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Book covers

mas — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:57:39 +0000

Creating book covers is one of the best assignments one can have. Interpreting the writing visually in a concentrated form of a single image is a consuming, exciting, challenging… Adding the responsibility of determining the fate of a title in a particular market makes takes the task to another level. Coupling an artistic response with the responsibility of giving the book a chance to reach out for the chooser’s attention is a design balancing act. Seeing the final layout multiplied and ready for distribution is as satisfying as seeing someone picking up the book amongst the the sea of choice, looking at it, reading the annotation at the back and finally committing to the book.

I approach each assignment afresh and as a response to the writing, the target audience and the editor’s brief. I aim to provide alternative solutions and options to reinvent myself and the approach. The result needs to be true to the book, commercially reasonable and technically perfect.

Below is a selection of the titles I have worked on:

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Novel by Louis de Bernières
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Novel by Max Porter
Butcher’s Crossing
Novel by John Edward Williams
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Novel by Narine Abgaryan
Rebecca
Novel by Daphne du Maurier
Never Let Me Go

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Finalist: Sony World Photography Organisation Awards 2016

mas — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:14:32 +0000

One of my photographs has been chosen as one of the top 50 images in the Smile category of the Sony World Photography Organisation awards. My work was selected from 95,541 images entered from photographers across 186 countries.

22 April – 8 May 2016
As a ‘commended photographer’, my photograph will be exhibited on the World Photography Organisation website, and at Somerset House, London as part of the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition. I hope you will have a chance to view it.

In the moment has been chosen as one of the top 50 images in the Smile category of the Sony World Photography Organisation awards.

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Photography: Shortlisted for the British Portrait Photography Prize

mas — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:04:26 +0000

I had the honor to be shortlisted for the 2014 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. “Thinking about my father” was on display for three months in the National Portrait Gallery amongst the best out of the 4000 submissions. Read more about the exhibition in these articles by Creative Review, TimeOut, The Telegraph and The Guardian.

THE EXHIBITION

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 is a unique opportunity to see sixty new portraits by some of the most exciting contemporary photographers from around the world.

The selected images, many of which will be on display for the first time, explore both traditional and original approaches to the photographic portrait through intimate images of friends and family alongside revealing portraits of famous faces.

This year the competition attracted over 4,000 submissions in the form of editorial, advertising and fine art prints and the selected works in the exhibition include the four prize winners as well as the winner of the John Kobal New Work Award.

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Photography: Selected for the 125 edition and exhibition

mas — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:10:47 +0000

I am honoured to be selected for the latest edition the 125World. Featured in the print publication as well as in the exhibition held in the 125Live Gallery “All the featured art work has been chosen for it’s visual innovation and technical expertise”. My photo work “Aspirations” will be part of the show which is to run from 9 to 20 October in the cool area of London’s Brick Lane Old Truman brewery.

Amongst the jury are names like:

Andy Jex – Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi, London.
Bill Hannigan – New York based Vaughan Hannigan photography agency.
Chantal Webber – Webber Represents, in both London & New York.
Daniela Eger – owner and agent at A&O photography agency in Berlin.
Jeremy Leslie – editorial creative director/designer and the voice behind Mag Culture.
Johanna Persson – agent and producer at Aura Photography agency in Milan.
Marcus Agerman-Ross – Owner and Editor of the London based Jocks & Nerds Magazine.
Martin Yates – commissioning art director at Corbis UK.

125LIVE GALLERY
DRAY WALK (OFF BRICK LANE)
LONDON
E1 6QL