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The legend of Lilith - part two 2007-11-03 21:11:27 Continued from the previous entry The legend of Lilith – part one
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Alessandra
Model Agency: PMG
Art Director: Anouchka Tanguy
Make-up Artist: Kate Noble
Location: Shanghai, China
The legend of Lilith - part one 2007-10-29 22:32:56 I claim this blog as mine, there you go, take that: Blog Catalog
This is the first in a series of photos I shot a couple of weekends ago with a wonderful team team by my side. It was my first time working with Anouchka Tanguy, a French Art Director working here in Shanghai, and hopefully this will be the first of a few shoots before she goes back to France. After meeting Alessandra, Anouchka got inspired by the myth of Lilith – Adam’s evil first wife who refused to have missionary sex with him, or so Jewish legend has it.
Here’s a quick summary of the story/legend:
According to Jewish folklore, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She
was banished from the Garden of Eden when she refused to make herself
subservient to Adam (specifically, she refused to get into the
missionary position with him during sex). When she was cast out, she
was made into a demon figure, and Adam was given a second wife, Eve,
who was fashioned from his rib to ensure her obedience to her
Ulia - Beauty 2007-10-05 22:54:40 Here’s another beauty shoot with a new model in town called Ulia. I have been cooperating with PMG, a model agency here in Shanghai, for the last couple of shoots. They lend me models to let my imagination (and the rest of the team’s) go crazy and I give them photos in exchange. I’ve been meaning to strengthen my portfolio with more creative and stronger beauty images.
This week’s photo-shoot was my baby – creatively. I wanted to play with the futuristic idea of a Fembot that wakes up in the future, maybe from a cryo-induced sleep. In the second series, the idea was to play with the phrase ‘eye candy’. I’m quite happy with the results, delicious indeed! And the last series comes down to one word: ‘purity’.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Ulia
Model Agency: PMG
Make-up Artist: Kate Noble
Creative Concept: Philippe Roy
Location: Shanghai, China Read more:Beauty
Eve Marie - Fashion 2007-08-28 05:41:31 Eve Marie
is a new model in town, she just set foot in Shanghai, straight from Lyon… To try and get a foot in the door of the modeling industry here she asked me to help her replenish her portfolio with more recent photos. We did a little bit of fashion and glamour, mixed in with some lingerie and head-shots. It was quite a busy day indeed, here are the results:
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Style: Fashion
, lingerie and portrait
Model: Eve Marie Moos
Make-up: Kate Noble
Bastien's World 2007-08-26 05:52:02 Bastien, a French friend of mine in Shanghai, asked me to do a special favor for him. He wanted to send a photo, with a touch of humour (make that dark French humour), to one of his friend’s parents – who lost a finger to a lawnmower. The message: “even with nine fingers, you can still hold the world”.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Type: Portrait Photography
Model: Bastien Read more:World
Karina - Beauty 2007-08-06 05:57:23 I’ve been talking, for what seems like ever, of getting Shanghai’s creative minds together for a series of shoots, once a month, with no other purpose than to splatter the walls with our pulled creativity.
Now, it seems like the train is set in motion with this second, of what I hope will be many, beauty fashion shoot.
The creative concept was defined and born in Matsume’s head, it’s all about phobias and our dark unexplored side. Death, plastic, birds, cages and clowns were all at the party… served with a bit of wine!
Behind the camera…
And, for the heck of it, since I never seem to do this, here’s some behind the scene photos from the shoot. The hair and make-up took quite a long time, our day lasted 10 hours for 3 sets, but it was truly well worth it.
Thanks a lot to my beautiful other half, Louise, for taking photos of me while performing the gymnastics of photography, not to mention the model who sat for hours on end un Read more:Beauty
Melanie - Maxim Style 2007-08-02 20:45:56 Melanie just arrived in Shanghai from the US and is working here for a year or so. She contacted me to set-up a photoshoot, “I want something sexy and trashy” she said… and I had to oblige!
