Photography and video magazine
studio Portraits
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True Talk interview with
Peter Simon Boxing, and personal well being trainer
Easter bunny Shoot Pictures
APRIL 2014
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Contents
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Welcome page 5 Daniella Saunders 6 Laura Davis 8 Saran 15 Jade Elliott 19
The Studio
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Naomi Nicole Gregory 34 Dharmini 36 True Talk with Peter Simon
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Boxing trainer & Creator of shotbox
Kat Pugh George Vere Katie Dawkins Jade Thatcher Loren Peta Think Pink
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Cover Model Wendy Malezo
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The Gift of Life By Davida morris 70 Lottie Waldon-Day 75 Mark Ryder 76 Bisi Hassan 79 Andrew Zographos 82 Apsi Witana 86
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Welcome
This is the first issue of Tru7h a Photography and video magazine to showcase the photos and projects of talented people through the works of Truth Productionz The Media Samurai. We do Photography Filming and graphics and this magazine will showcase some of the skilled art-
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ist, models and performers we get to work with. Almost all the models and actors showcased in the magazine are available to be contacted to offer work to collaborate on any projects that you might wish to do with Truth Productionz. The Magazine is in it primary stages so please show your support by liking the facebook TrurhPro-
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“Very professional. Made me feel at ease. Highly recommended!”
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BIO
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he media samuria is the productionz team at Truth he media samurai is the productionz team at Truth Productionz we are as dedicated to the arts as the samurai is to his sword and we continue to master our skills to assure that your project is a successes.
Polite courtesy, compassion, and complete sincerity. Professional work with a personal touch, Truth Productionz The media Samurai
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“My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect. Perfection may be impossible but every day you can get closer and that’s what I want. Every
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Model: “A very professional service from a multi talented photographer. Very happy with the images he produced.” Saran
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Truth Productionz “Excellent Photographer, focused on getting the right images and gives great direction. Andrew does not faff around taking ages, he is very efficient and gets the shots right first time. In the time I worked with him I was amazed at how many fantastic pictures we got! Excellent organisation and time management skills.”
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“..Andrew is a great photographer with creative ideas. I would definitely work with him again!.” Jade
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Photography, Filming & Green Screen
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he TruthProductionz studio is located on the high street in Streatham Hill. There is free parking Banks, cash points and newsagents close by. The closes train station is Streatham Hill and buses straight to the studio include 133, 159, 250, 109, P13 get off at the Streatham bingo or Downtown Ave. In the Studio: The studio is based in a refurbished Victorian building with high ceilings, and wooden floors. We have a Dressing room and make-up area with a make up mirror and fulllength mirror both well lit.
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he photography studio is equipped with professional grade studio flash lighting and accessories, including Soft boxes, beauty disc, honeycomb filter, diffuses, and reflectors Ready to handle most types of photography at a professional level. Ranges of backdrops are available which include Paper Grey, paper ultra black, Cloth black &White, a purley arcade white column Photo wall mural, and green amongst others; plus we are always updating. Shot accessories include: Furniture Brown leather couch, blue suede couch, a number of chairs and stools, gold stepladder, Black with gold trimmings four poster double bed, an Iron Divider Screen 4 Panel Partition with cream cloth panels and a few others to pick from if needed.
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Truth Productionz Make-up Area
Truth Productionz Purley arcade white column Photo wall mural
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making inspired music!
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making inspired music! 160A New Cross Road London SE14 5AR TEL: 0208 616 0757 Mob: 07853292983 Studio1@misco-records.com
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“Very professional and hospitable photographer. Made me feel very much at ease during the session. Very efficient service; I received the photos the day after the shoot and they were all very good quality. Very highly recommended!”
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Peter Simon The Media samurai
boxing coach and personal trainer &the inventor of Shot Box
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eter ‘Easy’ Simon is a boxing trainer who has worked with some of the best in the boxing world. Watch the interview to see how he grew from a schoolyard scrapper to one of the best trainers in the UK and learn who he’s working with now and what else he’s working on..
True Talk Interview with Peter Simon HERE!!!
