One creative. Start to finish. Every time.
I'm Colin Bibby: filmmaker and photographer at Fairford Studios. Twenty years in marketing taught me what a brand needs from a film. Seven behind the camera taught me how to make it.
“When you work with Fairford, you get me: my eye, my experience, my investment in making something worth making.”
I've worked across the UK, Ireland and Europe with brands like Trek, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Argos. I've won awards, including EU Digital Marketer of the Year at Trek, and built campaigns that moved product, grew communities and changed how people felt about a brand.
Now I work alone, on purpose. No handoffs, no middlemen. Every project starts with your audience, builds on a clear plan and ends with something that performs, and something you're proud of.
But none of that is why I started Fairford Studios.
- Sport
- Music & events
- Travel
- Weddings
Ken Dearing. Mayfair, London.
My grandfather Ken started Fairford Studios in 1960 in Mayfair, London. He created everything: greeting cards, wallpaper, product advertisements, lavish interior displays for the capital's major department stores. There was nothing he wouldn't turn his hand to, and nothing he didn't care about.
In time, he moved his studio to Suffolk. It was there, during long summer holidays, that I first understood what it meant to be a creative who gives everything to the work.
Read Ken's story
The Poacher, Cratfield
My grandad created all the artwork for a local pub in Cratfield, Suffolk, including the pub sign hanging outside. On summer holidays, he'd draw a hand-drawn map for me and my cousins to follow through the countryside to find him and my uncle there.
A creative who put that much of himself into a pub sign. That's the studio I want to run.
★★★★★
“Colin's hard work and dedication is second to none. He was a great laugh, and felt like ‘one of the girls’ in the group, giving them the space they needed to still enjoy the event, while also making sure he captured the shots required.”Willen Hospice · Midnight Moo event film
Sixty-six years of story. Your brand next.
No agency, no account managers. Just someone who grew up watching what it looks like when a person cares about every piece of work.