Being Gordon Ramsay
Netflix


New key art for Netflix upcoming series Being Gordon Ramsay.

This one started sixty floors up, watching the sun rise over London surrounded by maneki-neko in Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant. And it finished with the executive chef Ronnie Kimbugwe throwing a huge bunch of carrots into the air.

In between we took photos of course, but we also talked about love, family, training for triathlons, the best champagne, liquid nitrogen, obsessing over produce and a thousand other things.

The shot list to make a poster like this is huge, with every person needing their own mix of accessories — from gently crawling crustaceans to giant architectural blueprints. But I love a challenge, so with coffee flowing, a colour-coded set, and an epic playlist, we got to work capturing the personalities of the brilliant characters surrounding our unstoppable protagonist.

Gordon himself said on set “everyone here is the talent.” I could not agree more – this was a great shoot made even greater by all the dedicated, fascinating and very talented people both in front and behind my camera.

The six-part docuseries follows Gordon and his family as he embarks on his most ambitious project yet. Watch on Netflix from 18 February.


CREDITS

Netflix

James Warren – Marketing Manager
Jordan Anderson – Photo & AV Studio Specialist
Jennifer Dunlap – Creative Strategy
Audrey Lacoste – Product Creative Producer
Benjamin Tucker – AV Producer
Katherine Solomon – PR Director
Patricia Deever – PR Specialist
Roy Henry – Photo & AV Studio Manager
Rich Hawkins – Marketing Director
Livi Roberts – Title Social Manager J
James Honess – Global Creative Marketing
Mia Milner – Marketing Production Manager

Once Upon a Time

Kath Broom – Associate Account Director
Mica Murphy – Creative Director

B&A Reps

Beth Wightman – Head of Photography

Black Cap Production

Campbell Beaton – Executive Producer
Natalie Uglow – Producer
Nellie Heron Anstead – Producer
Hannah Bilverstone – Producer
Armand Daniaud – Production Runner

Crew

George Hall – 1st Assistant
Rosie Wilson – 2nd Assistant
Seb Niespiowski – Digital Operator
Phillip Hardman – Lighting Technician

Grooming

Buster Knight – Groomer
Annabel Clark Clements – 2nd Groomer

Styling

Maureen Vivian – Stylist
Edie Sunman – Stylist Assistant

Art Department

Fred Allsop – Art Director
Bonnie Anthont – Art Director’s Agent

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