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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Vision Nomade & Riad Amina

We had a new experience working with Pierre from Vision Nomade who asked Alan to be his creative lighting director on a recent commission for Riad Amina. It certianly made a change to be working on moving images rather than our usual still ones! You can see the final film by clicking here.

Riad Art Expo 2010

Are you going to Riad Art Expo at the Palais de Congres in Marrakech? If so be sure not miss Alan's stunning photos of Yahya Creation's lights at their awesome stand. Also while you are there take a look at the Kaftan Queen stand next door; some very cool clothes and a beautiful Yahya designed belt.

Just Weddings Magazine

Congratulations to John Cole, whose fantastic Moroccan wedding photography is being showcased with a special two feature spread in "Just Weddings Magazine". To see the magazine online click here otherwise get out now to your local newsagent before the copies all sell out!

We think this special issue is a must for anyone planning a wedding in Morocco!

Friday, 12 March 2010

Joanna Bristow Jewellery

Joanna Bristow's jewellery website is slowly taking shape thanks mostly to Martin Dady's talents as a website designer and builder. We've also been busy taking new photos for the site including this still life of a jewellery display.

Yahya Creation 2

We've also been continuing with our collaboration with Yahya Creation in preparation for the Riad Art Expo in Marrakech on the 30th of March. Here are a couple of samples of the kind of thing we've been doing.

M'Barek Bouhchichi at Galerie Rê

M'Barek Bouhchichi's new exhibtion opened at the Galerie Rêon 5th Mars. M'Barek is one of Morocco's leading young abstract painters and Still Images are very proud that we called on to do his catalogue. Above are couple of details we took of his fabulous paintings.

Pacha Marrakech

The Pacha Marrakech have published their stylish new brochure and included some of the new photos that we have done for the Crystal hotel and Rose Bar.

Saturday, 20 February 2010

Kasbah Bab Ourika

Kasbah Bab Ourika have also recently launched their new website making much better use of Alan's photography than the old one. The new site really shows off the stunning location of the hotel.

Les Terres Mbarka

Congratulations to Jerôme on the new website for his hotel Les Terres Mbarka. It has been a real joy for Alan Keohane and Still Images to participate in producing the photography.We love the design by Marco at Captain Studios.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Panoramas

One of the things Still Images is pretty good at is super high resolution panoramic composites made up from dozens of high res images. The original top image is a staggering 3.4m long at 300dpi and is made up of almost 50 images. It is so detailed that you can see people in the fields and villages all across the valley.

Liviani Jewellery

Part of our work for Gold and Coffee, the new Italian jewellery store in Marrakech, was to take a series of photographs of Liviani's designs with a Moroccan atmosphere. Not so easy when the pieces are no larger than a thumbnail. Above is a couple of examples of how we did it using tiny stage sets and creative lighting.

Françoise Atlan

We are fortunate that the world renowned Sephardic singer, Françoise Atlan, lives in Marrakech. One of our more glamorous recents jobs has been to do a series of new publicity portraits of Françoise ahead of her Canadian Tour in March. The top two photos were done in our studio while the bottom two shots were taken in the equally glamorous Mamounia, where Françoise has sung on numerous occasions.

Labels: Françoise Atlan

Terres Mbarka

We've also been back to Terres Mbarka to take the last atmosphere photos for their new website that will be launched shortly.

Gold and Coffee

During January we have not just been getting up in the predawn and dashing around taking new landscape photographs for our clients. We have also been going to the other extreme and doing some very fine studio work. One of our new clients is the Italian owned Gold and Coffee shop in Marrakech. This is a new print advert we shot for them. It is due to come out in the February issue of "Tribune de Marrakech". We've also been doing some very original shots for their new brochure which will be featuring soon on the blog.

Labels: Gold and Coffee Jewellery

Kasbah Bab Ourika

After the new year we finally got some snow on the mountains. It was a busy time for us taking new landscapes photos. Here are some new shots of the Kasbah Bab Ourika and its stunning location.

