Director / Photographer / Writer

Tom Emmerson

London, UK / France

Director, writer and photographer known for a bold visual aesthetic and surreal, off-the-wall humour. Started shooting stills at fourteen, and by eighteen had photographed global campaigns for helmut Lang, Burberry, fila and Axel arigato. Directed his first music video while studying economics at university and decided he would rather make films he loves than spreadsheets he hates. His videos for the London rapper AntsLive broke him: “number one candidate”, a neo-Western shot in the Italian Dolomites after the artist took a crash course in horseback riding, with DP Isaac Eastgate and colourist Joseph Bicknell, and “Captain Ants” won the UKMVA for best hip hop video two years running, 2023 and 2024, earning him nominations for Best New Director and Best Director, and over five million views across YouTube and TikTok. Also Mimi Webb, Col3trane, A$AP Nast, and Doechii & JT “Alter Ego”. Commercials: adidas Originals, House of Errors, HERMÈS, a Depop campaign, KFC with GK Barry, an adidas football Boot Launch with Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham and Jude Bellingham, and New Balance’s T500 with Endrick and Jack Harlow, which he wrote and directed. Representation Arc: first signed to Pulse Films in March 2023 (his first production company), then Business Club in July 2024, Serial Pictures in the US from June 2025, and Le Berg in Germany, with his own Emmerson Films throughout.