I’ve been building up my model portfolio as of late and have accepted to do a few shoots in exchange for prints to do so. And Maxim
style is definitely a style that I’m lacking in my port. So here are the fruits of the day, enjoy!
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Style
: Maxim, Lingerie
Model: Melanie Read more:Melanie
Santini - Beauty 2007-07-30 17:57:42 I’ve started working on a new project, trying to gather different talents in the industry all around me and put them (us) together to work on some really creative images. I must say that I don’t have a lot of beauty photography in my portfolio, yet I still found some people willing to jump in and try it out.
Special thanks to PMG International for “loaning” us Katya Santini for a day of creative photography and pure fun.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Type: Beauty
, Creative
Model: Katya Santini
Model Agency: PMG International
Creative Director: Kate Noble
MUA: Kate Noble
Hairstylist: Trevor Ozdemir
Spin Cycle 2007-07-30 08:17:03 It’s all about experimentation, water and ink. A little inspiration from Tim Burton and lots of fun with colours. Voila!
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Style: Still life, creative Read more:Cycle
Red Shoes - Still Life 2007-07-29 11:09:15 Someone once asked me which photographers I inspire myself most from… and though it’s truly not visible through most of my photos Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and David Lachapelle would be among my top three. Their fascination with women and how to empower them in photography has always taken me.
This shoot is a bit of a tribute to Bourdin, and my own, obsession and love with high heel shoes on beautiful women. It’s not a side of my photography that I explore to often, but the experience was truly liberating. And I must admit that I’m quite pleased with the results, as I was aiming for an artistic fashion still life.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Style: Creative, Still Life
Model: no mannequin were hurt during this photoshoot
Alessandra - Doll Dance 2007-11-10 22:09:59 Slowly, in the middle of the night the doll’s hand twitches. And she awakens. Coming to life she explores the joys of freedoms and movement, as teddy watches her jealously.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Alessandra
Model Agency: PMG
Art Director: Anouchka Tanguy
Make-up Artist: Kate Noble Read more:Dance
Nivea - Beauty 2007-11-29 18:40:25 While most photographers would jump at the occasion of having a studio to their full disposition for a few hours, few would jump at the occasion of spending those hours with a bottle of Nivea
hand moisturizing cream – versus spending those hours with a beautiful model! Except for me, of course – though models are always tempting, sometimes I like to take up the challenges of product photography.
Nivea is one or Rimagine’s regular clients.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Studio: Rimagine – The Photography Company
Retouching: Philippe Roy Read more:Beauty
Glass Portraits - Victor 2007-11-27 19:17:59 It’s not often these days, but when I do have a little bit of time to myself in studio I usually like to experiment with lighting and different ideas that I have. Most often, or so it seems, my victim of choice is my assistant: Victor
.
Sometimes I think being a photographer is like being an older brother, when I can take my assistant and use him for my experiments… and he can’t really complain about it.
Anyhow, before I digress too far away! The point of that day was to bend the rules of the Bokeh effect and see if I could break them. I didn’t quite succeed as technically my subject in the background should have been so blurry it would only be circles… oh, well another day, another experiment! But, it’s not to say I’m unhappy with the results!
I posted, the final result in this post but I was going through my archives today and saw the rest of the shoot and thought I’d share a bit more.
Here’s the original for Read more:Glass
, Portraits
Ariel - Glamour 2007-12-18 00:27:19 I know it’s been a while, my bad, but it does mean I’ve been busy… and if I’ve been busy it means more photos for the blog! ;)
I’ll be going to Sydney (Australia) for the Christmas holidays (visiting my girlfriend’s family!) and instead of digging out the car in Montreal, I’ll be flippin’ some ‘shrimps on the barbie!’
I have set-up a couple of shoots in Oz also… so more to come!
This is Ariel
Chen, we’ve been talking about organising a shoot for the better part of a year but with conflicting schedules, colds and whatnot we hadn’t been able to do it until now!