Labels: Kasbah Bab Ourika

Monday, 18 January 2010

Vision Nomade

Our video partners, Vision Nomade have sent out a very cool New Year Video that you can see here.

Our very best wishes to Pierre & Sandrine!

Monique Bresson Website

Congratulations to Monqiue Bresson on finally getting the first part of her new website online. Mostly monochrome the website makes great use of Alan's photos and designers Kasbah Numérik carry through the photographic style into the website design.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Olive Oil

It is the height of olive picking season here in Marrakech and we've just been to our local olive press to collect our oil. We have a few trees in the garden and have a miniscule production of around 30 litres of oil. Nothing compared to our neighbours but enough for domestic use.

Above is a little reportage of the process. Before crushing the olives they mix them with lemon, thyme and salt to enhance the flavour of the oil.

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Happy New Year

The Mamounia had us come back to photograph their beautiful festive decorations; gold painted olive branches and orange fairy lights. We particularly liked the reflections in the marble floors and the delicate clear glass balls.

Here's wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2010 from the Still Images team.

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Pure Riads

Another very pleasant recent job has been to photograph the new addition to Pure Riads.

Terres Mbarka

We went back to Terres Mbarka earlier this month to do some more photos. We rather like this one of the hotel showin its situation out in the Agafay Desert at the foot of the mountains. Now that we've finally had some snow it will be time to put on the winter woollies and get back out there at dawn!

Photo Sketches

Alan trained as a fine art printmaker at UCW Aberystwyth under Alistair Crawford before going on to become a photographer. As such he has always been as interested in the printing of photographs as the taking of pictures and really doesn't believe a photo is finished until it is printed.

Alan is constantly experimenting with diferent ways to print his photos, diferent inks & papers and also diferent ways to actually make the image in the camera and in Photoshop. Above are a couple of examples of what we like to call "photo sketches". The idea is to introduce some sort of spontaniety and chance into the rigorous logical world of photoshop and allow for the possibility of accident playing a part in the image making process. It's also a bit of fun.

Atika & Keamo Adverts

The Atika and Keamo adverts have come out in the holiday shopping supplement of the "Tribune de Marrakech" magazine with Alan's photographs of their shoes. We really like the bright and colourful layout that Kasbah Numérik have come up with.

Monday, 23 November 2009

Kasbah Bab Ourika in the FT

We are delighted that The Financial Times decided to print two of our photos of Kasbah Bab Ourika in their "Christmas Unwrapped" special issue of their "How to Spend It" weekend magazine. The magazine is a huge vertical A3 format so the double page image is a massive A2. That is 420 X 594mm!

Labels: Bab Ourika, Financial Times, FT, How to Spend It

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Kenzi Menara Palace

The Kenzi Menara Palace has finally launched its long awaited advertising campaign with this photo of Safaa by Alan Keohane. The adverts were designed by Florence Mottet and Nicholas Carré from the Light Gallery in Marrakech.

Les Terres M'Barka

Still Images has been collaborating with Florence Mottet at Asmala to launch the new country hideaway hotel Terres M'Barka owned by Belgian restauranteur Jerome de Brouwer.

Paris PHOTO 19-22 November

Galerie 127 will be showcasing photographers in Morocco at Paris PHOTO 19-22 November and will be showing a portfolio of Alan Keohane's new prints including this shot of Malika wearing an Ait Hadidou handira. The show will be at the "Carrousel du Louvre" and the gallery will be on stand D34 in the Salle Soufflot.

Still Images is North Africa's leading professional photography company. The company was founded by British photographer Alan Keohane who has been resident in Marrakech since 1993. As well as being an accomplished commercial photographer, Alan is also author of the books "Berbers of Morocco" (1991) and "Bedouin Nomads of the Desert" (1994). Still Images Marrakech Morocco Tel +212 524 44 62 66 Fax +212 524 42 04 78 contact@still-images.net

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