‘Persona’ by James Martin and <br> ‘Autumn Sonata’ by Patrik Svensson

 2018 marks the 100th birthday of the ‘Shining Master Of Darkness’ Ingmar Bergman, arguably the greatest film director who ever lived, and we're very proud to announce that we will be releasing a series of posters celebrating his work over the next few months. 

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First up we have ‘Persona’ by James Martin and ‘Autumn Sonata’ by Patrik Svensson.

It's a pleasure to welcome James Martin to the BDP fold. James has a long and fruitful illustration career spanning decades that has seen him work with comics legend Neal Adams, and for film directors including Spike Lee, Jean Pierre Jeunet, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, as well as a 20 year stint at Walt Disney Feature Animations and DreamWorks. He currently teaches illustration at the Ringling College of Art and Design in California.

“This was a dream job for me. I consider Persona one of the landmarks of the film-making art and coming on the 100 th Anniversary of Bergman’s birth made the project all the more appropriate. Trying to capture the many faceted psychological aspects of the film in one image was a challenge. This led to a long ideation process as I strove to capture the psychological aspects of Bergman’s film and the stark lighting of Sven Nykvist. Working in a larger format offered more opportunities to explore texture and lighting subtleties.” – James Martin

‘Persona’ comes in three versions: the beautifully cool blue 9-colour regular, a red 10-colour variant and a special Somerset paper variant signed by James Martin. The quality of the printing on this will leave you wondering if these are screen prints at all (in a good way).