Nick Ballon for Mother "tweet 140 characters over a week"
Mother has invited Nick Ballon to spend next week embedded in the agency’s Shoreditch office recording a week in the life of Mother.
As well a providing a snapshot of Mother at a particular moment, the aim of the week is to photograph 140 ‘characters’ at Mother – people, objects, interiors – and tweet these images to Mother’s 8,000-plus Twitter followers. At the same time, a Tumblr blog is being set up to host the photos, which will also be shown on Mother’s website.
Nick will be given an access-all-areas pass to the agency to give a glimpse of what Mother is like from cleaners to strategists, partners to delivery men and couriers to retouchers. Nick will be working with prop stylist Sarah Parker to produce a striking and sometimes surreal series behind the scenes of the agency.
Mark Waites, partner, Mother said: “Mother has always connected to artists and creators well beyond the advertising industry, so we’re super excited that Nick is going to be spending a week with us.
“It might be seen by some as an act of vanity, but people tend to photograph the things that they love and want to remember. That reflects how we feel about our colleagues and our workplace, and Nick’s images are sure to become a treasured part of the Mother archive.”
There are plans for images from the project to be shown at an exhibition later this year’
Nick Ballon backstage at Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' for ADAC Magazine
Nick BALLON was commissioned by the German ADAC travel magazine to shoot an editorial behind the scenes of ‘The Mousetrap’ theatre production in London. It is the world’s longest running play and several traditions had to be overcome thanks to powers of persuasion, so that Nick was finally able to access backstage areas.
The Berlin and London-based photographer’s picture aesthetic is grounded in attention to detail, his focus and unique visual language are reflected in all his areas of photography, from documentary, editorial and commercial.
Nick Ballon for Time Out Magazine
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Nick Ballon guardian weekend magazine cover
Nick Ballon for CR October Issue
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Nick Ballon was commissioned for the Dutch footwear brand Shoo. The images were published in a beautiful, large-format mood book recently. The large-scale book certainly offers the perfect canvas for these conceptionally composed and obscured images. The viewer at first feels that he is stepping into a theatrical world of dance and performance before realising that the main character is nothing but a shoe.
