Images: Courtesy of Cade Martin / Above: Washington Ballet
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BY: PROVOKR Staff
Cade Martin likes drama. The American photographer—who used to roam around movie sets capturing still photos—brings a similar sense of theatricality to his editorial, advertising and personal artwork. He creates fanciful set pieces, exotic characters and whimsical stories. Here’s a selection of his elaborate work. Martin himself provides the back story on how some of these images were created.
“This image was created for a book project for the Washington Ballet,” says Martin. “This was my first time shooting dancers. Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, was with us on set helping direct the dancers through their movement possibilities once the image was composed. The final images were all captured entirely in camera.”
“This image is for the launch campaign of Starbucks Tazo tea,” says Martin. “We cast dancers for the some of the roles—people who could create interesting shapes with their bodies.”
Another ethereal photo from the Starbucks Tazo tea campaign.
“This image is from a campaign for the New York Philharmonic,” says Martin. “The idea was to create a magical forest, a Pied Piper scenario in which the music was drawing out the animals from the trees. I photographed the redwood forest in Northern California, Leelanee Sterrett—the third horn of the Philharmonic—in a studio, and the horses I shot at an old circus in Riverside, CA that also doubles as a prop rental house.”
Bride & Groom
Stickworks
Whitby
Bride & Groom
Stickworks
Neenah Paper
Stickworks
Azulik
A “making of” video of Martin’s photograph for the New York Philharmonic:
