Description

This striking monochrome advertising portrait for Church's Spring 2025 campaign, titled 'Stage Craft' and photographed by Phil Poynter with creative direction by David James, features actor Theo James. He is captured walking forward on a concrete studio floor, dressed in a sharply tailored light-coloured suit, white shirt, dark tie, and dark leather shoes. The set design incorporates a large backdrop showing a scenic coastal landscape featuring a rocky cliff and ocean alongside wooden studio flats and empty chairs. Styled by Tom Guinness, the composition blends polished tailoring with raw backstage set elements, rendered in a crisp black-and-white tonal finish.