We first started working with Julian seven years ago and he’s now the only photographer I will work with. He’s extremely skilled with composition and light balance, professional and always a pleasure to work with.
Laura Hammett
Creative Director & Founder, Laura Hammett Design.
Julian has photographed a number of Candy & Candy design projects, each with different challenges to overcome. He has approached each shoot with the same meticulous eye for detail and delivered time after time. Julian is more than someone we work with, he is an extension of our team and a truly brilliant photographer.
Nick Candy
CEO, Candy London
Julian has a rare ability to deliver outstanding results, whatever the lighting challenges he may face. His photography has been instrumental in increasing our brand profile by ensuring the imagery of my work resonates with a wider audience and by producing a consistent and stylised approach that mirrors the quality and essence of the work.
Bethan Gray
Creative Director & Founder, Bethan Gray Design.
Julian has been capturing the essence of our real estate and lifestyle projects for over a decade.
His unparalleled skill and creative vision have made him an essential partner.
Whether it's been capturing high-value properties across the globe or creating captivating lifestyle shoots, Julian's dedication to perfection and attention to detail always shines through.
Dominic Evans
Creative Director and Co-Founder, DD LONDON
For more than a decade I have had the privilege of working with Julian and during this time he has been instrumental in the delivery of exceptional photography for some of the world’s leading hospitality brands that we collaborate with. His unique approach to each brief, mastery of light and attention to detail consistently delivers results that go above expectation.
James O'Brien
CEO Interiorculture
Artangel commissions occupy a space between the artist’s intention and the public’s experience. Julian’s challenge over the past few years has been to be faithful to both, in a series of still images that span a myriad of very different projects. His images are anything but still: they move effortlessly between place, idea and feeling.
Michael Morris MBE
Co-Director, Artangel.
‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away’ is a monographic book project I conceived and proposed to astronomer Professor Richard Ellis to document some of the most technologically influential astronomical telescopes of the modern observational era and the buildings that house them. Over a period of several years we travelled to some of the most extreme locations on earth to photograph observatories on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, in the hills of the Atacama Desert in Chile, above the clouds on La Palma in the Canary Island and at Siding Spring in Australia.
The book can be purchased at www.everythingbeautifulisfaraway.info
This work has been created for no other reason than my personal enjoyment and my love of creative experimentation. Thematically it is largely concerned with the behavioural properties of light and its visual effects and aims to explore the emotional and perceptual effects of the medium.
In November 2023 I exhibited my first non-photographic work at the J/M Gallery on Portobello Road under the pseudonym of my alter ego Hooley. For me the work from the show is a logical extension of my love of light and geometry and can be seen at:
I initially approached Punchdrunk having been given a ticket for ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ by a friend. It proved to be an incredible experience and one which left my head spinning with photographic opportunity. I contacted the company and suggested a collaborative project based on the multiple intricate sets created for the show but despite my initial reticence I was persuaded to shoot the performance too.
Felix Barrett, the artistic director if Punchdrunk later wrote that my “approach to the fictional worlds gives the work a visceral danger which, for the first time, succeeds in freeze framing that which is impossible to articulate: the darkness that lurks in the imagination of the audience.”
We produced a coffee table book ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ which can be found at:
www.centralbooks.com/drowned-man-the-a-hollywood-fable.html
One of the great privileges of being a photographer is that opportunities sometimes arise to travel and I have been lucky enough to get the chance to photograph a diverse range of environments across the globe.
Black and white imagery was my entry point into photography in the analogue age. The images in this section aim to acknowledge a debt to those formative years with an emphasis on the interplay between light and shadow and graphic composition. These and many more black and white images can be purchased as prints from www.coutureeditions.co.uk
Specialising in interiors and architecture, London-based Julian Abrams has a unique ability to balance creativity and commerce which has lead to long-term collaborations with many of the world’s most successful designers, artists and innovative brands.
A BA(Hons) graduate from the West Surrey College of Art and Design, he worked in the music and fashion industries before the development of his current style and is now renowned for seductive imagery which appeals to the visually literate.
A passion for light – that evolved from both a love of perceptual art and from shooting the hidden light of nocturnal landscapes – is combined with the graphic sensibility that informs much of his work. His development of highly labour intensive post-production techniques enable him to effectively control both available daylight and electric light and seamlessly blend them to create highly stylised imagery.
All images © Julian Abrams 2024
Julian Abrams Studio
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