PHOTOGRAPHY
Summer 2019
THIS PAGE : Portrait by Michael Shelford. COVER IMAGES : front, singer Danny Azkar, rear, singer Kelly Mathieson , both by Michael Wharley.
About Michael Wharley FBIPP Hello, this is me: I shoot advertising, portrait & editorial imagery for entertainment industry clients & beyond, in my central London studio & worldwide. For unparalleled detail and quality, I now use the world-leading Phase One IQ4 150MP medium format system. I’m a Fellow of BIPP, an AOP member & the BIPP Photographer of the Year 2018. Oh, and I love coffee, open water swimming and (for my sins) Liverpool Football Club. www.michaelwharleyphoto.com e: michael@michaelwharleyphoto.com tel: 07961068759 twitter & insta: @michaelwharley
‘A beautiful autumn on location shooting stills & a poster brief from The Posterhouse for Embankment & Lionsgate scarcely felt like work’
PROJECT : SUMMERLAND (2019) CLIENT : Embankment / Lionsgate DETAILS : Stills and on-set specials of all cast including Gemma Arterton for key art on national billboard, London underground & online campaign, and for international campaigns.
‘Sourcing Alice Lowe’s 9 month pregnancy bump & an outsize carving knife was less-than-usual shoot prep...’
PROJECT : PREVENGE (2017) CLIENT : Kaleidoscope Film Distribution / AllCity Media DETAILS : Studio-shot imagery of actor/ writer/director Alice Lowe for key art on national billboard, London underground & online campaign.
ABOVE : Group shot for Victim
O t h e r F i l m Wo r k
PROJECT : Amelie: The Musical (2019) CLIENT : I A Marketing, Hartshorn-Hook DETAILS : Studio-shot key art imagery for billboard, London underground & Bus & online marketing campaign for national tour of the hit film.
Polka Theatre f ull season shows Working with performers from the theatre’s youth groups for posters for 3 shows as part of the 2018 season, including Three Sat Under the Banyan Tree and In the Winter Wood, as well as as imagery shot for stock use.
In the Willows - Metta Theatre Poster & promotional imagery shot for dance company Metta Theatre’s hit 2019 hip-hop infused version of Wind in the Willows. Not many shoots feature the strong smell of petrol...
‘An actual hedonistic party in the studio... 12 models & fauxstriplighting for the authentic office feel unified the elements of this composite image. We even shot the money (just not the chimp or parrot!).’
PROJECT : The Wolf of Wall Street (2019) CLIENT : I A Marketing DETAILS : Studio-shot key art imagery for announcement of new experiential production of the Scorcese classic.
T h e L a s t Te m p t a t i o n o f B o r i s J o h n s o n Location-based portraiture to create poster image trading off the iconography of religious painting and the BOJO myth, together with press portaits used in the Metro, The Evening Standard and the show programme.
T h e Ac to r ’s N i g h t m a r e We created a hotel room lit with 8+ gelled lights in the studio for this poster imagery shoot, capturing the nightmarish actor’s reality presented in one of Christopher Durang’s collection of short plays
THE WEIR Caravaggio-inspired brief from English Touring Theatre for UK-wide ad campaign (above, left) followed by on-set shoot with actual cast for tour extension (right). These images won Gold & Photographer of the Year at BIPP National Awards 2018.
‘Shooting on set with flash lighting, captures the nuance of live performance, with the control & detail of a studio.’
P e r s o n a l Wo r k : T h e M i d n i g h t H o u r Creating set-based studio shots, filled with intensity and regret. Part of a series of personal shoots focused on male vulnerability. Above: Sam Swainsbury (Mum & Fishermen’s Friends), Right: this page, BTS shot, Facing Page: Thomas Coombes (Save Me, Hatton Garden Robbery)
Spring Awakening Portraits for a casting announcement on the much-anticipated UK revival of Broadway rock musical Spring Awakening, featuring a young cast and many debutants. Taken in rehearsals on a tight timeframe, client DEM Production was keen to foreground youthful zest , echo the production aesthetic and complement their existing poster campaign.
F a m e ! 3 0 t h A n n i v e r s a r y To u r 80s-infused group portraiture shot for Selladoor’s anniversary tour of the enduring classic.
Napoli, Brooklyn Colourful, pastel, period-inflected group shots for Original Theatre Company’s European premier of Meghan Kennedy’s absorbing Miller-esque drama.
man bun
Sofa Times... Podcasters WillNE and Stephen Tries for This Week on the Internet: Live, and the cast of
Never Trust a Man Bun.
O t h e r T h e a t re Wo r k A selection of recent poster and advertising imagery shot for theatre companies and PR agencies. (this page) Rubenstein Kiss for Southwark Playhouse, Mushy: Lyrically Speaking for Rifco Theatre. (facing page, clockwise) Olivier Award-winner Rotterdam, for Hartshorn-Hook, Wondrous Vulva for Bella Heesom at Oval House, Wasted: The Brontes Musical for Sally Wood, Gugu Mbatha Raw in Nell Gwynn, for The Globe, Boeing, Boeing for EMG, & Moliere Winner Fishbowl for Edfringe 2019 run.
P e r s o n a l Wo r k : T h e At t i tu d e s An ongoing project supporting charity Acting for Others, featuring a broad span of contemporary stage & screen performers in an examination & celebration of the art of acting, taking inspiration from Edmund Shaftesbury’s 1889 book Lessons in Acting. Exhibited at The Globe in 2018.
DEFIANCE & THREATENING Fraser Ayres gracefully recreates the classic Attitude Defiance (above), while Nicholas Pinnock adds a raw modern edge to Threatening (opposite).
THIS PAGE : Olivier Award winner 2019, Monica Dolan, Modern Joy
‘Shooting for 20 minutes max, we recreate or reimagine each classic Attitude’
THIS PAGE : Tony Pitts, Rage.
Editorial & Portrait A selection of work showcasing the range of my editorial & portrait work for a range of institutions & individuals, as well as personal projects.
THIS PAGE : actor Danielle VItalis for personal project.
THIS PAGE : singer Mark Kingswood for UK tour supporting Jools Holland
Editorial & Portrait
Editorial & Portrait
THIS PAGE : Tori & Matt Butler-Hart of Fizz n’ Ginger Films for the release of ‘The Isle,’ distributed in UK by Lionsgate.
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