Sarah Laird & Good Company : Kids campaign for CLARKS SHOES, PRIMARK Summer campaign, Chuck Close artist portrait in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, OILILY KIDS campaign & GRAZIA UK editorial

American painter Chuck Close was portrayed by Christopher ANDERSON for a story in NEW YORK TIMES magazine.

Artist Chuck Close suffers from a deficit called prosopagnosia (face blindness). The deficit makes him unable to recognize familiar people by seeing their face. This, however, did not keep the painter from becoming famous with larger-than-life portrait heads which he painted using photos with facial grids. Close' paintings are not a direct depiction of natural reality and its direct stimulation of the retina, but is, moreover, based upon the indirect reality of a photograph. Despite paraplegic paralysis which put him in a wheelchair in 1988, he creates masterpieces. Further portraits, reportages or contract work by Christopher ANDERSON for clients such as NIKE are available directly from SARAH LAIRD.

For the PRIMARK Kids Summer campaign, Tim MARSELLA c/o SARAH LAIRD shot cheerful children at the beach. Outfits were put together by stylist Chloe LLOYD.

Kids photographer Tim MARSELLA relied on cool close-ups for the OILILY Kidswear Fall/Winter campaign.

Chris CRAYMER c/o SARAH LAIRD photographed a fashion editorial for GRAZIA UK. Make-up: Deanna Melluso, hair: Enrico Mariotti.

New CLARKS Kids shoes campaign – photos by Stefano AZARIO c/o SARAH LAIRD.