John Hutchinson

My photos in 2012 LMGA Calendar

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:28:27 +0000

The Location Managers Guild of America is an organization of Location Scouts and Managers, based in Los Angeles, but with members around the world. I was fortunate enough to have some of my photos included in the 2012 Calendar, on the cover and in the New York, Louisiana and New Mexico sections. Here are some pages from the calendar:

Sam Bayer & CSX

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:29:02 +0000

The goal was to find a high angle shot where we could see active CSX train tracks with a highway on one side and a river on the other. I scouted the CSX rail line from Syracuse down to the edge of NYC. I found the hero location on the Mohawk River, up above NYS Route 5, between Amsterdam and Schenectady. Sam Bayer directed, and the production company was HSI.

Senegal for IBM

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:25:46 +0000

One of my favorite international scouting/casting jobs was for IBM in Senegal. I leapfrogged around the world for the director Lenny Dorfman and a crew from Radical Media. I flew into Dakar, Senegal in the middle of the night, after flights from JFK and Paris, and started scouting locations and casting friends, family and coaches of the captain of the Senegalese womans’ Olympic basketball team. A few days later, the crew flew in from NYC, and we quickly shot the spot in the streets and basketball courts of Dakar, in 100 degree heat and humidity. We had a blast! When we finished, I flew off to do the same thing in Montreal and Australia, while other people handled Ireland and Harlem.

Jimmy Choo Cruise in NYC

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:10:13 +0000

I scouted the ’shorelines’ of NYC this summer for the Jimmy Choo Cruise 12 Collection. It was shot by Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer, and produced by Nice Productions.

Paris in New York

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:50:01 +0000

For the Fall 2011 Nina Ricci campaign, I was asked to find a location that could double for Paris, in the NYC area. With the Tuileries Gardens in mind, I scouted a number of grand estates, looking for the wide white gravel paths that are so typically Parisian. The photographers were Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and it was styled by Alex White. The shoot was produced by Nice Productions. We found Paris in Long Island.

Gap 1969

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:28:23 +0000

I did a job this summer for Gap’s new campaign for its brand 1969. I scouted throughout the New York area, including the Catskills, for locations that would represent various places, like Portland, Oregon. The photographer was Cass Bird, and the producer Joy Asbury, of joyasburyproductions.com.

Locations Magazine 2011

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:03:18 +0000

I had two photos published in the 2011 edition of Locations Magazine, the magazine of the Association of Film Commissioners International. One photo was of an abandoned grocery store in Great Barrington, MA, which was included in a feature called Main Street USA. The other was the front photo of the Locations in Pictures section, which includes photos by location scouts around the world. The photo is of a graphic NYC location, 12th Avenue under Riverside Drive. (The cover shot is by L.A. location scout extraordinaire, and my good friend, Geoff Juckes.)

Jagger at the Apthorp

admin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:02:01 +0000

Georgia May Jagger appeared in a story I worked on for the September 2010 issue of W. I scouted a classic Manhattan apartment in the legendary Apthorp building, whose residents have included Nora Ephron, Cyndi Lauper and Al Pacino. The photographer was Craig McDean, and it was styled by Alex White.

Fidelity on The High Line

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:26:46 +0000

I had the pleasure of scouting a series of Fidelity spots for director Todd Field and producer Cory Berg of Trio Films. In this spot, we used New York City’s High Line as a location for the first time. Working with the gracious cooperation of the The High Line and the Standard Hotel, the production was completed successfully, without inconveniencing the public.

Bear Grylls in West Virginia

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:58:19 +0000

I recently scouted and managed some Degree deodorant commercials and Internet episodes in West Virginia. The ongoing series is called the Chain of Adventure, featuring Bear Grylls, star of the Discovery Channel’s Man Vs. Wild. Also appearing in the spots were several sports celebrities, including Mark Messier (hockey,) Mark Sanchez (football,) Kevin Durant (basketball,) and Tony Hawk (skateboarding.) I began scouting in the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks, but I soon realized we had to shoot in West Virginia. In addition to impressive cliffs and a drop zone for a parachute/skateboard stunt, we needed massive, dam release whitewater in the fall, and I found all of these in the beautiful New River Gorge area.