Cavalli, early Daystar working rough from archive.

Simon Procter Shoots Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2010 with actress Nora Von Waldstatten

Simon Procter Shoots the german actress Nora Von Waldstatten in Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2010 for Qvest Magazine.
For the first time ever Procter uses his famous Paris courtyard garden as location, his neighbors (Painters and artisans) give over there ancient ateliers as studio spaces.


"A big fashion shoot is often a beautiful monster not something you might want to bring home.
But this is Haute Couture, the day after the show, rare and unique, and i had being thinking for a long time there could be another way to work, quieter with more compassion, less hysteria..
Nora is beautiful and intense she has unusual almond eyes that flicker with an artists intelligence, her film Carlos is just out.
My neighbors open their homes, we create stories in the spaces that had been theirs for a 100 years we make good food for each other.
It was a beautiful day we catch the last of the gold light and then the garden fades to blue.
Sometimes there is another way to work....with Love"     

Simon Procter, Paris, September 2010

Incandescent, Nine Portraits of Cole Mohr

"We shot the young Texan Model Cole Mohr in NYC this year. He reminded me of  a character from Kerouac, he beguiled and burned. Totally alive and painfully, completely real, almost incandescent." Simon Procter

"Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes!
the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to

solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into ..". Allen Ginsberg

“All of life is a foreign country.”
 Jack Kerouac

'angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to
the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,'' Allen Ginsberg

Hoy Hills, Last week in the Orkney Islands

Seems a long time ago now, back in Paris , Back to work.

Inside the machine, CHANEL

To the Lighthouse, Sandside.

Back home, Orkney Islands

CDG Paris leaving for the Orkney Islands

Elephant, Valbonne, Cote d'Azure

Blue eyed horse, Valbonne

Circus, Valbone , cote d'azure

Madame Rolande

We found dear Rolande the painter dead today. She lived just beneath my studio a mysterious recluse, when i first came to this place i only ever heard her, then she appeared one day,just like in a a fairytale. She had the head of a cat and was permanently shrouded in cigarette smoke. She came to tell me my footfalls were almost silent and she much appreciated i didn't wear shoes, then disappeared. The second time I saw her i enticed her with vodka , she liked vodka and told me my brand was wholly acceptable but not the best. She declared she was "sauvage" and then disappeared and we were friends.

Much later the strangest of things her friendship with my 5 year old daughter. I would sometime watch them from the window as they talked together. 80 years of life between them. Brune earnestly explaining birthday cakes and butterfly masks and Rolande discussing cats and sauvagery and the liberty of beasts. 

The last time i saw her she told me of her boat. Henri was her dead husband they had had a magnificent sailing boat , together they voyaged all over spain and greece. She told me once of a great storm that had come in fast and how they were afraid but had survived. She told me that they had planned to sail to egypt but there was some reason i didn't understand and they had never got there.

Xavier bravely climbed through the upper window and peered down through the trapdoor, he saw her body that had been there for many days, and then the forces of order descended and asked us all such ordinary questions, and the dream was over.

Fire Angel feat Dior

Fire Angel from procter on Vimeo.


Digital experiment by Simon Procter feat Dior.
The Fall from Grace.


Watching Full Screen High definition strongly advised.

Work still in progress

Fashion is Hell, Christian Dior Work in progress

Currently under development, work continues on the original Vs. shoot

The Fire Angel, down into a lake of fire, work in progress

Encouraged by the amazing success of the Blue Angel Video experiment Studio Procter tries to continue the project.

The Fire Angel, down into a lake of fire, work in progress

Nico waiting; Still from Daystar FIlm

The Blue Angel, Viktor & Rolf

A lot of work but here is an advanced version of  the Blue Angel digital experiment.
Try to watch in HD if possible.

The Blue Angel Version Number 3. Viktor&Rolf

V magazine, Dior shoot in studio

Devil cat, Rue Saint Sabin, 11eme

Auto Portrait

NYC shoot for Tommy Hilfiger

Simon Procter in TV Ad for SEAT automobiles

As a part of the latest Advertsiing Campaign for SEAT automobiles, several emerging european artists were interviewed by the film maker Benjamin Lee Gordon.

Simon Procters' recent Advertsiing campaign for Tommy Hilfiger

Simon on location, light test , Wednesday's Chanel Haute Couture Shoot

Old Portrait

Simon Procter Shooting on location in beautiful Picardy, nothern France

15th Century Village theatre converted to stables.

Simons' Assistants collapse under the pressure of shoot. 

Fashion is Pain.

David and some nature

quiet place

from my window

betaville

light, composition, colour

Bretagne, forgot everything for a few hours