Stuart Douglas (DP)

Stuart was one half of the photographic duo The Douglas Brothers, who’s hugely influential work during the late 80s and early 90s blurred the boundaries between art and commercial work, advertising and editorial, fashion and illustration. Their subjects for publications like The Face, Esquire & The New York Times Magazine were the glitterati & literati of the day: Daniel Day Lewis, Liam Neeson, Susan Sontag, Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie. A stills campaign for Adidas led them to a series of stings and commercials including the award-winning Naseem and other spots featuring Muhammad Ali, Marcel Desailly and David Beckham. After the brothers split in 1996 a succession of epic commercials for Coca-Cola, British Airways, Sony & Airbus cemented Stuart’s reputation as a leading commercials director. His chilling Kill Your Speed commercial for Road Safety received a BTA Silver Arrow and a gold at The One Show. More recently awarded work includes D-Day for the BBC, Carlsberg Newspapers, and Guinness Christmas Card, which won silver and gold Sharks at Kinsale for direction and cinematography respectively. Other work includes a hugely successful campaign for Waitrose, and as well as work for Nike, Johnnie Walker, UBS, Pepsi and McDonalds.

In August 2008 Stuart directed Johnny X a groundbreaking episodic web drama for Sony Ericsson.

Car commercials include work for Ford, Pontiac, Lexus, Landrover, Saab & Vovlo. Stuart has worked with a diverse range of talent, from the real global suppliers of Waitrose to a host of celebrities: Theirry Henry, Gordon Ramsay, Sir John Peel and Steven Gerrard are among those to have featured in his commercials.

Stuart usually lights his own work and his constantly innovative photography, much imitated in some of it’s more distinctive incarnations, continues to evolve.