Tag Archives: Monaco
Constellation Cookfest in Monaco
240 of the planet’s most (Michelin) star-studded chefs gathered together in Monaco earlier this month to pay homage to the godfather of French haute cuisine, Alain Ducasse. Alain was the host with the most at this culinary extravaganza to celebrate his 25th anniversary of heading up the Louis XV, Monaco’s only three-star restaurant. Read More…
A Tale of Two Covers
This is a behind-the-scenes tale of two assignments. Shot for different clients at different times, both were corporate portrait commissions for magazine covers. Both subjects were men at the top of their game, photographed on location, by the sea. But the conditions were rather different….
Subject number one was the smooth Swede/Monegasque Mikael Krafft, founder of Star Clippers cruise company. My client, Private Banking Magazine, wanted me to take the portrait onboard his private yacht. The second shoot, for Marketing Magazine, was for a feature on the Auzzie CMO of Mars, Bruce McColl, who’d popped over to Cannes to pick up the coveted Advertiser of the Year award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Both clients wanted to see a French Riviera sunny background.
A Monagasque Welcome
Helicopter and superyacht activity reached a peak in Monaco last week. International media attention was heavily focused on the principality’s upcoming royal wedding. However, despite much event-related promotion of Monaco as a desirable South of France tourist destination, the principality, known for a heavy-handed approach to photographers and for protecting its VIPs, was true to form in not making life easy for those who were sent by agencies and publications across the world to capture images of the Monaco royal wedding, and Prince Albert and Charlene’s glamorous jet-set guests.
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Superyachts on the Drawing Board
Sitting on a sunny café terrace, if you overheard people next to you discussing Wally, Linda Lou and Queen M, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were talking about old friends graced with slightly unusual nicknames.
First spread of Centurion Magazine's Espen Oeino feature, Spring 2011