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Harrods At the invitation of Harrods, the world's most famous corner shop, Seamus will be recreating his Sunday Shoots for a six week period starting on September 14th. These shoots are part of a major promotion called 'That's Entertainment' in which visitors to the store get to experience all the glitz and glamour of stage and screen. It is a hugely ambitious project involving among others West End musicals, film screenings, tea dances, and art exhibitions. To find out more please click here: http://www.harrodsthatsentertainment.com Hope you can make it along. These are the shoots that have been planned: 14th September, 1-4pm: Windswept and Interesting |  |
Viktor & Rolf Fashion design duo Viktor & Rolf (and Seamus) jostled for space at a packed Barbican Art Gallery for this special fashion beauty shoot. Using the Sunday Shoots concept visitors to the gallery were invited to take part. After a touch up from acclaimed make up artists Beauty Base the 'beautiful people' enthusiastically joined in.The evening, organised by the vivacious Helen O'Gorman and her wonderful team was a huge success attracting no less than 750 fashionistas. |  |
Faithful departed Multitasking all round super girl Emma Whitlock has sadly left us for pastures new. Emma was a vital part of Sunday Shoots and Boothnation from the outset and used her considerable skills and Kiwi charm to keep a fleet of ships afloat at once. This often involved long hours and lost weekends, a burden she bore with her trade mark good humour. We wish her great success in her new ventures and thank her for all her commitment, creativity, and life-affirming vitality. Go for it, girl! |  |
Raindrops Rewarded A big thank you to Daryl, a Sunday Shoot visitor, for taking part in last year's 'An English Summer' project. His rainswept portrait has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Association of Photographers Awards 2008. Of over 4000 images submitted by members only 316 made it through to final show. To see all the selected images follow this link www.the-awards.com |  |
Sunday Shoots, The Movie Now showing on uber hip Current TV is a short documentary film on Seamus' Sunday Shoots. Talented film makers Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull have created an atmospheric piece entitled 'How to be a Sunday model'. Seamus is reported to be delighted, if a little embarrassed by all the attention. You can see the clip by following this link http://current.com/items/88803180_be_a_sunday_model. Do please leave a comment on their site. |  |
A star is born When Irish advertising agency CawleyNea TBWA were in search of the true face of boredom for their recent Entertainment.ie campaign they used the Sunday Shoots website as a casting resource. Hidden away in last year’s 'Roto Foto' project was the beautiful and spirited Eva Kiivit who unwittingly possessed a hidden talent for acting and, in particular, looking really, really bored. Shot by Seamus and art directed by Mark Black the poster campaign ran all over Ireland. Eva is rumoured to be working on a number of other expressions including mildly displeased and the elusive 'blue steel'. |  |
Famous Seamus Sunday Shoots were the subject of a nice feature in thelondonpaper on October 23rd. With a readership of over 700,000 londoners, we are expecting an invasion of new visitors over the coming weeks. Thanks to freelance journalist Retna Wooller for stumbling upon us and getting the word out there. To read the full article click here. |  |
AOP Open Competition We're in! We are pleased to announce that two Sunday Shoots images have been selected for the prestigious Association of Photographers Open competition. The chosen images are: 'Silhouette Landscape' (right) which features over 40 of our Sunday Shoot visitors in a scene reminiscent of a London park on a fine day and 'Tom Stoppard' (see below); a portrait of the wonderful playwright Tom Stoppard who called into our 'Sitting' Sunday Shoot project, instinctively dressed for the part! More information on both of these pieces can be found in news items below. You can view the selected AOP Open entries at http://www.aop-open.com |  |
Tom Stoppard's 'The Sitting' portrait One of the many participants to grace our recent project The Sitting was famous playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. Seamus had constructed a rough set from weathered plywood and borrowed his landlord's chair (found in the 1960's in a Welsh mini cab office) to create a space for visitors to occupy. The idea was to create a movie where the chair never moves but its sitters are constantly changing. Not only did Sir Tom enter into the spirit of the portrait project he seemed to have dressed that day with the set in mind, right down to his shoe laces. The resulting image has since been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery as part of its permanent collection. It now hangs in the July Acquisitions section of the gallery. Sir Tom, who has just celebrated his seventieth birthday, made history at the recent Tony Awards where his nine hour trilogy The Coast of Utopia won a record seven awards. |  |
Sunday Shoots 'Silhouettes' project Following his Sunday Shoots Silhouettes project, Seamus camre up with the idea of combining a number of the individual images into one composite landscape, reflecting the diversity and individuality of a London park on a nice day. You may have already seen this image on our Home page. Digital Photo Pro Magazine were so taken by the originality of the resulting image that they dedicated an entire article in their June, 2007 issue to discussing how it was conceived and contructed. You can read the article here. |  |
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