bookings ~ touchmyfilm@gmail.com
Luké Simmonds
Photographer & creative director.
Currently in London, UK.
Photography & Cinematography.
Ethereal/euphoric imagery inducing emotion with subtly dark undertones.
Photography has evolved for Luke as a way to challenge perspectives and create emotive visuals.
Distinguished by Culture ,Philosophy & Human Nature.
Represented by
Line Up Gallery, Paris ~ France.
Statement ~
"What lasts longer, a memory or a feeling.
Nostalgic stories told through the fleeting frames of film give birth to my aesthetic. My work sets out to create a version of reality, to escape modern tragedy of the human condition. As is photography, just a collection of past moments presented to the future.
Through timeless aesthetic and creative compositions using the black and white medium I disclose a ménage à trois of light, form and shadows to understand my own romanticist approach to life and my relation to society. To grasp the day-to-day magic that surrounds us, moments that feel intangible, like the dying rays of the sun or the deep sensitivities of human connection.
I address matters of the heart and the head through a visual dialog of events that mirror past and present cultural and environmental fashions.
I wish for others to see the world as it could be seen."
capture ~
Exhibitions ~
I’m waiting for life to start | Solo Exhibition | Sydney, Australia 2022
Anti-Utopia | Touch my film group show | Sydney, Australia 2021
Youth & debauchery | Touch my film group show | Cornwall, UK 2019
An ode to youth culture | Solo Exhibition | Paris, France 2017
Assisting ~
- ' Bounce ' by Jordan Malane | Matteau | https://www.jordanmalane.com/bounce
- ' RUSH Collection ' by Jason Yeoman | Ávoir Eyewear | https://www.jasonyeoman.com/film
- ' WEB ' | Yentl Touboul, Jason Yeoman & Wes Grant |RVCA / Wasted Talent | https://www.jasonyeoman.com/film
- ' Untitled ' | Tim Baker | https://www.timwillbaker.com/
Insight ~
Jason Yeoman.
AWARD WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER | FILM-MAKER.
" Luké has a unique outlook. The photographic tools that Luke chooses and the way in which he utilises them help sculpt a somewhat avant grade repertoire of artistic images. I feel his work provides a connective and reflective visual script that I look forward to continue watching grow in the photographic and film industry. "
Beatrice Pegard, PhD
Commercial and Film Director,
COLLIDER
bea@collider.com.au
" Simmonds is a highly accomplished and capable photographer and filmmaker and his research interest in eco-feminism and environmental humanities would bring creative wealth to his photography practice. Simmonds also has a genuinely international outlook in his art praxis both due to his educational and professional track record, as well as his personal history. "