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Last Updated 15th August 2006
In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered it's international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Mecury Music prize winning group Antony and the Johnsons. As part of the concept for the portrait shoot on 1st December 2005, Nick Knight used a selection of photographic imagery, submitted by SHOWstudio viewers, to inspire an experimental musical performance. The visuals were projected onto Antony, resulting in a beautiful photographic spread that appeared in the February edition of i-D magazine. Incorporating a gallery with 500+ contributions from SHOWstudio viewers, documentation of the initial brief, shoot and the published story in i-D magazine, the project's spectacular finalé piece takes it's form in an atmospheric film –featuring Antony and a myriad of inspirational imagery courtesy of SHOWstudio' viewers- created by Nick Knight and edited by Sam Blair.
> Movie
Last Updated 15th August 2006
Watch the three-minute film captured by Nick Knight, featuring a selection of visual imagery courtesy of SHOWstudio viewers, projected onto Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons.
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Film Launch!
Those of you with superb memories will recall Nick Knight's shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons at the end of last year. Proceedings began in November when we gave SHOWstudio viewers the unique opportunity to have their work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot. Given an open brief (with the exception of lead singer Antony’s enthusiasm for gardens, nature and horses) and a one month deadline, viewers really did us proud, submitting a diverse selection of visual imagery incorporating landscapes, helium-filled foil balloons, a burning building, ponies and bedroom interiors. On 1st December, during the shoot at Park Royal Studios, Nick projected a selection of inspirational visuals onto Antony, which resulted in beautiful imagery that appeared in the February edition of i-D magazine. However, the project’s real pièce de résistance is a film created by Nick Knight which we are proud to launch on the site today. Sensitively edited by our sometimes video editor Sam Blair, the atmospheric film is perfectly accompanied by the group’s evocative song ‘I am a Bird’.
By Laura Bradley, 17:21 Thursday, 17 August
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> Credits
Last Updated 5/9/2006
Concept and Direction: Nick Knight
Editorial and Creative Direction: Penny Martin and Paul Hetherington
Edit: Sam Blair
Project Design: Paul Bruty
Editorial Assistance: Laura Bradley and Melissa Taylor
Studio Assistance: Anna Gudbrandsdottir
Antony and the Johnsons Shoot
Film: Nick Knight
Styling: Jamie Surman
Make-up: Makky at Streeters
Set Design: Simon Costin
Photographic Assistance: Jez Tozer, Simon Thistleton and Eisuke Negishi
Fashion Assistance: Olivia Platon
Location: Park Royal Studios
Lighting: Kinetic
Special thanks to: Antony and the Johnsons and SHOWstudio viewers who contributed to the project
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Nick Knight
Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio.com, is among the world’s most influential and visionary photographers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative...
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