True to ourselves, we’ve been getting busy and gave our best to suprise you with an amazing christmas promo-piece.
So be sure to check your mail and emails for your wishes from Made of Stills
The whole project should be release soon.
A long time ago looking for a photo show in Paris, I stumbled on «La maison de la Photographie» They were presenting Larry Clark’s work, Tulsa. Back then I had never heard about this man nor his work. Big, bold b&w prints… Pretty intense topic as well (see here) When I got back home I managed to get my hand on a copy of the book. Since that moment these images always stayed in my head. I often wished I returned to a more documentary aspect of photography. I thought that I needed to be travelling for that. Wrong.
About a year ago, a friend of mine started working with drug users downtown Montreal. Larry Clark’s work immediately came to my mind. I saw an opportunity to get back to my photographic roots. I asked him if I could hang out with him to start a photo project. It was a fairly long discussion before we found an angle that could be respectful for the photographed people as well as his own work. So last summer I finally started hanging downtown meeting these new people, chatting with them talking about my photo project and eventually taking pictures in various moments or their existences. These encounters changed the way I see these people when they cross my path in the city. It’s very interresting to get to know some of them, their stories, share their joys and sadness…
More to come
Thank you to Max for the ‘bait’, his subtle yet thought provoking hunch and his well placed hands.
Here is the visual created for the Mira Foundation, a foundation dedicated to raise guide dogs for the blind.
Client: Mira Foundation
Agency: Publicis Montreal
Art Director: Bogdan Truta
Photography: Simon Duhamel
Assistant: Nik Mirus
Retouching and 3D integration: Gabriel Carbonneau
Works in progress.
Simon Duhamel acted as Director of Photography alongside Director Sylvain Dumais for this video produced for McDonald’s. The whole project was shot and released within 24 hours!
Agency: Cossette Toronto
Production: David MacDonald from Sparks
Director: Sylvain Dumais
DOP: Simon Duhamel
Design and performance: Olivier Valiquette, Alex Leduc and Louis-Pierre Chouinard from Atelier 288
Editing: Maxime Dumont
Music: Benjamin Pinkerton
Simon Duhamel and Sylvain Dumais shot together the video for Toronto rock band Spiral Beach. Produced by Sparks, animation will be overlayed to the video to create an underworld environment in which the band and lead signer will be performing. The video was entirely shot with Canon 5D Mark II cameras and Simon took the time to create some eerie scenes of the video as the one seen above.
Band: Spiral Beach
DOP: Sylvain Dumais and Simon Duhamel
Producer: David MacDonal (Sparks Production)
Stop Motion Animation co-directed by Eve Duhamel and Julien Vallee and photographed by Simon Duhamel. This piece was produced as a videoclip proposition for the song Tar Heart of Swedish band Zeitgheist. Produced over a week, it features paper sculptures on rotating platforms with sychronized animated projections.
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