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Santucci & Co. is a management agency representing photographers, set designers and art directors.
March 01, 2011
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Love from Alice
Love from Alice is a photostory about Alice Charity Goddard, shot on the island of Östra Lagnö, in the Stockholm archipelago. It is the second collaboration in the 'Love from' series of publications by Clare Shilland, Beth Fenton & Wood McGrath. See love-from-alice.com for more details.
Clare's photographs will be on display from the 3.3.11. and available to buy from bSTORE.
February 02, 2011
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Bet Orten
“I can't write poems, so I'm taking photographs...”
Take a look at the new Emerging Talent
January 31, 2011
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Awards issue, Wallpaper
Sarah's latest shoot for Wallpaper. Shot by Lacey.
January 26, 2011
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The Nostalgia Factory
We think The Nostalgia Factory, shot for the latest issue of Vanidad, really is vintage Gemma. Styled by Polly Banks.
January 10, 2011
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Jack Wills Spring Term
Elaine's latest campaign for Jack Wills Spring 2011 is now out. To view the images from Spring Term click here, to watch the video click here.
January 06, 2011
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On the Road
On the Road is a project that chronicles the adventures of a group of friends on their journey to the Burning Man Festival from Los Angeles. Intimate and impressionistic, the work marks a further development in Venetia's approach to photography. To see a selection from the series click here.
January 05, 2011
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New Artist
One afternoon in a bookshop in Japan, we came across the book Utatane. It's poetic invocation of the daily rhythms of life and death in Japan, told through an enthralled focus on oft-overlooked details, interspersed with fleeting impressions of things and events both natural and social, had a lasting effect. Ten years on, and many books and shows later, we are proud to announce that we now represent Rinko Kawauchi for artist commissions. She is based in Tokyo. Click here to see a small selection of her work and for more details please call our office.
January 04, 2011
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New Photographer
A new addition to our modest stable, Stefan presents us with a dilemma: how to present the work of someone who is the photographic equivalent of a polyglot? Whether he’s blurring the boundaries between studio fashion and still-life or shooting easy, intimate artist profiles on location somewhere, Stefan brings the same assured sense of judgement, openness to chance and obvious love for the medium to everything he does. Recent editorial and commercial clients include: Dazed & Confused, Vorn Magazine, Marcus Gaab’s I Love You Magazine, Moncler and Chewing the Sun. Click here to view his portfolios.
December 20, 2010
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Scott King: Art Works
Scott's monograph, Scott King: Art Works is now out, published by JP Ringier. To get your copy visit Cornerhouse.
December 20, 2010
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Constructivism
After weeks of planning and preparation, Sarah's latest editorial has been published in Wallpaper. With a nod to modernist abstraction her concept tied togther furniture from independent designers, artists and major interior brands with a network of coloured ribbons. Shot by Luke Kirwan.
December 20, 2010
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Jack Wills Christmas 2011
Elaine's latest campaign for Jack Wills is now out, click here to view.
December 13, 2010
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Benjamin McMahon
Benjamin took these photographs just before the student protest march began in London on the 9th December last year. Visit our Emerging Talent section for more.
November 15, 2010
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Taylor Wessing Elle Commission 2010
We are thrilled to announce that Clare Shilland has won the ELLE Commission for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 for her portrait of Merel. She took this photograph, near Merel’s home in Antwerp, for her exhibition Girls! Girls! Girls! Clare will be given the opportunity to shoot a feature story for the magazine. The photos are part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
September 15, 2010
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Jack Wills A/W 10
Jack Wills recently asked Elaine to help define their visual identity by creating images for their Autumn 2010 campaign that looked unlike anything that brand rivals were doing, while staying true to the spirit and aspirations of Jack Wills’ boy and girl. Elaine decided to effectively produce a short film, casting people for their acting abilities as much as for the way they looked, and directing them through loosely scripted scenes, in order to produce stills that felt emotionally complex and which draw the viewer into her character’s world, rather than presenting them with a 2d fashion fantasy. As well as these beautiful stills, Elaine also came away with great moving footage, which was edited into a 2 minute film for www.jackwills.com
June 15, 2010
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Halcyon Days
Gemma's psychedelic short film 'Halcyon Days' has now been published on the TEST website. To watch it click here
May 27, 2010
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Golden Eagles
Venetia joined Roy Lupton, his male golden eagle 'baby' and a small group of eagle falconry enthusiasts in Hampshire on a hunt.
May 20, 2010
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Lissie
Colombia Records recently commissioned Elaine to shoot the LP and singles campaign for their new signing Lissie, who hails from the American Mid-West and who's album Catching a Tiger is out now.
