Black Coffee 2009

Black Coffee recently won the Mercedes Benz South Africa Award, in fashion design. I was lucky enough to join them in Berlin for their fashion show at Berlin fashion week and shot a backstage documentary which will be featured in this months BDFM's Wanted Magazine which will launch this weekend. You can get a copy in the Weekender newspaper.

For the Berlin fashion week, Black Coffee catalog I did a shoot here in Johannesburg which was featured on the cover and inside. We also got the front cover of one of Berlins biggest newspapers 'Die Welt.'

I have uploaded the images used in the catalog and some images of the actual media that we where featured in. Have a look below and please send feedback.

To see more of Black coffee's work go to http://www.blackcoffee.co.za/

Chris Saunders 2009

The cover of the the Mercedes Benz South Africa award, Black Coffee catalog. Which was handed out at their Berlin fashion week show.

Featured in the 'Die Welt' newspaper, Berlin, Germany.

Love Jozi Hillbrow

Last month, I shot the new Love Jozi T-Shirt campaign. The new range is 'The Hilbrow range' so we decided to shoot the range in the middle of the infamous part of Johannesburg city. The first image in the series below is a replication from a old image of Hillbrow we found in a now historic book. We found the same spot in the now dilapidated High Point which used to be the centre of the Johannesburg night life.

The rest of the shoot was shot around the area in other aesthetically pleasing and relevant spots.

To see the range and the rest of the shots please check out http://www.lovejozi.co.za

Chris

From left to right: Andrew Chandler, Tamara Dey, Bradley Kirshenbaum (Creator/Designer/Owner of Love Jozi), Sparkling, Conquer, Jacques van Der Watt (Stylist and designer from Black Coffee)

The original Hillbrow book image

Orignal shot of Hillbrow high point in Hillbrow book by Paddi Clay

Colors Magazine Italy & The Smarteez

Colors magazine in Italy has recently published my Smarteez shoot and it is now also on the web. Check out the link below.

http://lab.colorsmagazine.com/contributed/smarteez

Awesome!

Chris

Nike Shot Wins at Cannes 2009

One of my shots which was used in a Nike Women ad has won silver at Cannes Lions this year.

Well done to Ogilvy Johannesburg.

The shot is below.

C

The survivors of the wreckage : Sonar 2009

I was lucky enough to attend Sonar in Barcelona for a second year in a row this year. I partied alot more than i took photos this year but below are a couple of the shots that made it through. It was absolute mayhem at the festival and it felt like my brain had been through a meat blender after it, thus is the reason I am only putting this up now.

Enjoy and please feel free to comment.

C

The crowd of Sonar by day

Watching Sebastian on the Saturday night, the crowd was handed a 1000 masks of the portrait on his new album.

The light show during Fever Ray.

Grace Jones. What else can I say!

At 60 she's amazing.

Sebastian on his Pulpit with 30 000 people watching and dancing to his first ever live show.

Micachu and the shapes where one of my favorite bands at this years festival.

I'll let it talk for itself.

Mexican musician Natalia Lafourcade partying hard at Sonar by Night.


The best 2 Euros ever spent.

Young Black & Gifted - (Channel 0 Campaign)

I recently shot the Channel O 'Young, Gifted & Black ' campaign for Ogilvy Johannesburg. I have uploaded some of the images to the blog. The campaign started with a remake of a classic song which lead to a celebrity driven music video and later led onto a t-shirt campaign. They are currently running a competition where you can design a t-shirt of your own and enter it in to be part of the campaign.

We took the Smarteez who I shot last year and we dressed them into the shirts and shot them around Johannesburg. We shot them over one evening and one day in locations such as Joubert Park, Braamfontein and Kliptown Soweto.

Please visit the Channel O 'Young, Gifted & Black' to see some more of the campaign and take part in the t-shirt competition. Visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Channel-O-YGB/79935513850?ref=ts.

Enjoy and please let me know what you think of the shots.
Chris S

Something ridiculous

Hi

Thought I'd put up something totally ridiculous. Took this one while out one night. I though it'd make a great watch advert.

Thoughts...

C

Style Magazine (Switzerland) fashion editorial

In February I shot a fashion editorial in Cape Town for a fashion magazine called Style which is based in Switzerland. The summer issue launches today and below are some of the pics from the editorial.

Please let me know what you think,
Chris

Team Uncool Fashion Blog

Murray Turpin and I have decided to launch the Team Uncool Fashion Blog. Its an outlet for my street fashion photography and a place for him to unleash his leagues of fantastic fashion jargon and links.

So far we have got a couple of blog vs. Blog links as well as a street fashion shoot in Newtown during the Hip Hop street festival 'Back 2 Da City'.

I have put a couple of the pics in this entry but please check out the blog. If you would like to keep up to date with what we are doing and receive updates when we put stuff up on the Team Uncool Fashion Blog. Please email me or join our team uncool facebook group.

Check it out at http://teamuncoolfashion.blogspot.com

Chris

MTN Sama's campaign

I Recently shot the campaign for the MTN Sama's below are the 4 portraits with titles below each one. I have also included 3 of the finished ads.

Let me know what you all think.

Chris

Goldfish

Zebra & Giraffe

Rhythmic Elements

Zama Jobe