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Commercial Production Company Spears & Arrows, led by Founder/Managing Director Jason Wolk, has signed the acclaimed auto photographer, Lisa Linke for running footage and auto advertising. 

“Lisa is a leader in her field,” says Wolk. “She is a sought-after car shooter with a strong background in capturing exciting car action as well as staging and lighting beauty shots. Her work hooked me the moment I saw it, but it was after I met her in person that I was all in on Team Linke. On top of having a great eye and being incredibly talented, she is friendly, outgoing, and easy to work with. And in a collaborative business like advertising, those qualities can be just as important as creative vision , which she also has in abundance.”

Linke grew up in Mannheim, Germany where, as she tells it, “I always had a camera in my hands. My friends would even joke that they didn’t recognise me without one. So, when we all began going to the racetrack as teenagers, I naturally began photographing the action, the spectators, the pits, the cars, the drivers, anywhere I could get to without getting kicked out. And that was it. I fell in love with everything about the racetrack scene. Not just the action and the cars, but the drivers and the emotions. The endurance races were my favourite because I could move all around the track, capturing the action in constantly changing light from dawn to midnight. Looking back on it now, I can see that what I was really doing was shooting little documentary films with still images. I wanted to tell the stories that I saw unfolding around me.”

“That’s the key isn’t it?” Wolk continues, “Storytelling. That’s what it’s all about. I could see that in her still work. Her photography is already so full of motion and emotion, I knew it was only a short step for her to move into live-action. And then, Lisa showed me some rough cuts of video that she had shot while on her photography assignments and I was blown away. 

Not surprisingly, her compositions were graphic, strong, and unique, but it was her instinct for moving the camera around a vehicle, a landscape, and a human face that convinced me she was ready to bring her young, fresh, and highly cinematic eye to live-action auto advertising. We’re thrilled to have her join us.”

Lisa Linke calls Los Angeles her home base, but she shoots all over the world and has worked with nearly every major auto agency in the business: Commonwealth/McCann, Saatchi & Saatchi, David & Goliath, Leo Burnett, TBWA/Chiat Day, Innocean, etc. Linke’s recent motion work includes spots for Infiniti, Audi, Lexus, Toyota, and USPS.

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