Perry Curties is known for producing stylised, conceptual, character-based imagery, his work employs a dramatic use of lighting, colour and composition built around a visual language that is closely linked to editorial fashion photography. He enjoys the application of new technology with traditional photographic processes and often subtly combines multiple images, backgrounds and 3D renders within his still and motion work. He is not afraid of artificial intelligence, yet.

As a boy, Perry spent most of his youth imagining a career as a pop star and it was with this goal in mind that he decided to (temporarily) become an abstract expressionist painter to support his musical ambitions. While at art college he was required to attend a routine photography demonstration and found himself strangely drawn to the photographic image appearing through the chemicals in a developing tray.

And that was that.

Following a path that led through art school while assisting some of the world’s leading fashion photographers gained him a skill set that he still applies to his work today – namely a love of art, style and technology, the ability to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas, all while operating under extreme pressure.

In more recent years Perry has adapted to shoot a range of moving image work, particularly in the entertainment field where ‘motion posters’ are a brilliant medium for combining his skills as a key-art photographer with his technical know-how and ability to direct talent.

He has also won a number of fashion film awards for his work with the Italian sneaker brand P448 for whom he has created a series of documentary shorts that combine his background in fashion photography with film directing, and exploit his inability to say no to a ridiculous challenge. A combination which recently found him filming python hunters at night in the Florida Everglades.

When not knee deep in a swamp or waiting for an actor at Pinewood studios you’ll find him at home in leafy Hertfordshire with his wife and son (probably up a ladder with an electric screwdriver).