Switching Gears, the short film by James John featuring Okorie Chukwu & Kyrelle Lammy.

Currently in Post Production. Release date: TBC

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

DIRECTOR: TROY ROSCOE

PRODUCERS: JAMES JOHN & DANYL EARTH

D BLOCK EUROPE FEATURING DAVE ‘PLAYING 4 KEEPS’ DIRECTED BY RAPMAN, CINEMATOGRAPHY BY SIMON ‘AUKES’ STOLLAND.

STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

CINEMATOGRAPER: SIMON STOLLAND

STILLS PHOTOGRAPHER: ASHLEY MEKAN

RECORD LABEL: CASH COW RECORDS

Portraying Black, a vertical series creating personal cinematic portraits with everyday people explaining what they feel it means to be Black.

Produced, Directed, Filmed & Edited by James John.

D DOUBLE E & WATCH THE RIDE ‘ORIGINAL FORMAT’ MUSIC VIDEO

DIRECTED BY: JAMES JOHN

KREPT & KONAN ‘BAN DRILL’ DIRECTED BY RAPMAN, CINEMATOGRAPHY BY SIMON ‘AUKES’ STOLLAND.

STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

Voir Magazine features Bebe Rexha on the front cover of their latest issue. Voir commissioned James John to capture the Behind The Scenes of the photoshoot.

CINEMATOGRAPHY / EDITOR: JAMES JOHN

ART DIRECTOR / PHOTOGRAPHY: LUKE WALWYN

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / STYLIST: JYOTI MATOO

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

James John directs & films a personal intimate stylish video for the smooth ‘Lyrical Hypnosis’ from D Double E’s Jackuum album.

SHIRO’S STORY 3, THE FINALE EPISODE OF THE INDEPENDENT DRAMA THAT BROKE THE INTERNET.

(1,000,000 VIEWS IN 5 HOURS)

James was personally commissioned by Rapman to shoot the Behind The Scenes photography of this legendary moment.

The photos then went onto be used on Billboards, Newspapers and reposted all over instagram.

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

SKEPTA SHUTDOWN THE MAIN STAGE AT LOVEBOX 2018. JAMES WAS THERE TO CAPTURE. GREATNESS ONLY.

PHOTOGRAPHY OF SHIRO’S STORY 2

1,000,000 VIEWS IN 28 HOURS

BEHIND THE SCENES

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

VIDEO: JAMES JOHN

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

Directed by James John, D Double E brings you a raw freestyle to reveal the tracklisting of his up & coming album.

Hello, I’m James John, a Creative Director, Artist Manager. Filmmaker & Photographer.

As well as Creating behind the camera, I’m often sought after to appear in-front of the camera, I’ve modelled for Toni & Guy’s Essensuals, catwalked for L’oreal’s Men’s Image Award, and many more Photographers and campaigns.

Email: James@JamesJohn.co for enquiries.

JAMES WAS COMMISSIONED TO CREATE THE WINTER 2019 LOOKBOOK FOR D DOUBLE E’S BLUKUWEAR CLOTHING RANGE.

JAMES PHOTOGRAPHED AND ALSO SOURCED PHOTOGRAPHER FRIENDS TYRELL BROMES AND ASHLEY MEKAN TO COLLABORATE WITH AND CURATE THEIR IMAGES FOR THE LOOKBOOK.

PHOTOGRAPHERS: JAMES JOHN, TYRELL BROMES, ASHLEY MEKAN.

MODELS: BEAU LYNAM, IAM CHILDISH, BHABINA.

STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

James John directs an explicit humourous educational video for D Double E’s classic ‘Back Then’.

Premiered by Highsnobriety, featured on Complex, GRM Daily, RWD.

LONDON, UK. DECEMBER 2017.

This is the 3rd video James has been commissioned to create for Daj Jordan, but this time it's for Daj's first original piece of music and this time Daj had a moody dark vibe with beautiful violin composition.

Daj had the bones of the video and sourced a dancer and a location that he had in mind. After James listened to the track and viewed the location he came up with the idea to simply follow the moody dark vibe of the song and show off Daj's playing and Han's dancing in a smoky cinematic perfomance.

LONDON, 2018. 400,000 VIEWS IN THE FIRST 28DAYS.

James was commissioned by Director Saloum N'Jie (Luther) to take over the cinematography and edit on this music video. It was a very challenging shoot. There was very limited time, 3 reschedules within 4 days and a double up of roles for crew members, but we knew we had to film this historic moment of capturing Wiley and D Double E in a music video together.

