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An Illuminated Exploration Of a Vivid Childhood Fantasy - COOPH - Cooperative of Photography

Explore Nick Rochowski’s Liminal Points Project...

A recent feature on Liminal Points with Cooph.com

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Brutalist VII selection featured on @kinfolk in @debikaray interview with @barnabascalder #resurrectionofcoldarchitecture #brutalist #architecture #concrete #lasdun #cambridge #university #architect #project #photography #shapes #lines #surfaces #abstract #visualplay #fitzwilliamcollege love the new site design @madebysix

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Aerospace Materials Studies, Series 1

Now live on the website.

This still life photographic project looks at the intersection between science technologies and fiction in the testing and documentation of aerospace materials. Drifting between fact and illusion, the work is heavily influenced by recent on-line broadcasts of SpaceX launches and testing, Mars Curiosity Rover, the Rosetta Probe and the current orbiting of Jupiter with the Juno satellite. Not since the NASA Space Shuttle has there been such a vivid image of real space travel. This merging of fact and fiction resonates with the visual language 20th century science fiction in film, animation and literature.

The first series of images in this project look at the some of the core materials used in the aerospace industries. Key defining characteristics are strength, weight, flexibility, temperature resistance, and financial cost, with each playing a part in how they are used. The gradual distillation of these technologies has allowed them to be used in applications far beyond their first intended use and indeed they have become more readily available to the end consumer. With this movement there have been more and more groups of people able to develop their own space bound rockets. An evolution of this is broader groups able to combine resources and develop rockets for the growing micro-satellite markets.

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A small snippet of some exhibition photography from the past few years as part of a pitch last week. 

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Preview - Brutalist VIII, 2016

It’s been a busy first quarter of the year.

The past month or so I’ve finally had time to research and start shooting a couple of projects I’ve been looking at for a while.

The first is Brutalist VIII which is currently is now in the editing phase, this image is pleasing me quite a bit at the moment. It references back to the shots from the Institute of Education, but this new shoot is quite different in fact. I don’t know if this shot will stay in the final edit, but for now it’s in. I’m looking forward to completing this work in a few weeks.

The second project is the studio based series called Materials Study. This 3rd part is more focussed now, rather than looking at things close to hand, and is an evolution of that original testing phase. Materials Study #3 will be shot over a longer period.

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Recent commercial interior projects:

Shooting with the design community means that my work moves between the studio and on location. We create these images for editorial, advertising/marketing and portfolio uses.

Over the past months I’ve built relationships with many wonderful new clients and had the opportunity to capture their finest work. It’s a great privilege.

The next year will reveal lots more of these collaborations.

Check the updated interiors section on the website now!

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Insular in the press:

Featured in the December edition of the British Journal of Photography and Photomonitor. Thanks to all for the support.

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Insular - a new project by Nick Rochowski, Tim Bowditch and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

The website-based installation is now live! Photomonitor is running a feature on the project this month and you can find out more about that here

Supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission

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A proof of concept image that Art Director Kajsa Soderlund and I were commissioned to do around this time last year. The scale of the overall project was pretty epic and it unfortunately didn’t happen in the end, but we did come away with this super shot. Each still life image was related to a specific location, this first one being Columbia Road Flower Market.

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Elle Decoration UK christmas cover 2015

Out today, my debut cover for Elle Decoration!

Working with the super talented Kyla McCallum of Foldability and Art Director Tony Peters, we created a winter luxe still life. Kyla hand made the 50 or so origami snow flakes and the Elle Decoration masthead and we shot it all in one take. Perfect precision indeed and a fantastic team effort. Thanks too to my assistant Andy Price.

Depending on if you are a subscriber or buying off the shelf, you will either get the interior shoot combo version or the pure white version.

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Lots Road Power Station #2

I’m preparing for a presentation next week and coming across some other shots I took in this place a few years back. The scale is just insane, I wonder how it will translate to the residential quarter it is to become.

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Editorial commission for Disegno magazine, issue number 9 (out now)

3D printed accessories from the Belgian brand Honest By. I shot 3 pages for the latest issue, each approached quite differently and focusing on a recently announced or released design object.

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Naomi Paul - Simple Shades

With quite a few recent shoots to post about, I will be putting some up here over the coming days.

A beautiful shot here of Naomi’s new collection made in association with the Campaign for Wool and launched at Decorex 2015 during the London Design Festival last month.

Thanks to Lina at Mint London for loaning the Mel Smillow chair and cork stool.

Set design Naomi Paul

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I did a lovely shoot for a great new juice blender in Covent Garden called Blend & Press a few months back. Working with Studio 91 in collaboration with Art Director Kajsa Soderlund, we set about creating a couple of vivid graphic images for their in-store displays, menus and bags. Here’s what the studio had to say in their PR for the project:

“This new photographic element to our identity perfectly encapsulates our core offerings and values: sexy and sophisticated juices with a fashionable twist,” says Emma Wood, owner and founder at Blend & Press

“Excited by the unique characteristics and colours of the raw ingredients used by Emma at Blend & Press, Nick and Kajsa set out to create a diptych of serene fruit and vegetable "island" sets. Using the natural shapes of these objects paired with cut forms, the ever playful and visually graphic images reveal subtle interactions and reflections between the objects the more the viewer studies.”

I love the design work by Studio 91 here. I’m always excited to to see how imagery and typography work together in editorial inspired layouts like this, it brings back memories of when I studied graphic design at the LCC in E&C.

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Brutalist VII

I had the pleasure of spending time at Denys Lasdun’s Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge in July. It is somewhere I have been thinking about shooting as part of my Brutalist series for some time. The Central Building defines the formation of the grounds in many ways. There is a stark yet harmonised juxtaposition between the building and verdant gardens and flora. The main room looks out to the sky and tree tops, framing your viewpoints.

As with much of this ongoing series I’m drawn to repeated shapes, intangible spaces and textural details.

The work is now on the website

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Editing Brutalist VII. Some nice combinations appearing.

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Solomon & Wu 2015

I once again had the pleasure of working with Solomon & Wu in the studio the other week. They create vivid, bespoke architectural elements and furniture for the likes of Alexander McQueen, David Collins Studio, Gensler and Harrods. Here I’ve shot some their new product ranges called Polygon and Minimal and also their custom metal surfaces. The brief is always completely open and creative.

S&W often combine a constructed process with inspiration from natural elements so for the panels I wanted them to appear like a monolithic gateway that was formed from these two pillars of their work. The “surrealist moon surface and night sky” for the products played off their elegant, gravity defying designs.

This is an ongoing collaboration.