A full on (but fun) day with The Subways in the studio. Much was achieved, loads of different looks and all of them worked ace I thought. Here's one, but there would loads of others. We work quick. Subways here.
Beautiful Jackson Browne for Mojo, out currently. What a huge honour and privilege, am super stoked about this one. He was the cool guy you knew he would be and we came away from this shoot with the broadest smiles. He was guesting with Jonathan Wilson and we stared in wonder throughout the soundcheck. Just great.
Jackson Browne for Mojo
Features popping up in Mojo now, which is bloody brilliant as it's a lovely mag and all the guys over there are cool. More on Nev here, a beautiful singer I reckon.
Nev Skelly for Mojo
At V2009 in Chelmsford she looked incredible. I was always stunned by her talent (I first shot her at Virgin Megastores years ago) and all that other stuff didn't matter I didn't think, until it did of course. My most hated thing is waste and her early demise is such a colossal, tragic waste.
Bye Amy
Design by Russell Moorcroft at Speak Media, portrait of Germain Burton by me. Event infohere.
Programme for Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb
See what I did there? See what they do here: http://www.youngandlostclub.com/
Nadia and Sara. They bring light to the shadows.
Brittabeaan portrait shoot
Wrestling with the elements a tad at the end of a fruitful weekend, here's a glimpse of the set up. Elinchrom Ranger, Skyport, big softbox, ropey white sheet and loads of gaffer tape. Perfect. Shot by Ed Bartlett.
Scissor Sisters backstage at Lovebox
If Pete's experiment is working. Though if attention grabbing, eye catching, gob smacking looks are the intention, the man is definitely succeeding.
I'm not sure...
Am now bugging that I didn't shoot Beth Ditto first time round with The Gossip but here she is, in a Be Here Now outtake and man do I regret all the more missing the boat with her. She's smashed the crowd to bits, received so much love and was wonderful to everyone who had contact with her, me included. Thank you Beth.
Beth Ditto at Lovebox 2011
I've just had a right result. Am backing up the shots from Lovebox, where we were side stage shooting for Be Here Now. Jameela Jamil was hosting and very obligingly stepped up to the plate to 'test my lights'. She's ace. Then The Doggfather, the legend, Snoop Dogg did the same, before and after his killer show. I'm buzzing. This project still excites me every time, and getting the calibre of Snoop on board will do wonders I bloody hope. Apologies for not releasing the image yet but we're holding loads back for the launch. It'll be worth it I swear.
Enormous score tonizzle.
More info on the next Rollapaluza event here.
Germain Burton
The future king of British cycling. Cool guy and huge talent, not to mention his muscles upon muscles. Shot for the wonderful Rollapaluza which is really good fun, if you enjoy short bursts of energy with an hour of nausea to follow.
Germain Burton for Rollapaluza
Beautiful looking and sounding London based fun from Big Deal. Could be worse.
Big Deal, yeah?
Now how about that.
Band of Horses in Classic Rock Magazine. Yup.
Lots of shoots this day but a lunchtime pie, pint and portrait at the Newman Arms was never going to be my worst day ever. Richard Hawley, what an artist. The whole deal here.
Richard Hawley for Mojo/Gibson/Glenfiddich
Take my word for it, I now know.
Cerebral Ballzy properly don't give an arse
Skanked around the corner from the Fly office and nabbed a quick moment with Rory, aka Warm Brains. Shot him for about 9 minutes and came away with a heap of winners. Please note added warmth. Super cool guy and don't be fooled by those sweet cheeks - he's heavy alright.
Rory 'Warm Brains' Attwell
Yuck's Jonny Rogoff. Coming to a 110000 magazines near you soon. We love you Yuck, please grace my lens again soon.
Yuck
This guy! Very possibly the most I've ever enjoyed myself on a shoot. Keith Lemon arrives in character and it doesn't slip for a second, the same as when I shot Avid Merrion (his previous incarnation) a few years ago. Hilariously indiscreet, gloriously up for anything, he nailed the shots in about 3 minutes and the rest were just for fun. See it on pack in Tesco's. Shot in the lovely Studio Private in Shoreditch.