It's not weird but it is fun and everything's going very well so far thank you. This was shot at the Best Coast show out the back of an Urban Outfitters store. Yup.
Florence in Living South magazine, no less
Yup, in your face fancy pants fashion magazines. Have some of THAT. Well spotted @EdBartlett.
23 seconds with Sir Richard Branson
The man is a whirlwind of a powerhouse with a diary more like the phonebook. He crams more into a day than I ever imagined possible and having spent 8 hours with him yesterday, I realise I could definitely squeeze more into my life. He's @RichardBranson if you'd like evidence of this.
Dry The River feature shot in The Fly's March issue
Froze my bits off for you I did. Worth it though, I think anyway. Who needs bits?
First effort for Huffington Post
Hi. So my first blog for the Huffington Post is up, click here to view it. It's the story of a great fun shoot I did with Graham Coxon for The Fly, and so memorable were it that I thought I'd document the process in full and share it with your good self, dear viewer. Recorded forever, on the HuffPo. Something for the grand kids, you know. Heritage.
Friends feature spread in The Fly March
That's alright innit. Digi version? Scroll through here and feast your peepers.
Dry The River in March Fly
What's up with me + contents pages? I dunno. It's been a good week for contents pages. Stop saying contents pages. Right - a shoot on a Hackney rooftop with the currently soaring Dry The River. Loads of powerful flash in their faces to combat a very bright sun. Cool guys and a great sound. They hate being called the next Coldplay so I won't do that. DRY THE RIVER.
March 2011 Fly with Friends
Had a great time with this, shot at MKII Studios with Friends - who you could describe as 'up for it'. A wall, a rope, why not? Online issue of the mag here, if you fancy it. Or just listen to this. I love this.
Florence portrait from Mojo lead feature
Nice one Mojo. Proper feature with Florence and the most perfect page layout - any snapper would surely agree...
King of the contents page, that's me
Lovely contents page for Florence featuring in Mojo. Feels very nice to have a big splash in a great title like Mojo.
The Ministry of Stories: A good place to go for a laugh
Dave Eggers started it in the US, Nick Hornby embraced the idea here and the Ministry of Stories is the physical embodiment of a wonderful idea that has a monster supply shop out front and out back - a classroom for writing workshops for the kids of Hoxton (who aren't the trendies you might imagine). I did their team portraits the other day, solely because I think they're fantastic and I love what they do. They need help and involvement so if you have a skill, maybe they can use it. Why not try, you could have a laugh with Dee like I did.
Ed Sheeran for Be Here Now - we're back on the road
Here's me at work backstage at War Child's big gig at Shepherd's Bush Empire this week. I know a few of you are new visitors so if you don't know what the heck Be Here Now is, well, fair enough. It's a project I'm working on shooting loads and loads of interesting, sweaty, fun, nervous, exhilarating artists the immediate second before and the very second after they perform on stage. It's bloody brilliant and we've some massive great whoppers up our sleeves (for now). So do stay tuned, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/beherenow and FB and all that good stuff. Thanks.
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.