The moment she does this it's job done I think. Great tone from her glam squad, solid performance from Mabel, megacrop courtesy of a Hasselblad H6D-100c. In the can. She's ace you know, more here, and a really nice brief to start the year from Music Week.
Love everything about this. More info here but very happy to contribute and donate a day to this fantastic organisation. Cold shoot up on Devil's Dyke in East Sussex. More info here.
I've only been waiting since I was ten to meet these fellas and after working with them and One Green Bean in Antigua in December (slap me if you ever catch me moaning) we met up again for their press shots. Obviously, they're cool. And they are this funny. And I loved Signing Off when I was a kid, and Present Arms In Dub, which they graciously signed for me = lifegoal achieved. They've a new LP and have put a bunch of darkness behind them - well, they certainly had on our shoot day. Everything lovely.
Look at Vegan Magic on Instagram - she's a wonderfully glorious animal lover, vegan campaigner and passionate believer in putting out a positive energy into the world. I bumped into her in the park once and just loved this jacket. Then we spoke and I loved her message, so we did a shoot. The sun Gods favoured us and here we go. Shot to card on a Hasselblad H6D-100c with a bounce and that's it.
Like, what's the worst that could happen? You might meet me, you might get some free artwork on beautiful G. F Smith papers, you might discover something about the correlation between the brutal Icelandic weather, the incredible harshness of their weather and the inescapable successes of Icelandic athletes in the sport of crossfit? Surely that's not too bad.
Oh yeah, and big apologies too for being the worst blogger in all time. I feel terrible. So much has been happening all the time, it seems like this becomes the last priority when we are (I am) all so busy shouting our heads off for the short-lived glory of the multitudinous social media feeds we endure now. This being the best platform for expression still somehow seems to have fallen by the wayside a touch - so again, my apologies. More soon I swear.
Just a super famous guy who's been in two of the biggest TV series of all time then... Lovely to shoot a Shortlist cover, they're cool people creating a tasty mag with solid design, so it's all good with me. Shot in the Soho Hotel in London, he was soooooo jetlagged and chugging his way through whopping great coffees but surely delivered in a big way for our shoot. I love photographing actors you know - they can just turn it on. This was captured beautifully on a Hasselblad H6D-100c with a 100mm lens, with lighting by Broncolor Move as you never know what kind of power availability you might discover. All turned out lovely, as you can see.
Sir Bradley, aka Wiggo, in the hot seat for Skoda. Exciting to look down the barrel and see this legend training I have to say. I love this shot, for me the best imagery always lingers in the lulls between the main moments - that's where sports photography lives for me. Shot on Hasselblad H6D on a 50mm lens.
The project came about because for me it just had to.
I first visited in 2009, thanks to the marvellous NGO Riders for Health, on a whistle-stop shoot travelling through this remarkable mountain kingdom. On the winding, climbing roads I’d see herder boys working and could immediately see a story that I just couldn’t shake the image of - their silhouettes against the sky, these icons of Lesotho wrapped in the woollen blankets that provide their only protection from an intense sun or a brutal winter. The herder boys work astonishingly hard, for very low pay, in the toughest conditions imaginable. It is the only option available to some, who often have very little formal education and can enter into this employment from early childhood. Last November 2016, I was able to return to Lesotho to shoot these portraits and with some valuable assistance from the team at Riders I came home with some very special new work.
The exhibition has been supported very generously by Hasselblad. It has been printed and framed by Metro Imaging - the prints are truly stunning - and is being hosted at the White Space gallery (aka the old Photographers Gallery) just off Leicester Square in London from June 26th to July 1st 11-7pm daily. I'm really proud of it, please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.
Love this lot. Genuinely. They do such incredible work for Riders For Health and 19.5 million Africans with their transport solutions and I've loved working with them for ten years now.
Liam Bailey in the studio, sounding beautiful. Am a fan so you know, who doesn't like Blind Faith by Chase and Status huh?
More personal work, with the beautiful and fascinating ROY INC. Met him a few years ago and was a delight to get him back before my lens. He gets the whole thing beautifully and we came away with such a huge range of new work I could load this blog up til tomorrow. Shot on my Hasselblad H6D with Broncolor Move flash in Victoria Park East London. That's why he looks so good.
She's a vocalist, talent, star, big gun. Elisabeth Troy has sung on those tunes you've sung in your car, ran along the canal listening to on your headphones and wiggled your bum to whilst washing up and we got her in the studio to smash out some stunning portraits. She's incredible, a feat of wonder and she's welcome back anytime.
Excited, proud and nervous to announce a show of new work, to be held at the White Space gallery in London, with Hasselblad supporting and printing and framing by Metro Imaging. I travelled to Lesotho last November with the sole intention of documenting a story I saw back in 2009, when I first visited there with Riders For Health. That time I was shooting a motorcycle tour through the winding roads of the mountain kingdom, and from our 4WD we'd spot these incredible looking characters standing on hillsides looking over their herds. I swore then I'd return and while it took a few years, I finally got to shoot a project that could well be the best thing I've ever done. You best be the judge of that but I am feeling it A LOT. I'll be releasing the images soon but in the meantime, I owe huge thanks all over town for this so I best get cracking. Save the date and please come!
Never great hearing the mag you really enjoy working with is being pulled when you're on set. A first even for me, but we ploughed on with Jamie here and nailed some lovely images that became all the more poignant with John Mahood's coverline 'The Party's Over' for the final issue of Sport Magazine. My portraits always looked great when John applied his magic and I'll miss this as an avenue for what I do. Huge thanks and commiserations to all involved and a massive shout out to all the dickheads everywhere. Cheers.
Always, always wanted to shoot this cat since, ooh I dunno, 25 years now. He was always the coolest of the Northerners I thought, stylish and just a cut above. I heard he can be quite edgy but was well up for this on shoot day, as you can see here. No added photo trickery on this one, it's all about Cash for Questions in Q and set the things alight was the man's response. Shot on Hasselblad H6D-50 with Bron Move and beauty dish. Easy life.
So the cover of Runners World, Sport Magazine and this DPS from the Guardian. A great shoot with the big man and all wrapped in 15 minutes...
Incredible to share the same air as this cat, who's significantly shaped music for the good in his long career. Johnny told us fantastic stories, had got the lunch in and was so easy to shoot I could have hugged him by the end. Interestingly he had thought through all the shots he wanted to do, so I just had to squeeze some of my own past him, including this one, and we were back on the train. Shot on Hasselblad H6D, to top it all.
CNN came in to film me in the studio whilst shooting The Slumflower. Here's the movie, right here. We had a great time as she knows the way of the lens and can fashion her fashions in record time. 9 looks in 1 bag in 1 day. Heroic efforts the likes of which are previously unheard of.