Julian Abrams Photography

Julian has photographed a number of Candy & Candy design projects, each with different challenges to overcome. He has approached each shoot with the same meticulous eye for detail and delivered time after time. Julian is more than someone we work with, he is an extension of our team and a truly brilliant photographer.

We first started working with Julian just over two years ago and he’s now the only photographer I will work with. He’s extremely skilled with composition and light balance, professional and always a pleasure to work with.

Julian is a true craftsman with a fantastic mastery of light and architecture; someone we completely rely on to capture our overall vision and capture the details in a beautiful and graphic way. He has shot numerous projects for us and the photographs speak for themselves.

Artangel commissions occupy a space between the artist’s intention and the public’s experience. Julian’s challenge over the past few years has been to be faithful to both, in a series of still images that span a myriad of very different projects. His images are anything but still: they move effortlessly between place, idea and feeling.

This work has been created for no other reason than my personal enjoyment and my love of creative experimentation. Thematically it is largely concerned with the behavioural properties of light and its visual effects and aims to explore the emotional and perceptual effects of the medium.

I initially approached Punchdrunk having been given a ticket for ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ by a friend. It proved to be an incredible experience and one which left my head spinning with photographic opportunity. I contacted the company and suggested a collaborative project based on the multiple intricate sets created for the show but after several meetings and a test shoot was persuaded to shoot the performance too.

Felix Barrett, the artisitic director if Punchdrunk later wrote that my “approach to the fictional worlds gives the work a visceral danger which, for the first time, succeeds in freeze framing that which is impossible to articulate: the darkness that lurks in the imagination of the audience.”

One of the great privileges of being a photographer is that opportunities sometimes arise to travel and I’ve been lucky enough to get the chance to photograph a diverse range of environments across the globe.

Black and white imagery was my entry point into photography in the analogue age. The images in this section aim to acknowledge a debt to those formative years with an emphasis on the interplay between light and shadow and graphic composition.