A selection of property and interior photography commissions shot in 2020. All images by Cristina Pedreira.
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Lifestyle photos of the latest Jacqueline Wilson book, Love Frankie. Commissioned by Penguin Random House Children’s UK. All the images were styled and shot by me in my home studio 🌈
The short film that Matthew Hammond and I made in collaboration while self-isolating can now be seen as part of Strangelove Time-based Media Festival. Our film – and many other great pieces – can be watched in Screen 1 on Strangelove’s website, curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews.. “457 dyadic and triadic” is the combination of my visual experiments with paint and liquids and Matthew’s improvised music piece, which we hope you enjoy. You can also leave comments on the festival’s website and even show us your love for the film by tapping or clicking that heart below the video 💙
Direct link to the video here
A collaborative film created from their shared home while self isolating, the film experiments with paint, liquids and different densities to generate haphazardly moving abstractions. The moving images were recorded by Cristina Pedreira after Matthew Hammond’s music piece. 457 dyadic and triadic is an improvised piece using a self-designed scale based on a just intonation tuning system. Just intonation tuning uses musical intervals that are wholly based on the natural harmonic series, and using scales based on them allows access to intervals and sound colours that don’t exist in the standard equally-tempered Western tuning system.
July is the month to celebrate 31 days of German Riesling, and I did my bit by bringing to life the flavours of Riesling. Photographs taken at my home studio for Wines of Germany UK and masterminded by Phipps PR.
Stop motion animation has been part of my creative process for more than ten years. On this project I use my photographs as a starting point, I set it all up, start without a plan and pack it all up on the same day, which means each animation is started and finished within several hours. As a photographer and videographer with a background in painting and drawing I have always been interested in the boundaries of each medium and the different possibilities when combined.
You can watch four of my hand painted animations below and a short video tutorial showing the process behind the animations.
This project is a collaboration with the musician Matthew Hammond, whose music is featured in all the videos.
Carnival in the province of León, Spain. Images taken in Carrizo de la Ribera and Llamas de la Ribera during the celebration of the “Antruejo”.
Commissioned photography for Penguin Random House featured in Daisy Upton’s book, “Five Minute Mum”.
It was a pleasure to document Daisy, Ewan and Florence playing some of the games featured in the book. Just published (February 2020), about half of the photographs in the book are by me and the other half by Daisy herself. Below are some of my favourites.
In 2019 I was commissioned several video projects and documentation by Decanter. A series of video interviews with Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson ahead the launch of their new World Atlas of Wine, video documentation for their social media channels at The Great Sparkling Exploration and the Fine Wine Encounter. At the Fine Wine Encounter I also produced separate video pieces focusing on the masterclasses and the discovery theatre. Videos available to watch below and also a selection of photographs from their Bordeaux Fine Wine Event.
“Danse Élargie: Dance Expanded” At Sadler’s Wells Theatre for Getty Images. All the images can be seen on Getty’s website. Below, a selection of some of the performances. From top to bottom: “Queen Blood” by Ousmane Sy, MUR/MER by Elsa Chene, “Eye” by Jusung Lee, “To da bone” by (LA) HORDE, “WRECK -List of Extinct Species” by Pietro Marullo, and “Family Honour” by Kwame Asafo-Adjei, image featured on The Guardian.
Mar de Frades hosted a boat cruise in London, bringing the best of Galicia to the Thames. I documented the experience with video and photography, creating content for internal usage and social media.
A recent project I photographed for CJCT in South West London. The re-development incorporates a locally listed retained façade from the 1920’s which I loved.
All photos were shot and edited by me. More information about the project on CJCT’s website
Last May I was at The Vinyl Factory to document of the GForce Tasting event. The Wines of Germany trade and consumer tastings are a celebration of the German wine industry. Both were captured with photography and video and here you can watch a selection of images from the day.
Looking back at a busy springtime. Here a selection of images from Rioja’s rebranding event at the beautiful Rumpus Room in The Mondrian Hotel. The artist Carlos Corres has created a series of work with different types of wine as his main medium and you can also see him in the video further down. Both photography and video were used to document the evening. Salud!
The Cognac Experience, an event hosted by Phipps on behalf of the BNIC (Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac) at East London’s TT Liquor. A food pairing masterclass, a mixology masterclass and over 71 different types of Cognacs to taste.
I was asked to document the event, both with photography and video to capture the mood and the atmosphere during the day. Here a selection of images from the day and the highlights video 📸🎬
Arañazos Pálidos Vol.II
Shot in Fuji 400H and Cinestill 800T at Café Pruckel, during a long afternoon and a quick evening visit.
Architecture photography for Hassell Studio. The National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME), University of Bolton.
A Floating Summer Banquet directly from the pristine beaches of Uruguay to the river Thames in London. A unique event hosted by German Bruzzone, Bodega Garzón’s winemaker, in the Viscountess boat.
Food banquet by Ceviche restaurant paired with Bodega Garzón wines / Music by DJ Baby Soul / Designed by Cascabel Studio.
An evening with the best wines, food and music!
Photography: ostraspedreira
One of my photographs is amongst the winners of the “Wine Moments” mission organised by EyeEm for Schluck Magazine.
Schluck is a biannual publication about people and their stories with, for and through wine.
It is carefully and beautifully edited and a pleasure appearing on the pages of their Glamour edition. Also really happy when a surprise copy appeared on the mail, thanks to the Schluck team.
Prost!
Triptych for José Pedro on Father’s Day.
Pt I
Pt II
Pt III (Three brothers in their village)
This year I went to León to document the most traditional carnival, but I also took the opportunity for a night time photo shoot.
Some sources of inspiration: Hugo Ball, Sonia Delaunay, Varvara Stepanova, Kiki de Montparnasse, Elizabethan ruffles and the joy of dressing up to replace our every day mask with another persona.
Self portraits in a garden. 2017
Looking back at some of the great events covered last year.
Harvest Party at Tanner & Co. and Urban Food Fest, both for Blends Wine Estates, London.
A well needed doze of bright colours to start the year.
Ruta 40, Iruya and self portraits with swimming cap.
Simplifying Argentinian shapes.
It’s been two months since my first trip to Latin America.
Still developing, scanning and editing what I brought back home.
Holidays, Matthew and British summer.
Film for a non existing summer.
Lanzarote in black & white film.
I love its volcanic landscape, emptiness and light.
In Semana Santa I went back to my hometown in Northern Spain, León.
During this time of the year the city transforms into a platform for performance, music, processions, tradition and home made lemonade.
Walk in the snow.
Buxton, 4th March.
New Year’s eve in Spain, empty streets until midnight.
My last walk/the last hours of 2014 in Villaquilambre, León.
One year anniversary of my arrival to Manchester.
It is snowing.
This is a new space that I will use as a visual diary.
