Alex Telfer’s work has been extensively honoured at this years prestigious Roses Creative Awards 2013.

His work in Photography and Direction took the top two honours of the night in collecting the Grand Prix for the Manchester Art Gallery campaign (featured below) and The Chairman’s Award for the Scottish Government Breast Cancer TV spot. You can view the TV Spots on Alex's new website http://www.alextelfer.com/the-roses-creative-awards-2013

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the comprehensive new Alex Telfer branding. The whole project has been a real labour of love and as a result, has brought together a collection of some of the greatest creative minds in fashion, literature and graphic design to help make Alex's vision a reality. You can view the new website @ http://www.alextelfer.com/

Alex firstly commissioned the very talented Studio Precept to undertake the extensive work which included redesigning the portfolio, logo type, website and the limited edition monograph of St Mary's Asylum.

During the process Alex worked with the great fashion designer Nigel Cabourn and Taylor Kent to design and make the amazing portfolio bags. Nigel used a range of fabrics in their manufacture for which he has become synonymous, Ventile, Harris Tweed and the finest Army Canvas and Leather are lavished on the finished product.

The new portfolio design consist of a gorgeous handmade box which contains 30 photographic prints each made on 325 gsm art stock and debossed with the newly created logo. In the bottom of the box is a space to house the St Mary's Asylum Monograph. It is a design which gets right back to basics in understated, high end photographic presentation but in a way that allows the viewer to feel fully connected with the work.

From 9,075 pictures entered by 875 photographers, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools, the jury selected, by a majority vote or better, only 300 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures from 2012. In other words the "Creme de la creme!"

          

An ad campaign for the Manchester Art Gallery from agency BJL Group. Alex superimposes faces from some of the gallery's paintings onto contemporary figures. If you are a regular visitor to the Manchester Art Gallery you might know who is who.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The image of the cyclist features James Collinson's A Son of the Soil. The café-goer is  factory owner James Curtis, as painted by Sir James Lawrence. The face of this young lady idly texting a friend is from Bower Meadow by Dante Gabriel Rosetti.  But I am sure discerning reader of a blog like ours knew this anyway.

 

Nigel Cabourn is a fashion brand with a real sense of heritage and identity. Read more about the brand here http://www.cabourn.com/biography.html.

In 2012 Alex shot a series of images for their heirtage clothing, combining his classic approach to shooting people with his ability to shoot still life when required. I love the feel of these shots and I think I might pop into their Shoreditch store to Cabourn myself up - spot on for this cold weather we are enduring.

 

 

Urging us to drink responsibly, as we do, this shot by Alex Telfer shows that there are two free routes home provided by TFL. One is a chauffeur driven ambulance, the other is rammed together on the tube. Make sure you drink responsibly and choose the right option this holiday period. 

 

The objective of the IPA Best of Health Awards is to showcase the best creativity in the healthcare advertising sector. These Awards, which have been running for seventeen years, are now recognised as the top creative advertising awards by healthcare advertising agencies, as they are the only awards given entirely by peers in the industry.

Congratulations to Simon Norfolk who won Gold in the non-commissioned project series category. Congratulations also to Alex Telfer and Tim Flach who were both selected in then non-commissioned portrait single.A wonderful evening. Thank you AOP.

On the day of the AOP Awards we thought it was fitting that we boldly decide to remove all images on our website that are five years or older. So with a fine(ish) tooth comb we have gone through our site and edited out all those slightly older images. It means saying good bye to some classic award winning images a few of which are featured below - lets hope we win some awards tonight! It is an effort to keep the imagery on our site and of the photographers that we represent utterly contemporary. Also, if you can not remember a particular image after it having been showcased for at least the last five years, it should probably be dropped anyway!

 

Today was the last day our photographers' work was exhibited over 7 floors at AMV BBDO. Their work was well received by the agency and visitors to the agency. If you would like an exhibition at your agency get in touch.

Communication Arts Magazine have selected Alex's NSPCC image to feature.

Alex's "The Pain Within" work has been selected to appear in American Photography.

The new Sony Play Station Vita campaign, shot in Prague by Alex Telfer, commissioned by 180 Amsterdam, Art Directed by Martin Tehart, Art Buying by Meredith Bergonzi.

 

Alex was once again featured as a Top 10 Photographer in Campaigns Annual 2011. This year he was 7th. (Alex was 3rd in 2010 and 1st in 2009). Congratulations Alex - keep up the good work!

We choose this image by Alex Telfer - as the winner of the Peter Bailey Company  IOTM (Image of The Month) Competition. It is part of a campaign shot for Ketchum PR to raise awareness for those that suffer from Neuropathic Pain.  Each diptych is an emotive portrait of the patient accompanied by a still life image representative of their pain.

Other recent winners include Mitch Jenkins IOTM September, Dirk Rees - August and Philip Lee Harvey - July. To view all previous winners of our IOTM competition please click http://www.peterbailey.co.uk/_blog/News/tag/IOTM/

 

Alex attended the launch of The Pain Within exhibition in Hamburg. This whole project has taken a long time to eventually come to life but on the 21 st September the collection of eighteen images was unveiled to the public.

The large scale of the prints really highlighted the suffering of people who endure Neuropathic Pain on a daily basis. The evening was a great success with more than two thousand people visiting on the night.

The Pain Within programme was created to mirror the exhibition and offer a fuller range of stories of the people involved.

Aswell as the images there was a film on show of the making of the project which can be seen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgX2qwNt1LE

Thanks to Sue Wood &  Mindy Dooa of Astellas for sponsoring the entire project and to all the team from Ketchum Pleon for promoting it.