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Dial +1 762 247 5978 to catch Bafic somewhere between a shot and a render. The photographer and director has a body of work that doesn’t just capture culture, but subtly redirects it.
Based in London, Bafic has worked with a slate of names that define the visual landscape: Adidas, Asics, Channel 4, Facebook, Kiko Kostadinov, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Off-White, Palace, the New Yorker and more. His images carry that rare kind of precision that feels instinctive. Not styled, but inevitable.
In Sub Eleven Seconds, his short documentary on sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, Bafic meditates on speed, loss, and time itself. Executive produced by the late Virgil Abloh, the film premiered at Sundance 2022 and secured him a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Arts & Culture that same year.
Skate Nation Ghana, co-directed for Facebook, won the Grand Prix at Ciclope, a Silver Lion at Cannes, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Warning! (his cryptic object-based intervention) continues to resurface on phones, mirrors, and laptops like a message meant just for you.
And then there’s the other thing: Bafic might be the most connected person in the room, without ever making it feel like a flex. Still Kelly founder Marc Kalman called him everyone’s best friend when I visited him in his office last week. Skinny Macho told me the same thing over dinner just now, unprompted.
But I didn’t need any external validation, I already felt it when I first met him a few weeks ago in New York when he was in town to shoot Andre 3000 for a project we were both working on. Since then we’ve talked about AI, the better Steve Jobs film (not the Ashton Kutcher one…), and his upcoming work.
In our latest catch up we talk about our dads. The church. The Egyptian wing at the MET. But mostly we talk about the future. What we’re building, what we’re excited about. What are you excited about?
Two brains I love!