Sean Brandt is an internationally awarded film director, photographer and producer.
Sean was mentored by legendary visual artists Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon and Laurence Sackman, and by original Actors Studio member Professor Marketta Kimbrel, former head of acting and directing at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
His recent film, Guy Bourdin: Image Maker, was chosen by ARTE to celebrate 30 years of cinema production at the world’s most important and prestigious photography festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles. France’s leading newspaper, Le Monde, reviewed it as a deeply emotional, poetic and unique film about an enigmatic artist.
Sean has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Milan, London, Sydney and Copenhagen.
Fashion commissions
Vogue (French, Italian, British, Japanese and Australian editions), Harper’s Bazaar, Numéro, The Face, Vis-à-Vis, GQ and Black & White.Advertising clients
L’Oréal, Cacharel, Schiaparelli, Bleu Blanc Rouge, Beck’s, Mobil, Dulux, Zeiss, Kodak, Ilford, Polaroid, Kellogg’s, ANZ and NAB.Portfolios published in all international editions of Zoom and Photo.
His music video Crying co-opened the Edinburgh Festival. He was invited to the prestigious Sundance Institute Directors Lab, and as actor-in-residence at the International Film Workshops, Rockport, Maine.
Sean has travelled through approximately 125 countries, is an accomplished actor, pilot and skipper, and speaks English, French and German.
11,000+ photographs published on Instagram (sean_brandt_iSnaps) over the last decade.
Born in Australia, Sean received a screenwriting diploma from AFTRS, the national film school, before attending NYU film school. His commercial “Greek Holiday” for Publicis was voted by the BBC one of the top 10 TV commercials of the year and awarded at Cannes and New York. In 1982 he met Guy Bourdin and assisted him for nearly three years, until Bourdin introduced him to French Vogue as its newest photographer.