Welcome to the new look Design Photography, formally Imagemaker...an online portfolio showcase of photographic work by Lancaster based photographer Andy Hockridge. Andy has been a commercial photographer in the area for around 12 years, previously running a photographic gallery with another photographer. He trained at the prestigous Blackpool College of Art from 1992 to 1995 gaining a degree in Design photography. Before Blackpool he attended a 2 year national diploma at Sandwell College in the West Midlands, this course was at the time widely regarded as the best in country for training in technical photography.
Andy prefers working within the creative atmosphere of small and clever graphic design agencies, this is where he does his best work, contributing & developing ideas for imagery - whatever the project. Andy has worked with many graphic designers over the past 12 years maintaining throughout his passion for image making, his delight in creativity, his determination for quality of the image, creating new ways of representing old themes and most of all retaining and improving the message that the client needs to portray through the photography.
Each portfolio page is set up as a 'coverflow' that should load automatically, all you have to do is click the next 'stacked' image and it will come forward. If you click any image it should, if your browser is enabled, enlarge that image and give you controls for a slideshow & arrows to browse back to a particular image or pause and play. The software uses the latest version of flash and may not run very well on older computers. The ‘Recent Work’ section features some exciting projects created this year, use the drop down menu to choose which project / commission you would like to see, these pages are a simple slideshow with controls. The portfolio of images displayed here are only a selection of the whole body of work, I can show the full shoot content of any project by request.
If you want to see a ‘hard copy’ portfolio with tear sheets and many, many examples of how the photography is used commercially, please send an e-mail from the contact page or you can call me for a visit, again details are on the contact page. There are 2 further pages called 'Boring Stuff' & Image Libraries'. These are link pages to my image library submissions at Alamy & Arcangel and an explanation of what equipment I use and the current prices for photography commissions. Simply go to the page and follow the link to the library, there you can see many, many more stock images of mine.
Please take some time to look around the site. There are hundreds of images to see that will illustrate how Andy creates style, content and quality throughout a huge range of very different clients and products.
Andy prefers working within the creative atmosphere of small and clever graphic design agencies, this is where he does his best work, contributing & developing ideas for imagery - whatever the project. Andy has worked with many graphic designers over the past 12 years maintaining throughout his passion for image making, his delight in creativity, his determination for quality of the image, creating new ways of representing old themes and most of all retaining and improving the message that the client needs to portray through the photography.
Each portfolio page is set up as a 'coverflow' that should load automatically, all you have to do is click the next 'stacked' image and it will come forward. If you click any image it should, if your browser is enabled, enlarge that image and give you controls for a slideshow & arrows to browse back to a particular image or pause and play. The software uses the latest version of flash and may not run very well on older computers. The ‘Recent Work’ section features some exciting projects created this year, use the drop down menu to choose which project / commission you would like to see, these pages are a simple slideshow with controls. The portfolio of images displayed here are only a selection of the whole body of work, I can show the full shoot content of any project by request.
If you want to see a ‘hard copy’ portfolio with tear sheets and many, many examples of how the photography is used commercially, please send an e-mail from the contact page or you can call me for a visit, again details are on the contact page. There are 2 further pages called 'Boring Stuff' & Image Libraries'. These are link pages to my image library submissions at Alamy & Arcangel and an explanation of what equipment I use and the current prices for photography commissions. Simply go to the page and follow the link to the library, there you can see many, many more stock images of mine.
Please take some time to look around the site. There are hundreds of images to see that will illustrate how Andy creates style, content and quality throughout a huge range of very different clients and products.