Taxonomy: MA + Group

Bureau Cool is a boutique design studio, bringing together aesthetics, animation and code to create mesmerising experiences. With expertise in creative direction, digital design, animation and interaction, Bureau Cool blend a distinct visual language with emerging technologies to create unseen pleasures that feel good, blurring the digital world with the real.

Camilla Akrans was born in Sweden and her Scandinavian roots are evident in her work. The pure, pared backed imagery is centered in femininity, graphic lines, flawless craftsmanship and understated elegance.
As a woman in a male dominated industry, she has maintained her distinctive vision and thrived. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, from Sweden to Spain, the United States, Italy, Britain and China, among other countries.
In her own words: “I’m trying to depict a thought. I portray women the way that I myself would like to be perceived. I want to be seen in every aspect of my being. The beautiful as well as the thorny, and the rough. Women are a little like flowers.”
Her philosophy is articulated in her favorite quote from Anne Brontë.
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”

Clients include: Vogue Italia, Vogue Germany, Vogue China, Vogue Japan, Vogue US, Harper’s Bazaar, Porter, Allure, Dior, Hermes, Blumarine, Sergio Rossi, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Salvatore Ferragamo, Missoni, Eres, Diane von Furstenberg, Rochas, Givenchy, loewe, Jil Sander Parfume among others.

Originally hailing from Germany, Daniel Sannwald has established himself as one of the most unique voices in contemporary photography and film. In a landscape dominated by referential and repetitive imagery, Daniel has developed a strong and recognizable signature that has caught the attention of some of the most influential names in the music industry including Beyonce, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Pharrell, M.I.A, Travis Scott to mention a few.

DVTK is a creative duo specializing in digital art direction and interactive storytelling. Formed by Kim Boutin and David Broner, DVTK helps visionary brands like Kenzo or Fiorucci telling immersive stories through creating virtual worlds fit for tomorrow’s audience.

Their work has been featured in I-D magazine, Dazed, T-magazine, Creators Project, LSN Global, 032c and It’s Nice that. Some of their works appear in design books such as Viewpoint Feature, Interactive Design and Computer Arts while their projects have won Awwwards, FWAs and Vimeo Staff Picks.

Founded in 2013 by German Jacob Klein and American Nathan Cowen, Haw-lin Services is a creative duo offering photography and film direction services. They strive to create intelligent and engaging visual communication and their process is focused on research, concept development and iterative/fluid collaboration.

Hugo’s sharp vision and cross-disciplinary background, from his time studying Architecture in Paris, have been translated into his distinctive and recognisable photography. Through his meticulous and creative process, Comte creates a dreamlike world, existing independent of a time or an era, in which every detail has been considered (from hair, makeup, lighting, sets etc…)

With a deep understanding and appreciation for the fashion photography of the 90’s, Comte has developed a very distinctive vision; creating compelling imagery, the centre of which is the model – capturing the interiority of his subjects, their intention and strength.

Clients include Bvlgari, Byredo, Salvatore Ferragamo, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Valentino, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, American Vogue, Re-Edition, Self Service, Document Journal and Another Magazine.

London based photographer, director and cinematographer Jordan Hemingway is known for imagery that touches the viewer with honesty, beauty and brutality. His work ranges from printed fine art to gritty celluloid that challenges hackneyed traditional stereotypes of beauty.
Jordan was born and raised in New York City and is now based in London.

Clients Include: Alyx, Comme des Garcons, Gucci, Hermes, Puma, Luncheon, Dazed, System Magazine, W Magazine

Raised in London, Kate’s photographic background was largely fuelled by a passion for analogue photography and long lost hours in darkrooms. With a technical knowledge gained from years of large format photography and wide influences ranging from the Bauhaus movement to cinema and the everyday, she has firmly created her own style in the world of still life.

Kate has a way of bringing together elegance and simplicity through experimenting with reflections, whilst maintaining an intimate relationship between objects, light and space. Kate is based between Munich, London, Paris and New York.

Kenta Umemoto is a photographer based in Paris.He was first acquainted with photography during a lecture at the University of Meiji. He then started exploring the craft while producing still lifes for a traditional Kimono company and Shiseido cosmetics. Over the years his visual interests expended to beauty, fashion, still life, flora and landscapes.
Umemoto is now developing intersections between painting and photography using both digital and manual processes with unique usage of colors such as Ukiyo-e and classic Japanese comics. In November 2022, he launched his own publication project in which the primary focus is to create the limited-edition by meticulously crafting the book itself. Umemoto is relentlessly pursuing his own distinctive vision.

Clients include: Vogue Paris, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Make Up For Ever & Shiseido, Zara.

Kristin-Lee Moolman is a South African born photographer and filmmaker. Having grown up during the political transition between Apartheid South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s new South Africa has had a profound and long lasting impact on the narrative of her work, and fuels the drive to create a Utopian vision for the future.

Her work explores the ever-changing social and political landscape of Africa through portraits marked by contrasting realities – promoting powerful new identities that provide counter-narratives to current stereotyped, idealized imagery.

Working across a wide range of media, including photography, film, drawing and hand-writing, Pablo Di Prima’s work aims at capturing raw emotions around his subjects: joy, intimacy, spontaneity, pleasure, radiance. His photographs and projects, mostly shot analogue, also address questions of creativity and physicality in our digital era. Growing up in Spain in a vibrant mix of European and South-American traditions and cultures, Di Prima is interested in exploring, through individuals and communities, the complex structures of identity.

Clients include: Document Journal, i-D, Replica, Chloe, Fendi, Ferragamo, Flos, Jacquemus, Off White, Zara

Sharna Osborne is a New Zealand born artist and film maker working in London. With a background in Fine Art, Osborne’s work explores the meeting ground between moving image, fashion and art.

Clients include: Mulberry, Martine Rose, Shayne Oliver, Vogue Italia, Fred perry and Section 8.

Valentin Herfray is a photographer and film maker who likes to challenge a traditional medium of capturing imagery. Pushing the frontier of digital use and extending our visual experiences Valentin wants to explore the effect of mass media on our lives, and push the limits of our modern and more traditional technologies.
Working between art, fashion and technology, Valentin likes to play with our perception of reality, always looking for clever and innovative ways to photograph or record something from state-of-the-art technologies to low-res gadgets, turning the viewers experience upside down, inside out and round & round.
Valentin is based in Paris.

Clients Include: Balenciaga, Balmain, Buffalo Zine, Carcy, Céline Dion, Fendi, Fenty, Gentle Monster, Hermès, Jacquemus, M Le Monde, Nike, POP, Re-Edition, Replica, Valentino, Vogue Italia, Vogue US and Zara.