May 18, 2010
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Peace Love Mud
We are proud to announce that images from Venetia's latest book: Glastonbury - Another Stage are currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery. Released to coincide with the festival's 40th anniversary, the book is the culmination of 6 years of documentation, and features portraits of festival-goers shot in a temporary on-site studio, interspersed with landscapes and images of the event that will immediately chime with anyone who has ever attended themselves. A selection of studio portraits are exhibited at the NPG, while, at Mulberry's flagship store in New Bond Street, portraits and landscapes have been incorporated into an in-store installation celebrating the spirit of the festival under the rubric, Peace, Love, Mud and Mulberry.
March 08, 2010
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Chanel - Rouge Coco Party
Gemma collaborated with Chanel on the promotion of their new Rouge Coco lipstick range. Working with their global creative director of make-up, Peter Philips, Gemma captured a 'Rouge Coco Party' in the former apartment of Coco Chanel.
February 26, 2010
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Marni AW10
After a traumatic snow-in on the Heathrow runway Clare made it to Milan to shoot Marni's Autumn Winter 2010 Menswear lookbook. Styled by Michele Rafferty.
February 26, 2010
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Canteen Cookbook
Taking an 'unapologetically nostalgic' and original approach to the 120 British recipes, Sarah both Art Directed and Styled Canteen's first cookbook, Great British Food.
February 26, 2010
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Kurt Geiger lookbook
Working with photographer Todd Selby in the design studios of Kurt Geiger, Sarah styled the latest lookbook for their shoe collection.
February 26, 2010
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Aubin & Wills
Sarah's latest fashion venture was with photographer Tara Darby on the fantastically British Aubin and Wills AW09 lookbook.
February 26, 2010
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Centrefold Magazine
'Every Boy on the Sunset Strip' styled by David Lamb.
December 15, 2009
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Happy Christmas!
Continuing her collaboration with photographer Leandro Farina, Sarah May has created the collage settings for Radely’s fairytale Christmas campaign.
December 15, 2009
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Ilan Godfrey
Our new Emerging Talent Ilan Godfrey focused on the inhabitants of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg which has become a sanctuary for hundreds of Zimbabwean Refugees for his project ‘Sanctuary of Exile’. Click here to view the full project and other works by Ilan
November 09, 2009
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GQ Style
Clare’s story for GQ Style was shot with stylist David Lamb. The idea was to shoot denim workwear with a smart city twist. Shot within the old stone walls of the City of London starring boys Matt Hitt and Tafari Hinds.
September 30, 2009
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Roxy - Surf Anywhere
Look out for Gemma’s latest shoot, Roxy’s fall campaign Surf Anywhere, on billboards around town, celebrating the sunny days of the festival season this year.
September 30, 2009
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Camper
Sarah May teamed up with the kings of comfy footwear Camper on their Reinvent Your Reality Campaign. The shoes take on different guises spilling out of paint tins peeking out of coffee bags and masquerading as fresh oranges.
September 14, 2009
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Interlining
After her Little Break, Big Difference campaign with Eurostar in the spring Venetia has been out and about around Paris again to shoot Eurostar’s new campaign.
August 25, 2009
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Love From...
Has been published by Clare Shilland and Beth Fenton to coincide with Clare's exhibition 'Girls! Girls! Girls!'. Beautifully designed by Wood McGrath and available to buy at BStore and House of Propellers gallery.
July 20, 2009
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La Lettre ‘A’
Shot for Mexican magazine, Celeste, Gemma Booth’s story La Lettre ‘A’ is a voyeuristic view of a day in the life of mysterious French student. The photographs were taken on location in stylist Lauren Grant’s former school.
July 16, 2009
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Mexico!
Gemma Booth’s adventures in Mexico earlier this year proved highly successful. As well as shooting fashion designer Alejandra Quesada’s A/W campaign, she also took portraits of Mexico city’s most influential new creatives for i-D magazine. Not to mention a fashion story for Vanidad magazine, ‘Viva La Mexico’ with stylist Naomi Miller.
July 14, 2009
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Marni Menswear S/S10
Styled by Michele Rafferty. Clare Shilland has just returned from Milan having shot the new lookbook for Marni Menswear, Spring/Summer 2010.
June 22, 2009
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Florence
Elaine took Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine, around Islington's pubs and gardens for the band's latest press shots.
June 08, 2009
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Eurostar
Venetia Dearden boarded the train to Paris to shoot Eurostar’s latest campaign Little Break, Big Difference.
May 21, 2009
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Angel Jackson AW09
Clare Shilland follows up her highly successful ss09 look book for Angel Jackson with a new series of images for aw09. Shot in the toilets at Rochelle School, they're not so much Heroin Chic as Tippex Chic... Styling by Michele Rafferty. Model; Stacy Martin at Premier
March 19, 2009
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Up Up and Away!
Elaine was recently commissioned to shoot the launch campaign for Richard Branson’s new LA to Sydney Airline,
V Australia. Concentrating on those more playful and spontaneous interactions between the girls and the new Boeing 777, we think her images hit just the right note of elegance and relaxed informality.
