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Across the Line

A multimedia platform and creative agency backing athletes, creators and niche sports. Ashwin is Head of Photography and has shot the cover editorial for every volume to date.

The brief

Athletes who are not usually photographed like this.

Niche sport coverage tends to arrive in two flavours: the action frame, shot from the stands, or the gym-lit promo portrait. Across the Line wanted neither. The mandate was to give creators and athletes outside the mainstream the same treatment a marquee name gets on a fashion cover — lighting, styling, and a point of view about who they are away from the event.

As Head of Photography, Ashwin sets the visual language for each volume and shoots the cover story himself, working with the volume's creative director and producer so the imagery and the written features carry the same argument.

Vol. 2

Selected frames.

Across the Line Vol. 2: athlete in motion. — Vol. 2 — movement.

Across the Line Vol. 1: cover frame. — Vol. 1 — cover frame.

Vol. 2 credits

Who made it.

Across the Line Vol. 2 — April 2026
Role	Name
Head of Photography	Ashwin Mitchell
Executive Producer	Niki Iyer
Creative Director	Shruthi Nattanmai
Producer	Cara-Lynn Branch
HMUA	Emmulani Howe
Wardrobe Assistant	Kareem El-Arab

Full crew credits for Vol. 1 and Vol. 3: PLACEHOLDER — not in the content brief

What it demonstrates

Editorial that has to ship.

The Getaway shows what he does with a free hand. Across the Line shows the same eye inside a real production: a creative director's brief, a producer's schedule, hair, make-up and wardrobe on the day, and a publication date that does not move.

Three volumes in, the visual language is consistent enough to be recognisable and loose enough that each subject gets their own treatment — which is the actual job of a head of photography.

Need a cover story?

Editorial from $1,500 a shooting day, priced per project — concept and creative direction through final delivery.

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