Estrella Galicia Takeover

This summer, Estrella Galicia hosted an incredible takeover of Tottenham Court Road station and VIP launch party at Outernet Global, for their new campaign #PourLikeNoOther, shot by Jonathan Knowles. Our team headed out to the station to see our stills and motion campaign wonderfully displayed on big screens, and the public enjoying Estrella Galicia samples...

Madira Beer App

Studio Knowles enjoys a challenge, and when we were set the task of photographing 60 beers in three weeks for Madira’s Beer Delivery App, our creative team jumped into action. From Germany to Singapore, this commission covers popular beers from across the globe, photographed in many environments created in our studio. Watch the behind the...

Glenglassaugh at Sotheby’s

Jonathan was commissioned to shoot a one-of-a-kind Glenglassaugh 55 Year Old whisky for a special Sotheby’s charity auction. The whisky has been created from a blend of rare individual casks filled in 1963, 1965 and 1967, crafted by master blender Rachel Barrie. Auction proceeds will be donated to Distillers’ Charity, Youth Action Fund, which is dedicated to transforming the...

Saturate Your Senses

Created in 2 countries over 11 days, with 18 models, 2 stylists, 2 hair and make-up artists, one food stylist, one drinks stylist, 2 assistants, 3 Red cameras, a cinematic robot and 4K Phantom. Jonathan presents his latest award winning project titled Saturate Your Senses, a teaser campaign for a sensually saturating Edinburgh experience like...

Moon Landing

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the iconic Apollo 11 Moon Landings with a cosmic cappuccino photographed for McDonald’s Deutschland Karriere and thjnk x Leo Burnett Deutschland Art Direction by Alexander Hellmich.

Powers Whiskey Campaign

Photographing the classic Old Fashioned cocktail for a brand new campaign out with POWERS Whiskey, thanks to Rothco and art direction by Matt Evans

San Miquel

Refreshing Riches Await with our new San Miguel summer campaign created with Pablo Agency

Hop House

“We wanted a lager with more taste. So we made one.” ⠀ New commission out for Hop House 13 this was a great project to work on and we definitely enjoyed having a mural brightening up our studio, even if it was only for a week! Agency – AMV BBDO Creative Director – Jim Hilson⠀...

7 Inspiring Coffee Photography Ideas

Jonathan Knowles is no stranger to photographing coffee. During his 25 year advertising photography career, Jonathan has worked with world renowned coffee giants Starbucks, Costa, Nespresso and Nescafé. Using his dynamic photographic style, Jonathan has collaborated with talented advertising creatives from all over the world in order to bring the following 7 inspiring coffee photography...

Costa Cold Brew

Teaming up with Costa again, Jonathan has collaborated alongside Creative Director John Iredale, Head of Creative Production Danny Baylis and Project Lead Ben Nash, to create a vibrant new advertising campaign, including moving image as well as stills, for the new line of Cold Brew coffees. Using his photography expertise with liquids and drinks, Jonathan cleverly captures...

Nespresso Vintage

Nespresso are celebrating the launch of their Limited Edition Vintage 2014 capsules with a series of beautiful and atmospheric coffee images shot by Jonathan. Using his expertise in drinks and liquids photography, Jonathan captures the coffee’s heritage and preparation process using an authentic warehouse environment and symbols of time.

Bulmers Wild Blueberry and Lime

After the success of the Zesty Blood Orange shoot, it was great to be working on Bulmers’ latest campaign. Working with Adam & Eve DDB producer Laura Smith, creative director Steve Wioland and designer Dan Forde, the visual had similar aesthetic to the campaign as the Blood Orange flavor. Needless to say the studio had...

Strongbow

This campaign was one of Jonathan’s recent shoots celebrating Strongbow’s sponsorship of Team GB at Rio 2016.  Photographing the Dark Fruit, Cloudy Apple and Original ciders, Jonathan worked with producer Nicola Applegate, creative director Frank Ginger, and creative team Sali Horsey and Zoe Nash at Adam&EveDDB to produce these rich, refreshing and elegant hero images...

Guinness Surge

In Guinness terms the ‘Surge’ is that beautiful moment when the dense black drink foams and swirls up towards the top of the pint before it settles.   Here Jonathan captures the beauty of the Surge, the moment just before the settle, before things become black and white, and the warmth of the two dancing...

Hibiki

Drinks photography is probably one of the areas in which Jonathan is most well known. His extensive archive of shots ranges from the light and refreshing to the dark & stormy. In this recent shoot Jonathan leans towards the latter. With Hibiki, an incredible Japanese whisky, Jonathan wanted to convey the deep smoky notes and...

Glenfiddich Solera Reserve

The Solera system is unique in the whisky industry. Jonathan was commissioned earlier in the year by Purple Creative, to visually represent the alchemy that occurs within the Glenfiddich Solera Vat. Jonathan photographed streams of light using long exposure techniques to produce a vibrant, beautiful image, full of depth and complexity. The images were shot within...

Robinsons Squash’d

In this heatwave it’s important to keep hydrated, so it’s great to see Jonathan’s refreshing campaign for Robinsons back up on billboards around the country. Agency – Iris Deputy Creative Director – Andy Taylor

Bulmers Goes Big

It’s always great seeing campaigns Jonathan has worked on up on billboards, it’s even better when they get the 3D treatment. We spotted this Bulmers piece up on Shoreditch High Street. Amazing!

Schweppes

Have you seen the new Schweppes ad’s out in London? We are really happy to be able to post about what a challenging and fun project it was to work on. Jonathan carefully crafted bubble streams in the correct form to recreate the top half of the bottle. We were lucky enough to work with...

Bulmers

We were really pleased to see our Zesty Blood Orange ad for Bulmers appear on the front and back of every London Evening Standard this week. It definitely added some ‘zest’ the commute home. Creative Director – Steve Wioland Head of Design – Paul Knowles Creative Producer – Laura Smith Retouching – Gareth Ling @ Stanley’s...

McCafé

There is no better way to start the day, than with a cup of your favorite coffee! This little line up was a shoot we did this year for McCafé…Maybe two cups then!   Agency – TBWA\ZÜRICH Art Director – Bettina Klossner Home Economist – Eliza Baird