A well-known proverb says, “The eyes are the window to the soul and a picture is worth a thousand words.”
One of the things we love about our industry is the ability to tell stories through the images and footage we capture.
As World Photo Day is 19 August, that gave MBP an idea.
THE IDEA
In celebration of World Photo Day, we asked our team to share their favourite photo and give us a wee reason why. Here’s what they said…
MATT | Managing Director & Co-Founder
This is a photo from the Gobi Desert, it was my first extreme filming trip, and it changed the way I saw my life!
SCOTT | Senior BDM & Co-Founder
I chose two.
My first favourite photo is of my two gorgeous girls on holiday in Tenerife.
My second favourite photo is of myself and Ronald DeBoer. I had just broken my hand and Ronald tried to squeeze it. It shows the different person you become when you cross that white line to play football at any level.
KATY | Commercial Director
My favourite photo…it’s not technically masterful, but it gives me a massive hug every time I pass it! I keep this photo in my office as it brings a big grin to my face when I look at it. I feel the same at 38 as I did at 2, full of energy and positivity. Anything is possible!
JORDAN | PR Account Manager
My favourite photo is of the beautiful and iconic Grace Jones from 1981 taken by Jean-Paul Goude. It’s powerful, androgynous, radiant and just straight up bad a$$. She’s a big inspiration to me!
GLEN | Head of Production
My favourite photograph and an intimate portrait I took of my best friend.
EMERSON| Accountant
The photos that have affected me most — such as The Vulture and the Little Girl — could never be classed as my favourites. So, instead I chose something simple: my daughter on a trampoline. It always amazes me that we spend our entire adult lives trying to find serenity when all we really need is a time machine and a trampoline.
SCOT | Production Assistant
What I like about the photograph is that you need no context or explanation to know what’s going on. Just from the look on the mother’s face, the closeness of her children, and the texture of their clothes and the fabric around them, you get an idea of exactly where they are, what their lives are like, and how she might be feeling. In what the photographer chooses to show us, and in what he doesn’t, we know everything we need to know about this woman and her family. The ability of photography to create so much story in one image in fascinating.
GILLIAN | Assistant to the Managing Director
This is a photo taken by my husband Matt Brown (had to be one of his right?!) I love it for a few reasons, it is taken on a floating oil platform on the North Sea where the conditions can be harsh and the work can be rough and hard — a contrast to my own life which is usually fairly comfortable, family-centred and homely! There is something other worldly, kind of sci-fi about the image, I see a window into a different world and although it doesn’t exactly make me want to go and work on an oil platform, it sparks my imagination!
