Thomas Sing Photography

So, here’s finally the 2nd part of this big project.
See the first part, a description and all credits HERE!

Some may know by now that I am currently featured in the May Issue of Vogue Italia in the “New Talents” section with the picture above. Those who didn’t, well they know now!

Butterflies are having quite of a hype lately, though this project was born long before and it took a lot of time from the concept to its realization. And despite its title ‘In Bloom’, it surely is no happy spring tale.

The idea came across as I was studying the mise-en-scène of fashion design in the ’90s, where the spectacle often bared an element of horror, balancing opposite extremes in a way that takes us straight back to baroque imagery. Realizing that such memento mori would no longer shock anybody today, I wanted to revive this ambiguity of beauty/decadence, life/death as something natural, if not even obvious.

I hope you’ll enjoy this first bunch of picture, I’m going to post some more in the next days.

My thanks go to the amazing crew who made this possible:

Models: Julia G., Anna H. & Richard C. (all @ TUNE Models)
Butterfly-Styling: Lorand Lajos
Make-Up&Hair: Daniela Schatz @ LJ Models & Maren Endrass
Styling: Patrick Sonberger @ TUNE Artists
Art Direction: Chiara Padovan & Thomas Sing
Supported by and shot at the THOMAS WITT FOUNDATION, Munich

And thanks again to all who supported me and my work and made this feature in Vogue Italia a dream come true!

Zip Magazine (New York / Vienna) just published our interpretation of BLACK SWAN.

Visit ZIP MAGAZINE to see the whole editorial!

Credits:
Fotos: Thomas Sing / image resale @ unseenarchive.com
Styling: Chiara Padovan
Make-up & Hair: Daniela Schatz @ ljmodels.de
Model: Suhur Osman @ TUNE MGMT
all clothes & accessories by Lorand Lajos
crystal objects & jewellery: IRINA by Lorand Lajos

Boots boots boots … time to show the Nordenfeldt Spring/Summer 2011 streetshot-style-lookbook (I posted the making-of last August after the shoot).

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I shot the autumn/winter 2011/12 ad campaign & lookbook for the Munich based leather luxury label Live & Love last week. Live & Love stands for only the finest leather RTW & couture made in Germany.  The quality of their leather (they’re using mostly nappa & salmon) is as outstanding as their designs (by creative duo Zoé Verhosin & Janina Stanic).

You’ll be able to see the whole collection soon, until then I’ll post just one of the campaign pictures and a couple of behind-the-scenes shots.

Thanks to the whole team for this great shoot, i.e. all the cool people at Live & Love, Daniela Schatz for the make-up & hair, Lorand Lajos for the styling, our models Yuliya T. (PS-Models) and Stefan Mirbeth (TALENTS Models), Chiara Padovan for the assistance & Simon Wächter for filming the making-of.

Issue #26 of noi.se magazine (UK / Australia) just came out with these pictures that I’ve shot with Stephen Delattre at the outskirts of TIME & MOTION combining highspeed photography with long exposures.

Styling: Chiara Padovan
Clothes: mostly Lorand Lajos

Here are some recent A/W 2010/11 ad shots for a new Hans-Peter Gerner leather jacket with lamb lininig with which he won PLATIN at the International German Fur Award. CONGRATS!

I posted the making-of pics of this campaign for Atelier Gerner a couple of weeks ago, now here’s the result: five pictures that represent typical actions in the process of designing and processing leather and fur. Starring on the pictures: Hans-Peter Gerner’s daughter Natalie who’s heading the Gerner tailoring atelier.

We were shooting the NORDENFELDT spring/summer 2011 lookbook yesterday in Munich. It was an awesome production using a “quick & dirty” ringflash technique that made the images look like accidental streetshots of a variety of typical city scenes. The focus was on the boots, so the pictures had to come across like anonymous “snapshots” (a pity we had to cut Val’s beautiful face). But at the same time they had to tell a story of a typical day of our Nordenfeldt girl’s big city life.

Here are just some impressions from the first couple of set, there’s a lot more in the actual lookbook which I’ll post here as soon as it will be printed.

Lee McQueen’s death in February was a devastating loss not only for the world-wide fashion community, but for everyone working in any creative field that’s somehow connected with fashion. During his rather short career as a designer, he influenced the 90′s and 2000′s with his unique aesthetics like probably no other.

To show how much his work had affected a whole generation of young creatives, Chiara and I decided to shoot a couple of homage pictures.

The 1st one was shot in my studio with Maria Justus wearing a dress that Chiara made from 40 meters of fabrics. The inspiration for the dress comes from McQueen’s S/S 1999 show. We wanted Maria to look not like an object of desire, but strong and untouchable, with certain historic references. Make-up and hairstyling by Maren Endraß.

The 2nd photograph was taken in a private chapel. Chiara is wearing a vintage Yamamoto dress that’s enlarged with additional layers of textile by Lorand Lajos (who also made the headpiece and the collar) and an Italian vintage wedding dress. Make-up by Maren Endraß.

The last one has become my new portfolio cover. I came across this fascinating dog during a walk downtown. The Xolo breed is truly controverse and altough it is based on a genetic disfunction it has been honored as sacred for thousands of years now. To me, the Xolo represents a certain kind of Otherness. Looking like a creature from culture’s unconscious depths, he seemed to embody the McQueen-principle quite well. And to bring the relation to clothing back into the picture, we decided to make him a coat from fur rejects.