This year’s Cambridge University Jewish Ball was themed on the board game “Cluedo”, and held at the most appropriate venue possible, “Anstey Hall”, just south of Cambridge.
The Ball Committee
Survivors’ Photo
Signatures Dance Show Publicity Design
Having taken photos of several dance silhouettes, I was able to put together the poster and flyer designs for this year’s CUCDW dance show at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge.
Poster Design
Back of Flyer Design
Light Matter – Cambridge 800th Gala Dance Show
After months of planning and rehearsals, the Cambridge Contemporary Dance company staged their uniquely-located gala dance show, celebrating Cambridge University’s 800th anniversary year. The show took place in the university’s Senate House, and included several dance pieces choreographed and performed by the CCD dancers, as well as contributions from other artists.
I’d taken the publicity photographs for the show, which were published on the front cover of Cambridge’s Agenda magazine.
Many more photos from the dance show can be viewed at CantabPhotos
Dance Photo on Cover of Cambridge Agenda Magazine
Several images from my recent publicity photoshoots with the Cambridge Contemporary Dance company have been used in a magazine article about the forthcoming Senate House show, and one of the most striking images was selected as the cover image for this month’s issue of Cambridgeshire Agenda.
You can view more images from the two shoots (photoshoot 1, photoshoot 2, image used for flyer/poster, final composite image), or download a copy of the article in PDF format.
Download a PDF of the article (960kb)
Dance show publicity photoshoot
I’ve been photographing and designing the publicity for Cambridge’s largest dance show for several years now, and was again asked to create some images for the forthcoming CUCDW dance show at the ADC theatre in January 2010.
The three producers of the show are all great dancers, so modelled for the publicity photos. I’d wanted to photograph them for a while, and wasn’t disappointed in the results.
Given the show’s title “Signatures”, we had an idea of capturing silhouettes of signature moves from various dance styles. The following is the main image chosen for the publicity.
This main image (and others from this shoot) were combined for the final poster design . Of course I’m not one to waste an opportunity to photograph such beautiful and talented dancers, so here are a few more photos taken during the rest of the shoot.
Cambridge Interfaith Lecture
I was commissioned to photograph an important lecture at the Faculty of Divinity’s Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, which was followed by the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the University, and the Sultan of Oman.
Photoshoot with Vesna & Paul
Paul and Vesna are without a doubt Cambridge University’s most successful ballroom & latin dancers. Having seen the results of my recent photoshoot with Samantha, one of their Dancesport friends, Paul commissioned a photoshoot for Vesna. The gardens, backs, and bridges of St. John’s are still my favourite location for photoshoots, and both Paul and Vesna were very photogenic. Expect another photoshoot with them soon…
Oi Va Voi in concert at The Junction, Cambridge
I had the privilege, yet again, of photographing Oi Va Voi at their Cambridge gig, kicking off the UK Tour for their third album, Travelling the Face of the Globe.
Oi Va Voi returned to the Cambridge Junction touring for their third album, Travelling The Face Of The Globe. Since the last time I photographed them in 2007, their female violinist and bassist have changed again, but the band sounded as great as ever, if not better.
While they get through violinists at a rate of knots, they’re all very photogenic, full of energy, and very gifted. Just like the rest of the band.
Again, they were supported by the jazzy and very funky grooves of Gil Karpas (see photos of Gil’s set on CantabPhotos).
More Oi Va Voi photos from the Cambridge 2009 gig can be viewed on CantabPhotos.
Steve Levi, Clarinet & Vocals
Anna Phoebe, Vixen of Violin
Bridgette Amofah, lead vocals
The band: Nick Ammar, Josh Breslaw, Anna Phoebe, Bridgette Amofah, Steve Levi, Lucy Shaw, David Orchant
Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme – Headshots
I was commissioned to take new headshots for the team at the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme. The director was keen to get some photos at the front of the Divinity School, as the entrance doors are decorated with writings in various faiths’ scripts.
Light Matter – Final Composite Image
At the end of the second CCD photoshoot, I took turns with each dancer to get shots of them leaping in different poses and places, with the idea of putting together a specific image that I had in mind. I was hoping to play on two meanings of the word “Light”, in the dance show’s title.
Firstly, the dancers are depicted as light things, as they float in mid-air.
Secondly, I thought of a prism splitting white light into its constituent spectrum colours.
As always, I’m indebted to my dancer muses for providing me with the opportunity (and their talents) to create more works of art that I can be proud of.