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.
Nick Candy
CEO, Candy & Candy.
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 many projects from NikeTown London to the football training centre in Soweto and the photographs speak for themselves.
Andy Walker
Global Creative Director, Nike Brand Design.
Julian has a rare ability to deliver outstanding results, whatever the lighting challenges he may face. His photography has been instrumental in increasing our brand profile by ensuring the imagery of my work resonates with a wider audience and by producing a consistent and stylised approach that mirrors the quality and essence of the work.
Bethan Gray
Creative Director & Founder, Bethan Gray Design.
Punchdrunk productions focus as much on the empty space as the animated, and we are constantly striving to create environments that bristle with the nervous energy of a moment just gone, or just beginning. The illicit, the hidden, the unspoken: those qualities that an audience can only sense as they explore the space are near impossible to capture in a still image. Working with Julian was a complete game changer. His reportage approach to our fictional worlds gives his 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.
Felix Barrett
Artistic Director, .
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.
Michael Morris MBE
Co-Director, Artangel.
Many years working with the behavioural properties of light and its visual effects, along with the influence of artists Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson, has had a profound impact on Julian Abrams’ thinking. His love of live music, where light and music combined can forge a sense of suspended reality, convinced him to further explore the emotional and perceptual effects of the medium.
Specialising in interiors and architecture, London-based Julian Abrams has a unique ability to balance design and commerce which has lead to long-term collaborations with many of the world’s most innovative brands including Candy & Candy and Nike.
A BA(Hons) graduate from the West Surrey College of Art and Design, Julian is renowned for seductive imagery which appeals to the visually literate.
A passion for light that evolved from a love of shooting nocturnal landscapes, led him to work with key London architectural lighting practices such as Jason Bruges Studio and Light Bureau. The need to shoot their projects without additional lighting resulted in the development of the specialist technique he now employs for all his photography.
Although highly labour intensive and utilising his considerable post-production techniques, the approach enables him to effectively control both available daylight and electric light and seamlessly blend them together to create the perfect stylised image.
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Punchdrunk Theatre Company has pioneered a game changing form of theatre in which roaming audiences experience epic storytelling inside sensory theatrical worlds. Blending classic texts, physical performance, award-winning design installation and unexpected sites, the company’s infectious format rejects the passive obedience usually expected of audiences. Having seen ‘The Drowned Man’ Julian approached the company to collaborate on a photographic project of the show which resulted in the publication of a 135 page coffee table book published in June 2015.
Nike’s extreme cutting edge creativity and use of technology generates some of the most demanding and contrasting lighting environments – calling on both his photographic and re-touching skills. In spite of the challenges, Julian has deftly been able to mirror the brand’s graphic composition on projects including a football training ground in Soweto and the European Championships in Poland as well as the 2012 Olympic Games, with installations in Harrods, Liberty and Selfridges.
Julian’s work has played an integral part in the brand development of one of the world’s leading property design brands. His capacity to recognise the delineation between the aims of design and marketing for luxury homes, yachts and jets, has enhanced the perception of Candy & Candy’s work internationally. Julian was also commissioned to produce their Decade of Design book.
For his first work outside of pure photography, Julian collaborated with the multi-disciplinary, Hackney-based design studio Haberdashery, to create both light sculptures as well as photographs which focus on the behavioural properties of light. Both Julian and Haberdashery are inspired by artists including Bridget Riley, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Levine and the Bauhaus and these influences are present in the subtle modernist aesthetic which underpins their collective work.
Award-winning UK designer and former Head of Design at Habitat, Bethan Gray has since designed products for Wallpaper*, Conran, John Lewis and marble specialists Lapicida. From an early stage in the Bethan Gray brand development, Julian has been integral in developing a photographic style that mimics the brand’s qualities of warm, contemporary, timeless elegance.
Independent and London-based, international retail and leisure design consultancy, Household Design focuses on creating powerful customer journey experiences and Julian has been a fundamental part of the equation for many years. His work for clients ranging from Christian Louboutin and Julien Macdonald to Virgin & M&S, exemplifies his adaptability across luxury, interiors, product and retail.
Punchdrunk Theatre Company has pioneered a game changing form of theatre in which roaming audiences experience epic storytelling inside sensory theatrical worlds. Blending classic texts, physical performance, award-winning design installation and unexpected sites, the company’s infectious format rejects the passive obedience usually expected of audiences. Having seen ‘The Drowned Man’ Julian approached the company to collaborate on a photographic project of the show which resulted in the publication of a 135 page coffee table book published in June 2015.
Nike’s extreme cutting edge creativity and use of technology generates some of the most demanding and contrasting lighting environments – calling on both his photographic and re-touching skills. In spite of the challenges, Julian has deftly been able to mirror the brand’s graphic composition on projects including a football training ground in Soweto and the European Championships in Poland as well as the 2012 Olympic Games, with installations in Harrods, Liberty and Selfridges.
Julian’s work has played an integral part in the brand development of one of the world’s leading property design brands. His capacity to recognise the delineation between the aims of design and marketing for luxury homes, yachts and jets, has enhanced the perception of Candy & Candy’s work internationally. Julian was also commissioned to produce their Decade of Design book.
For his first work outside of pure photography, Julian collaborated with the multi-disciplinary, Hackney-based design studio Haberdashery, to create both light sculptures as well as photographs which focus on the behavioural properties of light. Both Julian and Haberdashery are inspired by artists including Bridget Riley, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Levine and the Bauhaus and these influences are present in the subtle modernist aesthetic which underpins their collective work.
Award-winning UK designer and former Head of Design at Habitat, Bethan Gray has since designed products for Wallpaper*, Conran, John Lewis and marble specialists Lapicida. From an early stage in the Bethan Gray brand development, Julian has been integral in developing a photographic style that mimics the brand’s qualities of warm, contemporary, timeless elegance.
Independent and London-based, international retail and leisure design consultancy, Household Design focuses on creating powerful customer journey experiences and Julian has been a fundamental part of the equation for many years. His work for clients ranging from Christian Louboutin and Julien Macdonald to Virgin & M&S, exemplifies his adaptability across luxury, interiors, product and retail.