Photoplay has launched its new arm, Photoplay Photography, with six top performing photographers in its stable – Mark Clinton, Michael Corridore, Tamara Dean, John Feely, Troy Goodall and Jouk Oosterhof.
Photoplay Photography will represent high end artistic photographers like these alongside its film directors.
- Michael Corridore has the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize in his awards showcase as well as a number of Gold, Silver and Bronze Lions, AWARD Awards, D&AD Pencil nominations. His work has been shown numerous times in Luerzers ARCHIVE, TOP 200 photographers worldwide.
This year, he won the Photobook Melbourne Photo Award and his film, The Rip, for Marcel Sydney’s Art Breaks was shortlisted for a Cannes Lion Film Craft Award. Corridore is available for both photography and motion work through Photoplay.
- Tamara Dean has been a finalist for both the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and National Photographic Portrait Prize.
- Jouk Oosterhof is a National Portrait Prize 2015 nominee from The Netherlands.
- Lifestyle and outdoor photographer, Mark Clinton, has 140,000 plus followers on Instagram.
- John Feely is Capture Magazine Emerging Australian Photographer of the Year and new Oculi member.
- New Zealand photographer, Troy Goodall, is listed in Lürzer’s Archive of the Top 200 Photographers Worldwide.
Heading up Photoplay Photography arm is partner and executive producer Alison Lydiard. Her experience includes being general manager of Griffin Theatre Company and producer of Publicis Mojo’s Roche Contemporary Art Prize, a senior art buyer at Saatchi & Saatchi and creative services manager at Y&R. Lydiard brings a valuable agency-side understanding of what clients need.
Lydiard is supported by producer, Ross Colebatch, who has consulted to the Moran Arts Foundation and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.
“Our photographers create their own individual image of beauty and provoke things differently,” Lydiard commented.
“I’m so excited to join forces with executive producer Oliver Lawrance and the Photoplay team, who are visually arresting storytellers that understand the equal importance of narrative – whether it is across film or in photography – and in new types of collaborative projects.”
Photoplay executive producer Oliver Lawrance added, “Launching a photography arm of Photoplay is exciting yet it also feels like a natural progression from the kind of work we already do as narrative filmmakers, especially in the digital age, where storytellers are increasingly working across both film and photography. I’m thrilled to have our photographers and film directors working in a creative space which encourages this kind of cross-pollination and collaboration from the outset.”
To accommodate Photoplay’s new capabilities, it has launched a new website, designed by Christopher Holt.
