Last week Nafi Thiam broke the indoor pentathlon world record in Turkey. (A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events.) It was incredible shooting her just two weeks prior for Red Bull and Iconic. It’s not often you get to meet and work with a GOAT. Thanks for the good vibes Nafi and team!
We spent a day in the studio with rugby legend Bryan Habana and Markets.com to create images and moving images to announce their 2023 partnership. 
Markets.com is an innovative, world-leading trading platform that offers financial trading products.
[commercial] For the INTERSPORT Winterised running campaign, we had massive rain showers set up by a special effects team as you cannot plan rain in Cape Town. INTERSPORT is one of the world’s biggest global sports retailers. Brands we shot: Adidas, Asics, Nike, and Energetics. Our pictures are used for all the INTERSPORT market’s social media channels, websites, and in-store prints.
Agency: Wilderness.
Check out the Winterised campaign 2022/2023: training & calisthenics.
[commercial] For ophthalmologist Kirstin Uppenkamp’s new practice and website, we photographed her, her practice and team, and her family and friends’ eyes. The eye specialist opened a new practice in January 2022 in Wiesbaden in Germany.
Have a look at the website uppenkamp-augenarzt.de and how beautiful it turned out. Thanks so much for having us, it’s been something so different to shoot, a fabulous challenge.
Keen to create some magic with us? Shout!
[commercial] A day with the Springboks at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium: We took stills alongside the Energade TV commercial in Pretoria with the Springboks (The South Africa National Rugby Union Team). All players (Siya Kolisi, Franco Mostert, Jaden Hendrikse, Jesse Kriel, Malcolm Marx, Ox Nche, and Thomas du Toit) were super fun to work with. On the left, you’ll find some behind-the-scenes footage.
Have a look at the second part of the shoot with athletes in Cape Town.
Give this drink a try, it’s brand new on the market: #StepUpYourGame with Energade ZERO in three refreshing and delicious flavours. DNA’s favourite: Lemon, Lime & Ginger.
agency: Levergy
CD: Andy Croly / Matchstick
Producer: Chris Coetsee / Dare
DOP: Ramon Mellett
& more. Thanks team!
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[commercial] For our client INTERSPORT (one of the world’s biggest global sports retailers) we shot the ‘Back to sports’ running campaign in beautiful Amsterdam with a fun crew next to a video crew shooting a TVC/social motion. Brands we shot: Asics, Adidas, Energetics, Nike, Brooks. Our pictures are used for all INTERSPORT market’s social media channels, websites, and instore prints.
Ready to move? Agency: Wilderness.
> Keen to see more? Check out the Back to sports training campaign.
[commercial] 
R-E-F-R-E-S-H with 0 sugar
It’s so awesome to see the roll out of the images we got to take alongside the video production for Energade over two days in Cape Town and Pretoria with the Springboks (The South Africa National Rugby Union Team), the SPAR Proteas (The South African national netball team) and other athletes. Have a look at some of our images of the Springboks here. In this post, we focus on the athletes. Give this drink a try, it’s brand new on the market: #StepUpYourGame with Energade ZERO in three refreshing and delicious flavours. DNA’s favourite: Lemon, Lime & Ginger. 
agency: Levergy
CD: Andy Croly / Matchstick
Producer: Chris Coetsee / Dare
DOP: Ramon Mellett & more. Thanks team!
DNA rules for a good & meaningful road trip:
1. Take the long road.
2. Speed does not matter.
3. Stop and turn around for things/places etc. that look interesting.
4. Make time and talk to people.
… road tripping a few weeks back in Denmark for Mercedes-Benz in the new E 300 Cabriolet.
We produced stills (scroll down, please) and video and had a blast.
“See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.” ~ Laozi
[commercial] We shot these advertorials for a couple of Media 24 magazines (Men’s Health, Bicycling, Women’s Health, Weg!, Weg! Ry & Sleep, Go, Go Drive & Camp). The star of the shoot was the New Toyota Fortuner Epic.
Great crew, lekker vibes, and loads of fun!
[commercial] A face mask is the new essential, a must in South Africa (and many other countries around the world). Who would have ever thought we’d walk around wearing masks? It first felt strange, now it’s normal; “The new normal” everyone is talking about.
Our friends at Fittees make these slick black masks at a super price ZAR25-ZAR50. You can shop them here and of course in store at Fittees – 352 Victoria Rd, Salt River, Cape Town. We loved shooting them and having a little fun with Tobie and Sarah.
[editorial] British Airways turned 100 last year; when it made its first scheduled international flight – to Paris, from London – the Union-Castle shipping line was the Gateway to Africa. Together with journalist Nick Dall, Desmond documented the old buildings and interviewed some of the people that used to work there.
[documentary] When you are on assignment with Oli Munnik, you know you are in for a wild ride! In Port Elizabeth we shot Alan Hatherly (a South African mountain bike racer and Olympic athlete) hanging out with some amped high school cyclist. Thanks Signal Bikes, looking forward to the next tour.
Read more about it here.
[editorial] For the November 2019 issue of Cathay Pacific‘s inflight magazine Discovery we traveled to the Cederberg. We stayed at the beautiful Cederberg Ridge Wilderness Lodge, visited Bushmen’s paintings, Clanwilliam, the Skimmelberg Buchu and Rooibos farm and enjoyed it all! What a great country we get to live in! Thanks again to the Hong Kong team for giving us such a great gig. [Have a look at the South Africa feature we shot for Cathay Pacific a while back. Click here.]
[commercial] A while back we had the privilege to shoot some of the Bokke (Springboks) with their new World Cup 2019 kit for Asics. The 2019 Rugby World Cup is about to happen in Japan… Good luck boys! Go Springboks!!
[advertorial] We drove to Wupperthal and did the donkey trail in the Cederberg mountains. What a blast!! Check the airtime Antonia got in one of the shots. ?
To see Wupperthal after the devastating fires from New Year’s Eve 2018 was really sad. Much of the historic town was destroyed. Though, we met locals who were super positive with the rebuilding. #sterkte
Shot for British Airways’ inflight magazine High Life.
[advertorial] When British Airways’ inflight magazine High Life gave us this Volvo XC60, the only brief was to focus on design. So we did. We just love what Volvo is doing on the inside and out. ?
[fashion] Our favourite thing? A good road trip! Our second favourite thing? Cabins! And we got both… Shooting and producing the Live Your Winter campaign 2019 for First Ascent (outdoor clothing) was great fun. Thanks to everyone involved for a rad adventure, you rocked it!
[advertorial] A lovely morning out with Peter Frost while shooting the new Kia Sorento for British Airways’ inflight magazine High Life. We went to Franschhoek in the Western Cape. The Kia really impressed me in performance and good build quality.
[fashion] The 2019 SAKO7 kit (socks and cycling apparel) has just been released. We had so much fun shooting it and giving it a dark-ish edit.
[editorial] For a South Africa feature in Cathay Pacific‘s inflight magazine Discovery we got to travel all over South Africa. Kruger Park, Route 62, Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn and Cape Town were on our list (including Chapman’s Peak, Boulders Beach, Cape Point, Kalk Bay etc.). Great being a tourist in your own country! Thanks to t
