The video portfolio websites below were handpicked for their stunning aesthetics and simple, yet creative design. These sites have a distinct style that include visual arts, photography, film and video, illustrating, painting and more.
October 13, 2021Othello Banaci is a Liberian-American filmmaker and photographer based in Washington, DC. Known for his composition, clean aesthetic, and passion for human rights, he creates space for people to share their stories with compassion and grace. Recent credits include the Emmy-winning HBO documentary 38 at the Garden, the Paramount+ documentary Lynching Postcards ‘Token of a Great Day,” and the Yale & Slavery Research Project.
https://othellobanaci.format.comMatt Mawson started photography assisting one of London’s top advertising photographers. He left studio photography and began contributing to a number of European press agencies covering many of the world’s conflicts in SE Asia, Africa, Northern Iraq, The Balkans and Eastern Europe. The creative disciplines of the studio and the immediacy of reportage photography have evolved into a distinctive photographic style that's evident in award-winning corporate communications.
https://matt-mawson.format.comAmina is a Cinematographer specializing in Analogue and Digital formats. Her clients include Vogue, GQ, Paper Magazine, Flaunt, L'officiel, Saint Laurent, Skims by Kim Kardashian, Gucci, John Varvatos, Lexus, Toyota, Nissan, and more. She creates images that are conceptual, alluring, distinct and honest.
https://aminazadeh.format.comGuillermo Sánchez-Villarta is a spanish photographer who's currently living in Germany. His work is primarliy documentary, and aims to explore the relationship between people and places, often framing already established imaginaries of other disciplines such as literature, music and general folklore . His focus on using analog cameras and film, links with the idea of intergenerationallity.
https://gsvillarta.format.comHalle Hirota is a photographer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Halle aims to achieve an other-worldly quality to her work, images that aren't quite reality but similar to a snapshot from a dream. Her work is centred around themes of femininity and sexuality in hopes of changing the way we view the gendered qualities of others.
https://hallehirota.format.comWenxin Yang is a Chinese-born, Columbus, OH based videographer and photographer. His work is informed by an unrelenting sense of nostalgia and a love of calmness. As a result, his work focus on the subtleties of life, displayed through his street photographs and music videos.
https://wenxin-yang-ivtg.format.comHeins Evander (he/they, b. 1998) is an NYC-based Chinese-American photographer originally from Jakarta, Indonesia. He loves cycling, sleeping in, and dogs. Evander particularly enjoys photographing people while talking too much and getting inevitably distracted, but he swears that's part of the charm of their work.
https://heinsevander.format.comLaurent Laughlin is a freelance Journalist, Shooter and Director specializing in the production of long and short format documentaries. He is from California and currently work with Vice in Greece. He has also worked for a number of media outlets including Time, AFP, The Economist, CNN, The International Herald Tribune and others.
https://laurent-laughlin.format.comBen Robson is a photographer from regional Australia with a passion for film photography. He collects old cameras, and use them to shoot various film stocks. Ben loves to develop his own negatives.He is fascinated by people, and the character that film is able to draw out.
https://shootingben.format.comGiselle Keena is a youthful and ethereal New York City-based photographer and director specializing in film portrait photography and video content in the fashion and music industries.
https://giselle-keena-pdeh.format.comHeather Glazzard's photography is a personal exploration of sexuality, vulnerability and femininity. Shooting exclusively on film, they aim for the imagery to be as egoless as possible, focusing on bringing a minority of people into light. They take intimate portraits of the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality that makes up the queer community of creatives, collaborating regularly with LGBTQIA stylists and designers.
https://jesseglazzard.format.comNick Prideaux is an Australian film photographer and visual storyteller based in Paris. He has worked and collaborated with fashion labels, magazines, and publications, including Konbini, Fisheye Magazine, IGNANT, Phases Magazine, Majestic Casual and The Fader. Nick captures scenes from his life in a diaristic manner guided by his intuition, rather than preconception. The camera gives him a way of looking at every day in a more conscious light.
https://nickprideaux.format.comThe Focalister is a Montreal-based artist whose visual identity is inspired by his past as a pro breakdancer and a youth spent travelling the world. Working primarily with film, his photographic work emphasizes the rawness and authenticity of his subject matter while allowing a certain sensitivity to shine through.
https://thefocalister.format.comKenneth Pihl Nissen is a Copenhagen-based photographer who primarily works with film. He likes to combine editorial assignments with alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, wet-plate collodion, or the like. He loves the craft and process of shooting, developing, and wet-printing his work. For commercial use, he utilizes high-end scanners or a digital/analog camera setup.
https://kennethpihlnissen.format.comKunjo is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is inspired by his investigations of the Black male body, dynamics of Black male relationships, and archival work related to the African American experience surrounding masculinity. Working with film, Kunjo creates intimate portraits that explore the unexamined and unrecorded emotions of Black men. His photography encourages viewers to address past issues that are a result of our current state in time.
https://filmdiddie.format.comLatifa (b.1994) is a Saudi Arabian multimedia artist born in the Middle East and raised in Texas. Her bicultural experiences challenge her to observe beyond the obvious to fully engage with the vigor and uniqueness of every subject. Her work is a visual testament of her lifestyle and experiences as a young Brown woman. The purpose of her work is to explore the complex feelings of being an immigrant and woman of color. Her visuals communicate what she fails to voice through words.
https://latifaya.format.comPetros studied film and He got his BA in Film and TV production from Queen Margaret University and his MA in cinematography from Napier University. His short films have been shown in numerous film festivals including AIFF, AGLIFF, and BUSHO.
https://petros.format.comWill Fielding is a freelance videographer and motion graphics artist based in Norwich, United Kingdom. Will has shot and edited content for global lifestyle brands, media publications, music artists, and short films. Trained in cinematography, Will’s eye for composition was developed during his film degree at Falmouth University. Will has fine-tuned his distinctive style which elegantly captures detail and embraces a naturalistic use of light to produce sophisticated compositions.
https://willfield.format.comRomain Reglade is an innovative digital agency. The team of professionals creates digital assets for fashion and luxury brands to help them craft visual tales that can truly tell their story.
https://romain-reglade-mnpu.format.comAdam Wilkoszarski is a Polish documentary and landscape photographer based in Poznań, Poland, born in 1986. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography from the University of Arts in Poznań. In his works, he concentrates on the ways in which places, which are usually full of people, are changing the very moment when they become abandoned and empty. He tries to find places in which the borders between public and private spheres are blurred.
https://adam-wilkoszarski.format.comStéphane Gizard is French photographer, living and working in Paris. Best known for portraits of young people created for his “Modern Lovers” series, photographer Stéphane Gizard’s gentle, kindly eye manages to capture the beauty and fragility of his subjects, which have included many celebrities and strangers. His work reveals their sensuality and brings out the expression of a truth; an intimate questioning. In parallel to working closely with the press and the advertising industry.
https://stephanegizard.format.comLuuk Walschot is a director slash creative slash photographer. His style is commercially authentic, which means that the work he creates feels truthful and thus makes a big impact. The truth can be told with humor, love, tension and in various other ways, but in its core it’s about emotion. Contact him if you want to move your audience emotionally and make them act physically. He’s Amsterdam based, but he works all over. He also talks about himself in the third person.
https://luukwalschot.format.com