Second look for Tom Szirtes aka Shur-i-kan

So me and Tom worked up a few different feels, as he needed to refresh his public profile and press shots. What better way then to confuse matters by having the DJ and producer weirdly gripping onto some balloons to illustrate his partying credentials, in his wedding suit, standing over you in the rain. Listen to his music, it'll all make sense; The Dark Energy Radio Show.

Shur-i-kan at Tom Towers for portrait session

Great to see Shur-i-kan aka Tom Szirtes before my lens once more. Such a handsome chap and always makes for a worthy frame. He's been a talented purveyor of quality house since I don't know when, catch his podcast if you enjoy deepness.

PABH galleries on the-fly.co.uk

The tireless wheel of unrelenting self-promotion continues to somehow trundle forward, dragging behind it my laboured efforts and demonstrating to you, dear viewer, that I still care enough about The Craft to alternately scrabble around on the floor then star jump into the air for your momentary attention. See here, some galleries of my work from the wonderfully free-briefed Fly magazine shoots I enjoy each month. I do love it all, am only messing. Look and click if you like, it's really up to you. (Sorry, I'm quite tired)

PiL in The Guardian

Nice to see the fruit of my toil in the Guardian's A Week in Music, originally shot for Mojo and despite being quite concerned (fearful of a possibly less than up-for-it subject) about the shoot (forewarned is forearmed, unless your information turns out to be wrong), John Lydon was super obliging and performed a 20 minute jam for me to shoot. So relieved was I post-shoot, we hung about and laid on the grass and chatted. Not what I had imagined, I prefer to hightail out of there rather than linger, you know, it's more pro.

Bon Iver wins 2 Grammys! Bloody brilliant!

He's just the loveliest bloke and you can't help but feel great when someone so gifted and just NICE gets recognised at the Grammys. I thought it was all a bit mainstream for what he does and I'm happy to say I was wrong. Justin is a photographer too and knew all about the Canon 85mm f1.2 I was hosing on our shoot, which was honestly a tad unsettling. Many congratulations sir (if you're reading this which I doubt very much).

Field Music in a caff in The Fly in February issue

Tea was 60p. I got to shoot Field Music at bloody last after loving them for what feels like, at least like, months. Possibly longer. Nice chaps and very much at home in a North London caff. Cheers!

Chairlift in Feb Fly

That is something special, you ain't wrong Fly Mag. Caroline is incredible to shoot and the kind of subject one wishes for constantly in life.

Speech feature shot

Speech feature in The Fly. Nice tone, thanks to Ross Shields. He da man.

NOW THAT'S A FEATURE SPREAD THAT IS.

Love that. Loads. Pulled Apart By Horses - smashing a crowd to fuck in a sweatpit, barn, field, enormodome near you very soon.

Feb contents page. Cold and clean with Speech Debelle

She's so awesome. Went on about it previously so won't repeat myself but a great shoot with a killer artist down at Ninja Tunes.

Pulled Apart By Horses February 2012

Latest Fly mag with the devastatingly huge PABH. Just the perfect shoot. Great drive up, fun shootings in their own environment, nailed it exactly as planned, so you know, a success. 112000 copies winging their way nationally today. Boomtown.

Lovely shoot at Central St Martins

Loads more but this one broadly tells the story I thought. Anyway, a nice couple of hours spent wandering the fashion course in the new beautifully lit building of Central St Martins in Kings Cross, the school that heralds many a successful protege of course, look 'em up. They're working on a first rate brief for the British Horseracing Authority, hence my wonderfully unbridled free rein. Ahem.

Horrors for Agenda magazine

Possibly my favourite shoot from last year - The Horrors photographed on their studio rooftop for the incredible Skying LP. Agenda in Belgium saw the shots and asked me to splash it on their mag cover (in support of their tour). I of course happily said yes and am really pleased with their stylish usage. What a smug GIT.

Noah poster gets Oldham love

And it was on that big screen on the Graham Norton show, uh huh. Yup.

RB and UB in JA

Bit of a contrast to last time I was in JA shooting the old school of reggae greats, those remaining dons that pretty much invented the sound. Nice to be back though, especially when shooting the fastest man to ever have walked the planet.

Usain Bolt (plus beard) for Virgin Media

An incredible opportunity to head to Jamaica and shoot stills of Usain Bolt filming an ad for Virgin Media, with Sir Richard Branson in a supporting role. Haven't seen the final cut yet but the shoot was really funny and a really enjoyable experience (not always the case when shooting stills on video shoots) and almost needless to say, Usain is the coolest man on a very cool island. And he rides around on a quad bike.

Rumer in Mojo

Grabbed from the side of the stage, I shot this through what felt like a letterbox in amongst the rigging and all sorts. No pit access required an increase in creative shooting which turned out to be no bad thing - once extra access had been gained of course. Lovely usage in Mojo, a handsome spread indeed.

Speech Debelle LP no.2 cometh forthwith

4 set ups in 30 mins. Blazing into 2012 with a scorching shoot rate, yeah. Some of them looked pretty nice too, pheweeeee. All the everything on Speech here, welcome back.

Spector look cool, huh.

Forgot to mention where to view the new mag if you can't get your mitts on one of the multi-covered hardcopy gems - right here. Listen to this while you're at it maybe, by contrast.