Three photographs from my 2012 Cannes Film Festival series. 

See series here - http://cargocollective.com/brendonfraser/Cannes-Film-Festival-2012

Exhibition and book details coming soon

EJ. Photographed 2nd May 2013.

Holiday snaps. April 2013.

Josh Flowers and The Wild.

Shoes at the door Tour April 2013.

Ross McDonald, film maker. Photographed at his studio, 9th April 2013

EJ 

Photographed in London, 27th February 2013.

She is rocking Nyoko glasses, more info here - http://www.hip-hopvibe.com/2013/03/25/ej-lands-deal-with-japanese-fashion-brand-nyoko/

Josh Flowers and The Wild 

Photographed in Oxford, 16th March 2013

Musician EJ.

Photographed in West London, 27th February 2013

Nick Ogden.

Photographed 17th February 2013.

Nunhead Reservoir 

Hofit Golan. Photographed at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Cannes project now online - please check it out here, and please share if you’re a fan - http://cargocollective.com/brendonfraser/Cannes-Film-Festival-2012

Rudi Oppenheimer - Holocaust Survivor. 

Photographed for the Holcaust Educational Trust at Eland House 25/01/2013

Rudi was born in 1931 in Berlin and lived there with his parents and his older brother Paul until he was four years old.

His father worked at the Mendelsohn Bank in Berlin and managed to obtain a transfer to the Amsterdam branch in 1936. Before they moved to Heemstede in Holland, he lived for six months in Britain with his mother and brother, although his father didn’t join them. It was here that his sister, Eve, was born.

In May 1940 German troops invaded Holland, and by October 1942 Jews in Amsterdam were being rounded up and deported from the city. Rudi and his family, who had lived in Amsterdam since May 1942, managed to avoid deportation for the time being because his father was working for the Jewish Council. This gave them temporary exemption from deportation.

In June 1943, Rudi and his family were rounded up and sent to the transit camp Westerbork, situated in the north-east of Holland, not far from the German border.

Rudi’s father had registered Eve as a British subject with the Swiss embassy in Amsterdam in June 1942, because Eve had been born in the UK. Rudi`s family were now classified as “Exchange” Jews which meant that they might be exchanged for Germans interned by the allies and were to be exempt from measures taken against other Jews.

This status allowed Rudi and his family to remain in Westerbork until February 1944, when, after spending 7 months in the camp, the Oppenheimer family were deported to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Rudi was just 12 years old.

As Exchange Jews, Rudi and his family received certain privileges in Bergen-Belsen: they lived in separate compounds from the other prisoners; they didn’t have to wear the striped uniforms that other prisoners were forced to wear, they didn’t have their hair shaved and they were able to keep their luggage. Nevertheless, during the winter of 1944/1945 Rudi and his family suffered dire living conditions. In January 1945, Rudi`s mother fell severely ill and died. Just two months later Rudi’s father also fell ill and died.

On 10 April 1945 Rudi and Paul left on the last train to leave Bergen-Belsen. After travelling for 14 days they awoke on the train to find that the SS guards had gone; Rudi, Paul and Eve, recognised soldiers from the Red Army and realised that they had been liberated. They managed to get to Leipzig with the help of the Russians, and from here they began their return journey to Holland. In June 1945, almost exactly two years after their deportation from Amsterdam, they arrived in Maastricht.

The Oppenheimers had a relative in England, so it was here that they headed to join their uncle and aunt, in London. Eve arrived in the United Kingdom in September 1945, followed by Rudi and Paul in November.

Rudi is now retired and talks regularly about his wartime experiences in schools and universities all over the country.

Text taken from www.het.org.uk

Zac Efron. Photographed at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.

New body of work (and zine, more on this another time) documenting the celebrity/ non-celebrity barrier in Cannes coming out very soon.

Nick Briggs - photographed by myself 24th September 2009, Berlin.

Nick was a true artist and inspiration, he will be missed greatly. See some of his work here - http://mentalvomit.tumblr.com/

11th November 1983 - 15th December 2012. 

Miss you brother.

I have been photographing the Oxford Philomusica a lot throughout 2012 - Here is Marios Papadopoulos; the Orchestra’s conductor. 

29th November 2012 

Jack, early 2012