But, as you can see, we finally made it! We rented out a hotel room and got down to work.. a bit of a glamour/fashion twist for you! Enjoy.
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Ariel Leanne Chen
Make-up: Ariel Leanne Chen
Retouching: Philippe Roy
George, Gina & Lucy - Product photography 2008-03-10 19:16:25 Certainly one of the interesting things of working as a photographer here in Shanghai is to see all the new products being developed before they’re shipped off to the rest of the world. And since everything nowadays seems to be made in China, I get to see quite a bit on my light table.
This series was done for George
, Gina and Lucy bags that wanted to have ‘beauty’ shots of their products (also called ‘hero’ shots int he biz) to make posters for their shops.
Client: George, Gina & Lucy
Photographer: Philippe Roy / Rimagine.com
Style: Product photography
Location: Shanghai, China
Philips - Industrial photography 2008-03-01 19:06:39 I truly enjoy doing industrial and corporate photography
. Maybe it’s the boy in me, but I find a true pleasure at getting my hands dirty and dealing with huge and powerful machines.
Through Rimagine, one of our most consistent industrial clients is DMG and it’s not only a pleasure to work for them because we get to travel all over Asia, but they’ve got some of the biggest and coolest machines!
Photographer: Philippe Roy / Rimagine.com
Style: Industrial
and Corporate photography
Client: DMG
Agency: Montfort – Shanghai
Location: Philips
factory, Singapore
Dreams, dreams, dreams 2008-02-28 16:58:11 I just came back from two assignments, one in India and the other in Korea, shooting fro Rimagine – and starting another six shooting-day project now. I love my work, but sometimes I can’t help but dream of the beaches of Thailand…
photographer: Philippe Roy
Style: Travel photography
Location: Koh Samui, Thailand
Exercice de style 2008-02-13 05:04:23 One of my favorite plays (and books) is based on Queneau’s book:Exercice de style. It’s a basic story. A guy goes to the bus stop, boards the bus and gets down a few stops later. Simple, straight forward and to the point. Yet, he takes the same story and twists it and re-twists it a hundred times over to recount the events in different styles, breaths and rhythms.
Very often, I’m reminded of the book when I open PhotoShop. There just seems to be so many possible directions one can take to treat an image.
I keep coming back to this image I did of my old assistant during a light test (I wanted to the the lighting effects of a beauty dish with macro-portrait photography, for those who are curious to know). The photo is simple, yet there’s so many ways to treat it
Details on life in Shanghai 2008-02-12 06:15:17 I’ve been teaching photography to two French expats here in Shanghai
, they’re mostly interested in portraits, people and street photography. While they were hunting people down the many alleyways of Shanghai, I took a few snaps here and there of different corners of these alleyways.
One interesting(?) thing to mention before going on to the photos, is that in Shanghai’s obsession with renovating it’s international image, for the Olympics (Beijing, 2008) and the international expo (2010), it’s tearing down most of these old houses and alleyways to make place for skyscrapers and expensive apartment compounds. The people who are kicked out of their flats by the new landlords are either re-located an hour out of town or given money for their flat – but i
Winter Blues 2008-02-08 21:57:49 It’s been snowing quite a fair bit in Shanghai lately, though certainly not as much as back home. Sometimes I like winter and sometimes I don’t – when I don’t it’s mostly because it involves digging the car out of a mountain of compact snow!
The snow is Shanghai is far from being impressive, to Canadian eyes, but it certainly does make me miss home, a good ski hill and a hot cup’o’coco at the top-of-the-hill ski lodge.
photographer: Louise Adele Hubbard (my lovely tender half!)
Style: Landscape photography
Location: Freelightsburg (Eastern Townships), Quebec, Canada Read more:Blues
Schlumberger (industrial) 2008-02-08 06:27:09 Here’s a change of pace. From the archives, this is one of my favorite industrial shoots from back in 2005, it was shot in Singapore. It was done through Rimagine, one of the first assignments I did with them.
