• Ego Ella May

    Friday, April 5, 2013

    Check out the promo we shot for the release of Ego Ella May’s EP “The Tree” More music from Ego Ella May here. BTS photos by @lemonfritters  

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    Review – Air Flow Tech Table from Savage

    Wednesday, February 13, 2013

      I often shoot tethered and find myself tripping over cables and balancing my laptop in awkward places.  Savage, a company based in the US who are more known for making seamless backdrops than tethering tables, have recently released the Air Flow Tech Table. Its a modular design which allows you to add various components to [...]

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  • Life On The Heath

    Tuesday, January 29, 2013

    Life On The Heath from James Kar on Vimeo. Life on Hampstead Heath after the snow had fallen. Music by Cinematic Orchestra – “Arrival of the Birds” Hampstead Heath is picturesque on any given day, especially after 2 nights of solid snow.

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    Hotel Chocolat – How It’s Made

    Monday, January 21, 2013

      Heres a short piece we filmed with Angus Thirlwell, founder of Hotel Chocolat, and Yael Rose, founder of the Chocolate Festival.  Filmed at Hotel Chocolat’s Roast and Conch store in Covert Garden.   BTS Photos by @lemonfritters

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Videography

Jul
17

English Frank – Offender Music Video

Two weeks ago I teamed up with Director James Nunn to shoot English Frank’s latest music video.  The video will coincide with the release of the motion picture Offender, starring English Frank along with Joe Cole and Kimberley Nixon, which will be in UK cinemas from the 8th August 2012.    

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Feb
27

Fstoppers Winners Announced

Last year Edmund Curtis and I cut together an in-depth BTS video for a series of Grolsch Idents we were filming. We entered it into the Fstoppers BTS video contest and made it into the top twelve. It has now been announced that we have come 2nd! (Bagging us a nice amount of camera gear!) [...]

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Jan
2

Grolsch Idents with BTS

After the success of ‘Strange Fruit’ Edmund Curtis and I have joined forces to create Curtis and Kar. Two DOP’s working on the same set!?  Who would have thought it possible.  But it works. Collaboration is one of the greatest creative tools. Below is our latest video. With the guys over at Fstoppers holding a [...]

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Dec
5

DOP Showreel

Here is a collection of my work shot on both film and HD.  Enjoy :)

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Photography

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Jan
11

To crop or not to crop?

How Far Can You Crop A 5Dmrk2 Image? Last year I shot the art work for FIN’s debut album.  Fin mentioned that they were going to crop into the image but I was taken back when I saw the final image.  I though he wasn’t being serious, but I was wrong.  Have a look for [...]

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Nov
9

We Are Augustines

Got to meet and watch We Are Augustines at their Book of James single launch. Amazing band, friendly guys, an unforgettable night. Saw these guys play on Chase Jarvis live a few months back so it was really something to be able to photograph them myself. For more photos please head over to my Flickr [...]

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Nov
7

Trehearne & Brar

A few weeks back we were in France shooting shawls for Trehearne and Brar and for Vogue (UK).  These are not your everyday shawls, these are genuine Kashmir shawls, hand woven from authentic Pashmina cashmere.  They take months to make and retail from £400 – £6,500. (Yes I’m thinking the same, thats the price of the [...]

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Nov
5

Addison Lee

I photographed this quite a while ago but no one told me it was online. So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this when I went to book a cab.