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“Andrew is a brilliant photographer. He is really good at giving direction and made me feel completely at ease. He’s highly experienced and very professional and would definitely recommend him.!”
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Model/actor:
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Model/actor:
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“Really nice guy, professional, accommodating, produced great photos and super fast turn around. Very happy”
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Breast cancer Awareness shoots Free shoots to Raise awareness for breast cancer Theme Think Pink Pink Clothing Pink shoes Pink make-up Pink accessories Or Pink Ribbons
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Tasha Jade Photographer: Andrew Location: Truth Productionz
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The Gift of Life
By Davida Morris
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f you were sick, really sick you would want the doctors to do everything they could to make you better. But what if they couldn’t do anything? What if your only hope for survival lay in the hands of a stranger? For thousands diagnosed with the blood cancer leukaemia their chances of survival lie in the hands of persons unrelated and unknown to them. Bone marrow donation from an unrelated donor is the only known cure for the disease but if the potential cure is unknown to the sufferer then how do donor and recipient get together? In this age of rapid technological advancement that has brought us closer than ever rapidly we are in other ways very disconnected from the needs of our fellow man. While there are machines that can do amazing things that can extend life and be less invasive on the body they cannot recreate our physiology. They cannot give life. Only we as people, human beings can do that. It is through people like Orin Lewis and Beverly DeGale that people are brought
together for the express purpose of saving a life.Orin and Beverly’s journey began in 1993 when their son Daniel was diagnosed with the blood cancer leukaemia at the age of six. They were shocked and dismayed like any parent would be but to compound their pain they were told by doctors that it was unlikely their child would receive the life saving bone marrow treatment because their child was of Afro-Caribbean descent. Treatment for leukaemia is race specific so the donor and recipient must be of not only the same race but better results are achieved when they are also of similar ethnicity; that is African to African and Caribbean to Caribbean. Adding to the complexity of the issue is that persons of Afro-Caribbean descent are more genetically diverse than Europeans making the selection pool even smaller. Matching a donor to recipient can be likened to finding a needle in a haystack or winning the lottery. Not impossible but unlikely. When Orin and Bev received their world shattering news there were
just over 550 black people registered on the bone marrow registry. This amounted to less than one percent of the total black population. When faced with such dire odds one has the option to either accept the devastating news and wait for the inevitable or fight to improve the odds by any means necessary. Orin and Bev decided to fight. They did this by creating the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT). The ACLT raises awareness on the need for people to become not only bone marrow donors but blood and organ donors too. They are a life saving charity registering people to be donors at registration drives and conducting registration campaigns on behalf of people in need of a life saving donor. One has to wonder why the numbers are so devastatingly low. According to Orin and Bev it is fear and a lack of understanding of what bone marrow really is and how its collected from the body (there is no drilling and it’s not taken from the spine) that cause people not to donate. © 2014 Truth Productionz
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o back to Daniel. It was a long search but in the end he found his match. An American woman heard the call to action on her side of the pond and decided to be self less. She chose to give a young man she did not know and had never met something of herself in order to save his life because it was the right thing to do. Through the kindness of a stranger Daniel was able to move forward in his life; to attend college, to spend time with his friends, things any young person would do he was able to because someone who had never met him and had no previous knowledge of him decided that his was a life worth saving.
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When information is so readily available and easily accessible I think there is no reason for fear or misunderstanding to stop people from doing what is right and necessary. I think we have a duty to each other to take care of and do what we can for those in need when we have the ability to. We as people sometimes overlook how important we can be to those around us. We don’t always see how much our friends rely on us or may not even see how our behaviour influences them. By becoming a donor and telling friends and family you can spark a conversation they may not have had before or cause a person to act. I don’t think it’s enough to simply say you care or comment on how messed up things can be for a person. We have the power to do great things that leave a lasting impact on people. We only have to make an effort. ACLT 2A Garnet Road (Off Gillett Road) Thornton HeathSurrey CR7 8RD Tel no. 020 3757 7700 www.aclt.org
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“...professional, quick and efficient as well as being really easy to work with.”
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