March 19, 2009
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i-D Tattoo
Styled by Michelle Rafferty, Clare Shilland’s series of delicate tattoo portraits is published in this months i-D magazine.
March 06, 2009
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Angel Jackson SS09
Clare’s latest look book for Angel Jackson was so beautifully described by Nylon it leaves little more for us to say, other than that Clare not only took the pictures but came up with the concept too... It’s not that the bags themselves aren’t beautiful; on the contrary, they’re about the most tasteful display of luxe materials we’ve seen in a while…But it was the lookbook that had us smitten. Described as ‘mutiny in 1960s suburbia’ the photos are like a series of outtakes from Love in the Afternoon, where Audrey Hepburn whiles away her days in the hotel room of an American playboy.
March 06, 2009
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Diana Scherer
The subject of Diana Scherer’s photographs are chiefly people and dead animals. People become anonymous, dolls or objects which Scherer can place in any desired situation. Dead animals reverberate against settings that appear ideal for them. The series Fragments concentrates on collages of real people and picture cut outs. The compositions depict private moments in a personal setting, but genuine intimacy is disturbed by the element of contrivance. This pictorial ambiguity is a recurrent theme in Scherer’s work. Click her to visit her website.
February 25, 2009
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Kaleidoscope Eyes
From 6th March to 19th April Gemma Booth’s exhibition The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes will be showing at The Old Shoreditch Station, 1 Kingsland Road, E2. Presented by Roxy Heart, the exhibition is one part of a joint exhibition with photographer Valerie Philips. ‘Gemma’s playful and evocative photographs join the dots between fantasy and reality. Her characters inhabit a dreamlike alternative world, where rose-tinted memories mix freely with fairy tales and science fiction. Like the pages from a half-remembered storybook, her photographs offer a reminder of the pleasure of escape and the power of imagination. A treasure trove of daydreams to lose yourself in.’
February 25, 2009
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Spring Tale
Venetia Dearden shot this story for Vogue Bambini in an English country house in her beloved Somerset. The photographs display the same gentle intimacy that characterises her personal work.
November 26, 2008
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David Mlinaric
Founder of the international interior design practice Mlinaric, Henry and Zervudachi, David Mlinaric is famous for some of the most successful restorations of great English interiors. In her natural and relaxed style Venetia Dearden photographed the London-based interior designer enjoying a sunny afternoon in London’s Ranelagh Gardens for W Magazine.
November 05, 2008
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Somerset Stories
Venetia Dearden’s book Somerset Stories: Fivepenny Dreams is an intimate portrait of the county she grew up in and the people who live there. To order a copy please email mail@venetiadearden.com
October 29, 2008
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Computer Love
Drawing inspiration from 70s B movies, E.T and images of robots from eras gone by, our robot was conceived over a period of weeks in a bedroom in Walthamstow, then shipped to the jungle, where he eventually took on a life of his own. Robot by Sarah May. Styling by Polly Banks.
October 29, 2008
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Very Elle
“I shot Dree Hemingway for Parisian Magazine, Very Elle, as she has two films coming out: ‘My Suicide’ and ‘The Truth About Angels’. I was very excited to be asked as I’m a big fan
of her great-grandfather. We didn't get to talk about him though. It’s supposed to look very English. I think it does… English and pretty.”
October 29, 2008
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Fuck Art Let’s Dance
Elaine shot these fashion portraits for Let Them Eat Cake Magazine after they interviewed her for their latest issue. It was a chance to shoot real people on the dance floor, caught in a moment of complete abandon. “I wanted to do something that felt raw and emotional. High-end fashion magazines just wouldn’t publish something like this nowadays; which shows how far things have changed since the 90s.” A selection of these images have been chosen for inclusion in the group show Traumfrauen: Beauty in the 21st Century, currently showing at the House of Photography in Hamburg.
October 28, 2008
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Santucci & Co. Launch
After months in the making our new website is finally up and running. Designed by YES, the remit for the new site was to give as much space over to the artwork as possible, while making it faster to use and navigate than the previous site. You’ll notice other changes too. With the new site and a change of company name comes an expanded roster of artists. Photographers Tomo Brejc, Venetia Dearden and Clare Shilland have all joined the agency, along with set designer Sarah May.
Photographer
With pre-production on her forthcoming feature film Northern Soul gathering pace, Elaine still manages to find time to shoot commercial stills and film for clients such as Jack Wills and American Eagle Outfitters Inc; recent advances in technology allowing her to effectively close the gap between directing and taking photographs. We represent Elaine for both still and moving image work. Elaine is based in London. For comprehensive information on Elaine's books and exhibitions please contact us.
