Tim and Gend
A couple of old friends of mine came to the studio to get some ‘serious headshots’ done. As you can see, this is not exactly what happened. and in case you were wondering – no photoshop was hurt in the making of these images.
Quentin Cooper
Quentin Cooper is one of the most interesting and enjoyable people to talk to on the planet*. I met him in Heathrow airport a while ago and have stayed in touch ever since. He’s a friendly, smiley individual who would describe himself as ‘knowing a little bit more than just …
Laura Whitmore: EE BAFTA Red Carpet PR shot
Laura Whitmore strode into the Beaufort bar in the Savoy hotel, resplendent in her Aqua-marine Halston Heritage dress and Jimmy Choo’s and immediately gave me shit about saying she looked ‘rad’. Apparently the 80′s want their vocabulary back. I was shooting Laura for a press-release by M&C Saatchi for Everything …
Personal Project: White
After watching Dr. James Fox’s series ‘A History Of Art in Three Colours‘ on the amazing BBC Four, I was struck by his description of Le Corbusier’s stark bone-white designs. I had an image of the high contrast white architecture stuck in my head for ages and it was something …
Jameson Irish Whiskey – David Smith Limited Edition
Jameson commisioned David Smith to design a limited edition bottle for them, they then asked me to go and shoot him for the press release. Unless you are the sort of person who is in the habit of knowing about traditional ornamental glass art (or are a big fan of …
Benedict Cumberbatch joins EE RSA BAFTA Jury
Well the title says it all really – provided you know that EE stands for Everything Everywhere, RSA stands for Rising Star Award and BAFTA stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts. I shoot this panel every year (or at least I have for the last 4) and …
Scot Williams
I first met Scot on the set of Hard Boiled Sweets, for which I did a bit of ‘B camera’ filming and shot the posters (on the same camera interestingly enough). He’s a proud scouser (a truism perhaps) with an interesting chat and a love of the Beatles. We got …
Putting the ‘Van’ in Vans Footwear
Everyone knows Vans footwear. It’s a brand who’s name and image transcend the niche-market into the mainstream while managing to still stay relevant and indeed celebrated within fickle world of skateboarding in which they took their first steps Founded in 1966 by Steven Van Doren’s (the jocund and friendly chap at …
Shanaze ‘The Blaze’ Reade
I should start by saying that I made Shanaze ‘The Blaze’ Reade nickname up myself. If, coincidentally it has been used in the past then I will retroactively sue. Yeah. Right, moving on, this is a shoot I did for Red Bull a while back. Shanaze’s signing was still as …
Professor Green – Network Rail
Professor Green is an enigmatic proponent of the every more popular North London rap scene. In line with the genre itself, his musical career has gone from local obscurity to global perspicuity (Not many can say their pen has crafted an Olympic anthem). Wikipedia tells me his career started in rap battling with his friends. …
Spotify iPad App – Spotipad
There is a reason I don’t name apps for a living. Labrinth is the stage name of Timothy McKenzie (according to Wikipideia), he’s a producer and performer of some note with the youth. I like to think that if he had been about in the 80′s his stage name might …
Cadbury’s Medals
Next time you see a video of someone having won some sort of medal being photographed notice how quickly they adopt the ‘biting the medal’ pose. The internet will have you believe that this action has a historical reference where, in the course of checking ones payment, one would bite …