James called in his favourite camera operator and trusted long time collaborater Simon "Aukes" Stolland to Gimbal operate and co-direct the Photorgraphy. Together we all worked it well and we managed to capture Wiley for this amazing video feature.

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

CINEMATOGRAPHER: JAMES JOHN

EDITOR: JAMES JOHN

PRODUCED BY: THE WORLDWIDE TRIBE

CALAIS, FRANCE. 2017.

The 'End of The Jungle' is a short documentary I made for the Refugee awareness organisation 'The Worldwide Tribe'.

My aim was to create an intimate personal honest short film show the feelings and thoughts of the Refugees affected by the closing of the Refugee camp in Calais called 'The Jungle'.

There was a lot of uncertainty during the eviction and demolition of the camp. We provided an honest intimate side to this situation from the Refugees' point of view that differed to the mainstream media's content.

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES JOHN

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

CINEMATOGRAPHER: JAMES JOHN

EDITOR: JAMES JOHN

BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND. 2017.

'I Am In Here' is a short documentary I made with Portland-based well-known film photographer Ryan Muirhead. This short film is a conversational style documentary piece about Ryan's journey and daily battles with mental health to becoming the well-known photographer he is today and using art as a way to cope during challenging times.

TOWARDS THE END OF 2018 JAMES WAS COMMISSIONED TO CAPTURE THE ‘NOT FOR THE RADIO’ LONG FORM UK MUSIC INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS.

JAMES IMMEDIATELY IMPROVED THEIR CINEMATOGRAPHY, EDITING AND AUDIO QUALITY AND HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED THE CHANNEL 380,000 VIEWS ACROSS 4 VIDEOS.

James came on board with Vevolution in November 2017 to lead their video and audio content.

Starting with the Vevolution 2017 Festival at The Royal Institute in London, James has produced 65 Videos, 70+ Social Media clips and 75 Audio recordings that were turned into Podcast episodes for Vevolution’s ‘Podcast to Inspire the Plant-Powered Generation' which reached number 6 most popular Podcast in the UK in the Education section on iTunes.

Photography featured on this page is by Ashley Mekan, a photographer who is mentored by James to capture high quality ‘behind the scenes’ style photos.

VARIOUS FASHION PROJECTS DIRECTED AND/OR PHOTOGRAPHED BY JAMES JOHN.

LONDON. 2017.

'How I Like It (BTS) is an smooth but energetic look at what went behind the camera on set at D Double E's Music Video shoot. Featuring JME, Lethal Bizzle, Chip and D Double E.

THE O2 ACADEMY, ISLINGTON, LONDON.

8,000 VIEWS IN THE 1ST 7DAYS.

James, alongside Daniel Dixon (Bluku Music) and D Double E directed filming and visual projections for the legendary one off concert.

A Man's Next Step is a short film I made about Male depression and the stigma attached to it due to the culture of telling males to "Be A Man" and "Man up".

We made this short film from start to finish (writing to final edit) in two days for an online film contest. We wanted to bring awareness to the issue of Men seeing asking for help as a last resort instead of a first step. Since making this we have now planned to re-produce certain elements of this production as it was all made in 2 days and certain elements we can improve.

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL RECORDING STUDIO IN BERKSHIRE & SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

James is the Creative director of VN Studios.

On a cold misty evening in East London we filmed Daj Jordan's first official music video. Daj the Violinist played a beautiful violin cover of two songs, while James filmed this misty evening.

DIRECTOR: JAMES JOHN

CINEMATOGRAPHER: JAMES JOHN

'This Foolish Love' is a fashion themed style music video commisioned by music artist Kubalove. 

Kubalove wanted something simple and sensual that showed off the dark desires of the song. Kubalove then added stills of stock images to enhance the mood.

Almost Home' is a short warming story I made of a rescue puppy and his journey into becoming more at peace in his forever home.

Riley is my family member, and he is my first animal family member, he is my best friend and has taught me a lot.

Riley would often stay up late and wait for me to come home, which often resulted in him being my model when I needed to test lenses.

This short film started off as a test for grading, but quickly turned into a piece I wanted to use to show the rewarding beauty of adopting a Rescue animal.

Realz is an energetic skilled Grime MC from East London. James was commisioned by his manager and record label to create a music video for his song "NO L's" featuring Blittz.

As soon as James listened to the song he heard how skilled and confident Realz's delivery and energy and lyrics are and said to his mamnager, Jamakabi "that's what needs to come across in the video". James came up with the idea to shoot a simpel performance video with energetic camera movement and editing to flow with the confidence of the song. Jamakabi had some great input on direction and finding locations to complete this confident music video.