Photographer
Gemma continues to develop her unique approach to shooting women and fashion through editorial and commercial commissions for a global client list.
Playful, feminine, an irreverent antidote
to the self-regarding earnestness of so
much contemporary fashion photography, her images have featured in campaigns and pages for Chanel, Paul Smith, Aerie and
i-D, to name a few. In addition to still photography, Gemma has been busy developing fashion film ideas (which you
can now view on our site), adding another dimension to her growing portfolio of work. Gemma is based out of London.
Photographer
Venetia is currently finishing off two new photo projects that we’re getting quite excited about here. The first is Mulberry’s 40th Anniversary Book, for which she has been shooting for over a year now. The book contains hundreds of Venetia's photographs, comprising portraits and documentary images in both colour and black & white, that together amount to a year in the life of Mulberry the brand, taking in the seasonal climax of the fashion shows as well as the more day to day rhythms of work in and around the Somerset factory. The second, more personal, project chronicles the adventures of a group of friends on their journey to the Burning Man festival from Los Angeles. Intimate and impressionistic, the work marks a further development in Venetia's approach as a photographer of people and landscapes.
Artist Commissions
With the recent publication of his monograph Scott King: Art Works and the decision to resurrect CRASH! along with writing partner Matthew Worley, Scott's diverse, idiosyncratic body of work has been receiving renewed critical interest. Spanning magazine design, anecdotal writings and conceptual, graphic abstractions, his practice crosses back and forth between design and art. Drawing on political imagery, his work often throws light onto the way once meaningful words and images have become hollowed out and appropriated by the market. The latest incarnation of CRASH!, subtitled A BETTER BRITAIN, hilariously burlesques recent political attempts to co-opt the arts into the ideological project of curing 'Broken Britain'. Reflecting the hybrid nature of his output, Scott's career takes in art direction and design for i-D, Sleazenation, Roisin Murphy and Michael Clark along with solo and group shows at the ICA, KM Munich and MoMA. We are very proud to represent Scott for artist commissions.
Set Design
As much at home when folding origami humming birds as when dressing an entire barn in Hertfordshire, Sarah May has had a busy year, creating custom art cars, hand made props and surrealist tableaux for a host commercial and editorial clients, including Wallpaper, Radley, Camper, Jack Wills and Kurt Geiger. It seems almost superfluous to say anything else really... her folios speak eloquently enough for themselves. Suffice to say, we like having Sarah around the agency, as much for the laughs as for the cleverness of her ideas. Sarah resides in Walthamstow, London.
Photographer
Clare’s recent forays into moving image have been featured on Jaime Perlman's TEST webmag and mark an exciting new departure for her. She continues to explore the links between fashion and portraiture in her editorial work for magazine's such as Lula, The Gentlewoman and GQ Style, commissions for fashion house Marni as well as her personal Love From collaborations with stylist Beth Fenton and graphic designers Wood Mcgrath, issue 2 of which is out now. Clare is based in London.
Photographer
A new addition to our modest stable, Stefan presents us with a dilemma: how to present the work of someone who is the photographic equivalent of a polyglot? Whether he's blurring the boundaries between studio fashion and still-life or shooting easy, intimate artist profiles on location somewhere, Stefan brings the same assured sense of judgement, openness to chance and obvious love for the medium to everything he does. A nice dilemma to have. We hope our folios have done him justice. Recent editorial and commercial clients include: Dazed & Confused, Vorn Magazine, Marcus Gaab’s I Love You Magazine, Moncler and Chewing The Sun. Not to be outdone, Stefan too has been working with Red One and Canon moving image technology with great success. Stefan is based out of Berlin and London.
Artist Commissions
On a business trip to Tokyo in 2001, Elaine and I found time to visit a photo bookshop one afternoon. There we stumbled across a startling collection of images taken by a then relatively unknown (outside of Japan at least) photographer. The book was Utatane and it's poetic invocation of the daily rhythms of life and death in Japan, told through an enthralled focus on details often overlooked, interspersed with fleeting impressions of the world around her, had a lasting effect. It felt like being confronted with an entirely new photographic language, at a time when it really did seem as though everything that could be said with a camera had already been said. Ten years on, and many books and shows later, we are proud to announce that we now represent Rinko Kawauchi for artist commissions. She is based in Tokyo. For more details please call our office.
Photographer
After studying photography in Munich, Billie came to London and began assisting photographers such as Nick Knight and David Slijper. The exacting standards of her early apprenticeship are evident in the subtlety of her lighting, skin tones and colours. The seductive simplicity of her photographs was another thing that drew us to her beauty work, but perhaps more than all this, it was the way she art-directs her subjects. These are portraits of women, for women by a woman, and a gentle empathy shines through in the way her subjects often appear caught in a moment of self-absorption. Billie has shot for POP, Sunday Times Style and Vanity Fair amongst others and is based in London.