Photo gallery: What a Concept!

I was looking at this photo by Hans Gissinger, in the Conceptual section of the Stockland Martel website… . . …and that got me exploring the conceptual work by some of SM’s other photographers. And that inspired me to create the following mini-gallery—titled “What a Concept!—which features photos by Fulvio Bonavia, Matthias Clamer, Craig Cutler, [...]

Fulvio Bonavia at Feature Shoot

. Alison Zavos, the photo editor of Feature Shoot, has posted a selection of photos by our own Fulvio Bonavia, who, as she notes, was named Photographer of the Year for 2010 by the Mobius Awards. You can read her post here. . . .

Nine Stockland Martel photogs featured in Luerzer’s “200 Best”

Luerzer’s Archive has just published the 2010/11 edition of its venerable photo annual 200 Best Ad Photographers, and nine of our photographers are featured. We proudly congratulate Fulvio Bonavia, Martin Sigal, John Offenbach, Uwe Duettmann, Jason Hindley, Jim Fiscus, Nadav Kander, Kai-Uwe Gundlach, and Michael Muller. Click on the image below to view a slideshow [...]

Mobius names Fulvio Bonavia “Photographer of the Year” for his boundary-pushing imagery

. Our congratulations to Fulvio Bonavia! He’s just been named Photographer of the Year by the Mobius Awards. The Mobius Awards have been around since 1971, but this particular award is new. From the press release: “The award represents the competition’s intent to document and celebrate the image qualities that make a photographer’s body of [...]

Care for a broccoli handbag or some eggplant slippers?

.. Fulvio Bonavia’s book A Matter of Taste (Hachette Australia), which features the conceptual photographer’s sublimely absurd still lifes of apparel and accessories that he fashioned from foodstuffs, continues to wow the press overseas. The newspaper Corriere della Sera in Italy, in fact, has just posted a 15-image photo gallery from the coffee-table book, including [...]

22 motion, advertising, and editorial highlights

… You know how magazine covers always tout the number of good things contained inside? “85 Uses for Your Gardening Hose.” “Rock-Hard Abs in Only 3,427 Steps.” “0 Reasons to Like Sen. Joe Lieberman.” Well, we’ve taken a similar (but more serious) approach with our 2009 Winter E-Newsletter. If you’re on our mailing list, you [...]

Stockland Martel launches boutique stock site

…. We’re thrilled to announce that Stockland Martel Archives, a boutique stock site that we’ve been developing, is now live. As you know, we’re fortunate to represent some of the best-known commercial, advertising, documentary, and fine-art photographers in the world, and with Stockland Martel Archives, we’ll be able to offer you carefully curated selections that [...]

3 new campaigns by Fulvio Bonavia: rubber soul, the birth of a biker, and lap gods

Our Italy-based photographer Fulvio Bonavia has three excellent new campaigns out. Two of them, for Yamaha and Pirelli, really show off his skills as a conceptual photographer, while the third—portraits for European gas and electric company Enel—prove that Bonavia is just as comfortable taking a head-on approach, so to speak. The idea behind the campaign [...]

Summer 2009 Newsletter

… For an interactive version of this newsletter, which will take you directly to the photographers’ online portfolios, please click here. … … …