When Versace reposted our shoot!

 

TBT: We did a cover shoot for Runway magazine, with my favourite team led by Dino Busch (photographer), Bhisan (stylist) and Yana (super duper model). There were two amazing shots that Dino took with a full Versace look that went viral online - before the term was popularised in the vernacular. 

Oct 2018

Behind the scenes of a shoot

Model, assistants and a half-dead photographer. He got food poisoned the night before shoot - and still completed the job. Committed. Well, he should have been committed! ;0)

 

My photographer Dino Busch

While testing light and frame, I shot my photographer Dino Busch. This guy. Das is gut ja? 

See his official web site for his portfolio at https://dinobusch.com/

And his infrequently updated social media account: https://www.instagram.com/dinobuschphotography/

Infrequent as he, like a handful of other photographers, has read the fine print of Instagram and knows better than to post every image online for free public consumption....  

Behind the Scenes: Magazine cover shoot

The crew behind Lifestyle's cover shoot. My last cover shoot with my dream team.

Outtakes from a shoot with Jessica Jann and Claudie Pierlot

Outtake of shots from shooting Jessica Jann for the magazine. Colour testing... we picked none of the above for print btw.

And with my fav team below.

Photography Dino Busch 
Hair and Make-up Reve Ryu 
Hair and Make-up Assistant Jojo Cheng 
Wardrobe and Accessories Claudie Pierlot


  

Lifestyle 2019 by Prestige Hong Kong

 

It's here! On sale in newsstands for the rest of the year, the annual tome published by Prestige Hong Kong. 

Worked with Dino Busch for the cover shoot (three years in a row with Olivier before) as Dino - Jess - and I all started working together x years ago and we are a trio that cannot be broken! lol. Have to say its one of my fav Lifestyle covers... EVER. Apart from looking great on newsstands everywhere (for the whole year! woot woot!), the entire team involved was so great that pulled it all together. 

 

My Editor's page - which people generally skip over - below! 

Glad Tidings

The volume you’re holding is an annual accompaniment to Prestige magazine, a new-year tome that is now a decade old. By the time we collate these pages it seems more than apposite for our editors to reflect on the year gone by, and as such we review here for you the best society events of 2018 (page 20) featuring the year’s most fabulous parties, and we present the finest hotels, bars, restaurants and spas sampled by our roster of wordsmiths (“The A List”, page 92). Our penultimate page is a tongue-in-chic recap of the year’s pop culture and celebrity antics (“That Was 2018…”, page 104), putting a humorous cap on the Year of the Dog as we step into the auspicious Year of the Pig. 

According to my feng shui mistress Thierry Chow (what, you don’t have one?) it’s a year of good fortune and luck as the Pig occupies the last (12th) position in the Chinese zodiac. And good fortune and luck is just what we wish our young and gorgeous cover stars, actress Jessica Jann and entrepreneur Kenneth King, as they embark on a lifelong journey together as a newly married couple. The day this magazine comes hurtling out of our printer’s vans and on to newsstands, the duo will be walking down the aisle – and we couldn’t be happier for them. Months ago, as they recounted their romantic journey, smiling and gazing into each other’s eyes – even when our photographer didn’t instruct them to – we got a little misty for young love and new beginnings. Our jaded, crusty and calcified heart skipped a beat – and I’m sure yours will too.

Have a prosperous and productive new year – according to the stars aligned, it’s a great one for making and investing money. We wish thee glad tidings dear reader, glad tidings indeed.   

P. Ramakrishnan

Editor

The entire cover story and shoot is up at PrestigeOnline.com

Aaaaaand its a wrap...

After the longest, hottest day of the year, where we shot Fall/Winter 2018 in the streets, studio and stations [you'll see!] of balmy Hong Kong, this incredible crew did the most amazing cover shoot for Runway, by Prestige Hong Kong.

That's relief and exhaustion and joy of a job well done. Photographer Dino Busch, stylist Bhisan Rai, model Yana Vilkina....  joyful to work with.

Back in 2008, after a particularly horrific shoot working with one of the b****iest stylist known to mankind, had a self-imposed rule of only working with fun, kind, generous and talented people.

This lot are not only gifted, but the loveliest to work with.

Until next time/shoot/on set lols...


Rama

Waiting on Set... with Dino Busch

Since I started working with Dino Busch, who is very Type A meticulous (and German), he lands early on set, is prepared and ready to kick off on time, every time. However, 90% of the people we have shot (when its not fashion) have been late on set. I think our record thumb-twiddling once was four hours as the person we were doing a feature on missed a boat or flight or something....

So while we wait, the crew gets up to their own little antics and posing. Not for the faint of heart his biz...

Bow Wow: Shooting dancer David Klar

Bow wow

Truth be told, the main reason we stalked David Klar’s Instagram (@davidjklar) has nothing to do with him or his proficiency as a dancer. He has one of the most beautiful Samoyed dogs we’ve ever seen – a white ball of fluffiness that strikes poses as adeptly as his master. When pressed, Klar promised to bring along Parco – the Siberian Samoyed, who was a rescue – to the shoot. “People pay thousands of dollars for dogs like him – and I found him in a kennel, a small dirty, playful little thing,” he recollects. “With a lot of TLC (and frequent trips to the groomers) he’s just the best bloke.” At our ghetto-fab makeshift studio in the street, he was also the best behaved. The same cannot be said of this crew. 

See the feature here at PrestigeOnline

Sophisticated Sisters: My Place magazine shoot: 2016

Cover shoot for My Place magazine.

With photographer Dino Busch, styled by Bhisan Rai with hair and make-up by Natasha Moor. Models, Linda Markova and Ana C.

Location, all around Pacific Place, Hong Kong.

Ana C - easily my favourite model in Asia. So stunning, so versatile and such a kind person. Linda... er... well, Linda's Linda. If you know... YOU know! #aggressivenutjob