Photographer: Rimagine / Philippe Roy
Style: Industrial / corporate photography
Client: Montfort Agency, representing DMG machines
location: Singapore Read more:Schlumberger
Stalking Legs 2008-02-03 03:32:22 This is the final installment of the series with Bella. My hits have jumped from about 30 to 40 per day to 600 on the days I post the fresh photos. So, I guess I’ll be back to the old traffic in a couple of days. It was good while it lasted, and I truly feel like sex does sell!
This is a bit of an idea that seems to have crawled on me and I think we might see more of this series (not with Bella, but with new models) coming in the future. In the mean time, enjoy:
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Bella
style: artistic nudes
Location: Shanghai, China Read more:Stalking
The Lamp (nudes) 2008-01-31 03:46:55 This is the second part of the shoot with Bella. I packed the studio lights and we decided to play around with the environment’s light… quite literally!
photographer: Philippe Roy
model: Bella
Location: Shanghai, China
Texture (nudes) 2008-01-29 01:59:22 Looking at my website stats in the last month I’ve noticed that quite a few searches end up on this website with the word “nude” inserted somewhere in the keyword phrase.
Now, I don’t exactly specilalise in nudes, but it did force me to take a second look at my nudes portfolio. I realised that the quality level of the photography in that portfolio is not on pare with the rest of my photography – since most of the photos date from at least 2 years ago! So, I’m taking steps to remedy this.
This is the first, of many I hope, of macro nudes:
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Model: Bella
style: artistic nudes / macro photography
Location: Shanghai, China Read more:Texture
Simply Thai - Food Photography 2008-03-11 20:38:39 I admit that I do not do a lot of food photography. Some say it’s the hardest type of photography there is. Everything is very time sensitive and intense. The photo mus be finished before the lettuce welts and before the ice cream melts… but in the end it’s well worth it.
So when Rimagine approached me about doing a food photo-shoot for Simply Thai (a well known Thai restaurant here in Shanghai) I got really excited and wanted to take up the challenge!
The photos below were actually taken in 2005, since then I’ve done other food photography with restaurants and products. Stayed tuned on the blog for more, and even possibly a food photography portfolio section… hint hint!
Here’s the results from the first shoot:
Photographer: Philippe Ro
Lelo - Hero shots 2008-03-15 06:15:10 The creators of the Lelo personal vibrator for women, have created more than just a great ‘toy’ for women but also an object of distinct design. It’s with it’s flowing lines and sleek design that Lelo got me excited, purely as a photographer, of course.
So, when the people at Rimagine came to me to come up with ideas for beauty / hero shots
for Lelo – for whom they were already doing the pack-shots – I was more than happy to spend a bit of time in studio.
Photographer: Philippe Roy / Rimagine
Style: Product photography, hero/beauty shots
Client: Lelo
Location: Shanghai, China
Justice is Served (funny) 2008-03-28 01:43:43 95% of the time life is China can be a challenge: a new language, a new culture, a different way of doing things… and most of the time it feels like an uphill battle. But, every now and again justice is served and China puts a smile on your face:
This photo was taken by my new international assistant Alex Cheng Loew when we rolled up in front of the Jinan International Airport after a shoot in Shandong province.
Photographer: Alex Cheng Loew
Location: Jinan International Airport, Shandong province, China Read more:Justice
Simply Thai (Food Photography) 2008-04-05 06:15:51
photographer: Philippe Roy
Client: Simply Thai
Studio: Rimagine – The Photography Company
Style: Food photography / Thai
Location: Shanghai, China
Big & Baby Bamboo (Interiors) 2008-04-06 19:31:34 Big Bamboo
Baby Bamboo
Photographer: Philippe Roy
Client: Big Bamboo
Style: Interior and Exterior photography
Studio: Rimagine – The photography Company
Location: Shanghai, China
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