In January Waterloo Film Studios played host to renowned costume designer Andrea Galer who was photographing Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks, Silk and Whitechapel), and Camilla Power (Silk, Injustice, Waterloo Road, Harley Street).

Andrea is planning to shoot a pilot featuring both Penry-Jones and Powers, plus a series of six documentary films about ethical trading in textiles and commodities inspired by her work with craftspeople around the world. For the photo shoot in Studio 3, the actors wore silk lace woven by the women supported by a charity organization that Andrea established.

The POWER OF HANDS FOUNDATION was founded five years ago by Andrea in the wake of the tsunami in Sri Lanka. Originally set up as a base to train and assess women lace-makers skills and needs in order to preserve traditional skills and enable the women to earn their way out of poverty.

The photographer on this project was Chris Bissell and the video production was done by regular Waterloo Film Studios users Peter Chipping and Trevor Rogers, both from Stingray Productions.

For more information please visit Power of Hands Foundation