• AI Motion

    One thing I love about AI is the ability to take one type of media and change it into another. This started off life as a still image, but then with a little bit of AI wizzardry, hey presto, it’s now a video!

    Shooting in the Netherlands

    Working in a different country to the one I’m based in always brings different challenges. But being used to all the extra hurdles does make them less difficult, and this fantastic shoot went off without a hitch 🙂 Though the heat and the noise is something you can’t grasp until you actually get into the factory itself. Many miles later, I had one happy client!

    British Journal of Photography

    I’m featured in the 2023 Portrait of Britain awards book 🙂 It’s just wonderful to have a double page spread in a real life book! What with all the tech running around these days, it’s still hard to beat the feel and warmth of a book, and the positivity you’ll receive from such a tactile and generous entity. You can buy the book here

    Working with Dancers

    Is so fulfilling even when the shot is not about dance per se, because they think of their bodies as you would an instrument. And while the rest of us are being bashful and a bit gauche, they’re already busting some moves and letting it all, emotionally as well as physically, all hang out! 

    BBQueens for Unilever

    The Vegetarian Butcher was looking to do something fun, exciting, and out of the ordinary to promote their fab vegan meat substitutes! Doing the stills / videos / reportage / studio portraits / product shots, all in one day was one of those challenges I like!

    Trivium Packaging

    Shooting their new website … so good, it’s winning awards. After looking after the casting, styling, props and locations, the’ve asked me back for more – which is the cherry on the cake!

    Fresh & Breezy

    Can you spot that it was cold, windy … and out in the open?

    What a client wants, a client gets 🙂

    Shooting for the BBC

    Two shoots with Zara McDermott for her programs with the BBC, on hard hitting subjects. They were so pleased with the shots for the first program’s identity plate, they asked me to shoot the second as well.

    Salad Dressing, Definition:

    noun: /ˈsæl.əd ˈˌdres.ɪŋ /
      A s    seasoned mixture of liquids that is added to a salad.

    British Journal of Photography – Winner

    Decade of Change – Award. So nice to be among the winners, and to be exhibited in Hong Kong and New York. The award is about the change that’s needed wrt the Climate Crisis – it was a single image from my series centred around the recyclers of Dhapa in Kolkata, India which won.

    Behind The Scenes video

     

    The story of a shoot, shot over 1 day, with 12 models and 16 crew 

    Big shoots are very tricky to get right, primarily because there’s so much to get wrong. That’s one of the reasons why I’m always so keen to plan shoots, even the small ones. But after multiple days prepping and planning, organising and corralling, the big day comes and then, to a certain extent, it’s my job to let go of the lists!

    The whole process is like landing a jumbo, while having tea with the passengers!

    Double Award Winning: William Hill, Problem Gambling

     

    Gold Award – Corporate Content Awards, and Shoot The Face Awards

    I think this series of images deserve their awards – it was striking that the team from MerchantCantos and William Hill were keen to push the boundaries in order to tell the story. It was great to be involved early in the process, because the message is such a difficult one to deliver visually, and something that we had to tease out in a responsive and responsible fashion. See more about the campaign on the MerchantCantos site here.

    Jarrad Comley, Partner and Executive Creative Director called me in to talk about this, visual storytelling and so much more – check out the vid above!