Jonathan Knowles

Jonathan has won three gold awards in the Graphis Photo Annual 2008. Two of the winning images are personal work (Mr. Smith’s Hat and Rowan) and the third, to the right, was commissioned by Wieden and Kennedy for Nike and was art directed by Guy Featherstone.

Jonathan was asked to put his dynamic liquid expertise into practice with the latest poster ads for Weetabix, working with the talented Ross Neil and Billy Faithful from WCRS.  

The campaign strategy centres around promoting different ways to enjoy Weetabix at different times of day, through exploring different ‘menu’ options.

Jonathan worked with Leo Burnett creative team Bertie Scrase and Thad Cox to recreate the marvels of the sea down at Pinewood Studios’ underwater stage. What better way to show the power of Daz Ocean Burst than to photograph it speeding through the sea, toward the ultra white T-shirt.

Jonathan has shot twelve executions for the COI for the campaign to inform people that England will be smoke free in virtually all enclosed and substantially enclosed public places and workplaces from 1st July.

The campaign uses typical signage usually seen in environments where people have been allowed to smoke in the past, adapted to communicate the new law and start date.

The campaign was created by Farm. Art direction was by Kevin Colquhoun, with writer Gregor Findlay. The creative director was Gary Robinson.

Jonathan has shot a new campaign for P&O, through Designate and art directed by Paul Watson. The ads all feature the line ‘this is my P&O’ and focus on various aspects of the on-board experience. Though most of the shots were done in the studio, Jonathan and his assistant did enjoy some of the amazing weather we had in April shuttling backwards and forwards to Calais for a couple of days.

Jonathan has shot a series of the Nokia N95 for the The Carphone Warehouse, through CHI and Partners, art directed by Warren Moore The images will be used in store windows and on the cover of the Buyer’s Guide. The aim was to bring out the sculptural good looks of the device, in each of its many functions (telephone, MP3 player, SatNav and camera).

At the same time he also shot the Samsung U600 and Nokia E65 for the same purposes.

Jonathan has been involved in shooting the first press work produced by The Red Brick Road on behalf of Heineken, art directed by Mark Hesse. The campaign is to promote Heineken’s sponsorship of the Champions League and centres around condensation in the shape of the land masses of the World on a green ‘bottle’, with various headlines emphasising the global nature of the competition.

Take a look at Jonathan's latest editorial shoot, in the June addition of GQ magazine. The brief was to produce an image to capture the lightness and fleeting nature of the new Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme.

During February, Jonathan has photographed Jonny Wilkinson, Dawn French, Earl Spencer and Fiona Fullerton in support of The Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, now the number one fundraising charity for brain tumour research in the UK. The advertisements feature the celebrities 'head to head' in the style of Smith and Jones, mimicking the charity's corporate identity.

The project was commissioned by Chris Catchpole, at Catchpole & Friends, and followed on from the award winning work that they produced last year for the same charity, for which Jonathan shot a series of conceptual still lives.