seen his short film “Dark Side of the Lens” (winner of Relentless short stories in 2010) then watch the short video below (on Ashtray films).

Mickey Smith’s interview on BBC Springwatch is great too.

“If I only scrape a living, at least it’s a living worth scraping.”
“If there’s no future in it, this is a present worth remembering.”

Mickey Smith, Dark Side of the Lens

Dawn: Photoshoot

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:55:52 +0000

Here are some photos I took for Parisian band Dawn – These were shot in Marseille over the weekend of the 20th – 23rd May 2011. Their first music video was filmed over this weekend and is currently in post production. See the full shoot here

Aurore Imbert (vocalist / vibes)

Simon Tailleu (double bass / bass guitar)