Photographer turned Film-Maker.
Each frame can be a stand alone photo.
Poppy de Villeneuve trained at the London College of Printing and graduated with a BA in photography in 2002. ??Her stills editorial work is featured regularly in Modern Painter, American Vogue, The Saturday and Sunday Telegraph magazines (including several covers), The Guardian Weekend magazine, Dossier, Esquire, W magazine, Monocle, US Teen Vogue, Art Review, British Vogue and most recently and the NY Times’ T magazine. She recently photographed John Waters for the cover of Modern Painters shot the Elizabeth Arden fragrance campaign for ‘Nanette’.
Poppy’s filmmaking debut started with a short film for the New York Times, T magazine, filmed at the Coachella music festival and titled ‘You are Everywhere’. Afterwards, Poppy was commissioned for the LVMH cultural website, Nowness (www.nowness.com), to make a short studying the Rambert dance company at Sadlers Wells, with their new work inspired by the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. She has just completed her second film with Nowness staring the Chinese model Liu Wenn in an Art Deco pool in New York City.
Most recently Poppy was selected to make a series of five short fiction films for the New York Times’ T Magazine. Episodic by nature these films encourage viewers to return regularly and each episode can be seen alone or as a whole. Poppy signed to Partizan in March 2010.
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