Poppy de Villeneuve (born May 22, 1979) is a British director and photographer.
Early life
Poppy was born in Hampstead, London and grew up in the countryside of West Sussex in England. She is the youngest child of model Janet de Villeneuve (née Griswold) and manager/photographer
Justin de Villeneuve (born Nigel Davies) and the sister of illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve.
Career
Photography
De Villeneuve graduated from
London College of Communication
The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts. It has approximately ...
, University of Arts London in 2002 with a BA in Photography. She started working for the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph Magazines and the Guardian weekend magazine. Other clients include British and American Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, British Esquire, Dazed and Confused, Monocle, Art Review, and Modern Painter. She photographed John Waters for the cover of Modern Painter in September 2009.
In 2008, de Villeneuve photographed real people in forty cities across America for German outerwear company Wellensteyn. This project was made into the book, ''Forty/Forty''.
De Villeneuve was part of a group exhibition, ''Music Loves You'', at Parisian-based boutique,
Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her ...
. Other artists in the exhibition include
Beck,
Nick Zinner
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Musical career
Before forming the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs with Karen O and ...
, and
Lenny Kravitz.
Directing
De Villeneuve's first short film, ''You Are Everywhere'', was commissioned by ''
The New York Times
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'' style magazine,
''T'', in 2009. Filmed at
Coachella Coachella may refer to:
* Coachella, California
* Coachella Canal, in California
* Coachella (festival), an annual music and arts festival in California
* "Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind", a 2017 song by Lana del Rey
See also
* Coachell ...
, it includes various musical artists such as
The Killers
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,
The Kills
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,
Connor Oberst,
Ariel Pink
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, The Vivien Girls,
Late of the Pier
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History Forma ...
, and
Friendly Fires
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.
That same year ''T'' magazine commissioned her to make a five-part web series entitled ''The Park'', which featured
Macaulay Culkin
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,
Q'orianka Kilcher
Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (; born February 11, 1990) is an American actress, singer, and activist. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's 2005 film '' The New World'', and Kaʻiulani in ''Princess Kaiulani'' (2009). ...
,
Mary Beth Peil
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, and
Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor, narrator, writer, and film director. On screen he is best known for his work as junkie Corky Caporale in ''The Sopranos'' and the hotheaded chef in the indie film '' Dinner Rush'' (2 ...
.
De Villeneuve's short film ''How You Look It'' for
NOWNESS
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ASVOFF Film Festival that was awarded at the
Pompidou Centre
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in September 2010.
De Villeneuve made a series for AnOther Magazine online entitled ''Ten Tales'', ten interviews based on the Proust questionnaire.
De Villeneuve has most recently completed a 10-minute film for
Morgans Hotel Group
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, ''Love Is Like Life But Longer'', written by
Simon Van Booy, and starring
Jeremy Strong,
Maya Kazan
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Personal life
Kazan is the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Rob ...
, and
Joan Copeland
Joan Maxine Kupchik ( Miller; June 1, 1922 – January 4, 2022), known professionally as Joan Copeland, was an American actress. She was the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller. She began her career during the mid-1940s, appearing in thea ...
.
Commercials
In October 2010, she made a commercial "SHOWGIRLS" for the Walmart Company, for their supermarket ASDA in the UK.
Other clients include Nike's Being True project, Juicy Couture, Wallpaper, Philips du Pury, Wacoal USA, Miss Selfridge, and Anthropology.
De Villeneuve signed with
Partizan Partizan may refer to:
Sport
* JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs:
**AK Partizan, athletics
** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling
** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo
**FK Partizan, association fo ...
in March 2010.
References
External links
Artist's website*
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1979 births
English film directors
Photographers from Sussex
Living people