A strange video clip...

Few months ago, my friend Anto asked me to take some photos during a video clip filming. The kind of work I like to do. But I had no idea about who was the artist... My first surprise was to meet a guy that I knew for many years through my Hip Hop culture. Solo (Assassin/Toxic) was the creator of the mythic rap group Assassin, then he created the Toxic parties with Uncle O 10 years ago and they also made an album together mixing different style of music. Solo founded a music label called Black Frog Entertainment and they started to promote a group, the Monomaniax. I don't know exactly what kind of music they do, it's a strange mix between punk music and electronic music... So here I was. Working in the middle of people coming from different universe during a shooting of a video clip. I personally prefer my photographs than the music, but if you're curious, here is the link to watch the video clip made by Anto Hinh-Tai & Jeremy Halkin a.k.a Les Darons.

(Click on the first image to open the slideshow)

Anne-So & Nico's wedding

I'm not into the wedding business anymore (and I don't think I used to be!), but I love to cover a wedding when the guys are some friends of mine, or some friends of friends... Well, in a word, when the guys are cool, I know the wedding will be cool.

A wedding day is not a 50% time job, you have to be at 100% as everything is fast, from the church, or even from the make up in the morning, to the champagne and the final cake (yummy!) after midnight. But the longest work comes after the wedding day, when it's time to edit more than 1000 pics... And I'm a lazy boy...

I promised that I'd put some pics of this nice day here, so here is a bunch of life moments I've shot during the Anne-Sophie & Nicola's wedding. I'm not good to choose the right images, so it's just a personal selection of what I like.

Cheers!
(Please, click on any image to launch the gallery)

Fred Wesley & the New J.B.'s live!

Last Friday night, I said "no" to the parties I was invited by my friends and said "yes" to take my car  alone and drive 40 minutes to see a true legend onstage. I couldn't miss this opportunity to see such a legend of Funk close to my house as I already missed him earlier this year in Paris. But I have to tell you that I also have a special story with Fred Wesley. This kind of story you will always remember... I can only tell you that few months ago I was shooting him in a music studio in Paris for the new album of an artist and I don't have the right to say who is he neither to show you these images for the moment...

Anyway, I paid only 5€ to see one of the most important man related to the James Brown's career. Crazy, right?! No accreditation this time, I was shooting with fans around me, just for fun. Of course I brought my Canon 5D MkIII and my brand new macro lens 100mm f/2.8 L IS to test for the first time this combo in a concert situation. Nothing else to say that it's the best combo I have ever had to shoot portraits, macro, products and concerts. The lens is sharp as hell and the camera is awesome when you go in high ISO. Here is a bunch of photos I did, and here is the link to watch a quick video I shot with the 5D and the 100mm during this concert.

Cheers!

Canon 5D MkIII - 1/200s - f/2.8 - ISO 2000 - Canon 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS

Canon 5D MkIII - 1/250s - f/2.8 - ISO 2500 - Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS

Paris Heineken Cup Launch

In September, I had the chance to photograph the Heineken Cup Launch in Paris for Getty Images and the ERC (European Rugby Cup). The mission was to make some portraits of the athletes and their coach in the France Television photo studio, to shoot some cool outside group pictures and to take some photos during the press conference. All was really fast, and it was not easy as I had to run everywhere, but it was a great job and opportunity to meet these great champions.

Here is a bunch of what I've shot. You can see all my work for Getty Images whenever you want on their website typing "Richard Bord" in the search area ;-)

Thanks for visiting. Cheers!

Captain Aurélien Rougerie of ASM Clermont Auvergne

Captain Sébastien Tillous Bordes & coach Bernard Laporte of RC Toulon

Captain Jacques Cronje & coach Gonzalo Quesada of Racing Metro 92

Captain Imanol Harinordoquy of Biarritz Olympique PB

Coach Guy Noves of Stade Toulousain & Coach Laurent Rodriguez of Biarritz Olympique PB

Captain Thierry Dusautoir of Stade Toulousain

All the images are © Richard Bord / Getty Images

Derby du Vénéon, a successful first edition

After almost 4 months, I'm finally back to the blogg! Time goes fast and it's hard to keep blogging when you are very busy working everywhere. I'll try to post things about what I did these last months during the next weeks...

Last week-end I was pleased to shoot a kayak event in the French Alpes called "Derby du Vénéon" consisting in going down a river from a "A" point to a "B" point as fast as possible with a team of 3 kayakers. 16 teams of very good kayakers were in La Berarde to compete on the river. It was cool to be (again) in the Alpes walking and running along the river to catch the vibes of this very first Derby organized by the well known french kayaker Mathieu Dumoulin from the Adidas SickLine Team.

Here is a bunch of what I've shot during the week-end with my brand new Canon 5D MKIII and my "old" Canon 7D...
See you there soon for more news ;-)
Cheers!

Here is the official video edited by Stephane Pion : https://vimeo.com/48961575/