Barcelona Photo Blog
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Working with Humaans!
The Client was Humaans. After a few quiet months a decent job! and for Humaans. Not a typo, its a company name. You can only rely on foreign companies to pay anything half way decent, the local market is basically for pocket money. The job for Humaans came via a recommendation from a mother…
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That Day on Montseny
The Montseny Hike Too many months of lock-down. Then a window opened, for a while, and you could almost live a normal life. My oldest friend by sheer coincidence ended up moving to Barcelona as well. His son was playing at a football academy . Now Brett loves a hike and occasionally I go along. …
Football Academies Photo Shoots
Barcelona is famous for its football academies. In fact, youth teams come here from places like the UK because of the chance to play on the Camp Nou pitch. This I know because several years ago a very large group (50 youth teams) turned up… and it was hell. I wrote about it at the…
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JC & The Echo Chamber
JC & The Echo Chamber I met JC from JC & The Echo Chamber at Soho House when I was a member. He asked me if I would do some photos of them whilst they shot a video. This was the start of a series of shoots I would do. Publicity work, rehearsals, and…
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Decor Video Editing
Decor Video Editing A job for Decor. During lockdown, I decided to learn more about video editing and postproduction. I had started with Apple’s Final Cut Pro, but after being burned when they dropped Aperture, I decided to switch to Davinci Resolve. I have often been asked to shoot videos on jobs and decided with…
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Motocross in Olvan
Wilkinson Motocross Racing Team in Olvan Though most people could not travel in early 2020, some people including pro sports types could. So one day we made a trip into the middle of the Catalan Countryside to film Motocross. Well, a special kind of motocross that involves special bikes with sidecars. It is a niche…
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Albert Ferrer, Me and My Medals
Albert Ferrer ‘Chapi.’ The Times Newspaper. Though Covid has affected work terribly I did get a couple of jobs from UK newspapers which tend to be interesting and relatively well paid jobs. Albert lives out of Barcelona in a small town called Masnou. I went with my friend Brett who has a car and a…
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Pento; 50 Portraits in Four Hours
Pento event at the Arts Hotel. As I mentioned in another post there was a brief hiatus in the ongoing Covid saga that allowed me to get some real work. Another one of these clients was Pento who held a quite large event over several days at the Art Hotel. They contracted me to go…
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Mailersend Brought Back the Good Old Days
Mailersend and Mailerlite event photography. It’s fair to say that Covid hammered the availability of work, as most of the real work I get comes from foreign clients. During a period when things relaxed for a while companies based in the northern parts of Europe made their escape to sunnier climes and for a short while…
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Kuala Lumpur, A City After the Storm
The humidity after the storm was overwhelming; I soon came to learn that Kuala Lumpur is always a city after the storm. The taxi from the airport took an age, the traffic jam and the torrential rain reduced everything to a crawl; All you could see out of the windows was an en endless smudge…
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partycasino saved me from Halloween
A late job with partycasino saved me from fancy-dress hell. I hate fancy dress, even as a kid and Halloween, it never floated my boat. The event I was photographing was kind of themed but, no ghouls in sight. You deal directly with a corporate communications companies, which is the normal way of doing things. …
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Jordi Petriz, from Telescope to Microscope
The beach seemed as good as a place as any to start the job. Jordi Petriz was the subject.The theme was where he liked to go when not in the laboratory… I really was hoping to spend time in the laboratory, the potential for over-the-top lighting and all that tech. Hey ho. The client was…
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Beach Sports in Barcelona
I came to a conclusion a while ago that sports photography might be an ideal speciality for me. It has the advantages of fashion, hopefully without some of the problems. That is a subject for another day! Basically, you are photographing people who look good doing interesting things and one would hope wearing colourful or dramatic clothing.…
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Home Studio; Cost Effective Portraits
I would love to have a studio. But I don’t particularly want to spend my life working in one; I still prefer the idea of environmental portraits. But, at times the ease of a studio is very seductive. So, home studio or even pop-up studio, call it what you will. If the results are good…
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Grace Farms; Old fashioned Liberalism Reclining in New Canaan
One day we took a trip out of NYC to visit Grace Farms, located in the very biblical sounding New Canaan. Grand Central Station was impressive and as always manic; the train journey not. A lot of people complain about the service in the US but I like it and starting from Grand Central is…
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Carlo Scarpa, the Most Famous Architect You Never Heard Of?
I had never heard of Carlo Scarpa until I started planning a trip to Italy with my girlfriend, an architect from NYC. She is a big fan of his work. Am I just being lazy? For sure. However, it’s also true that I just don’t have much patience for all verbiage that gets written or…
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A Jewellery Shoot, 3 Stories and a Lot of Drama
These images from a jewellery project have gone up rather late in the day, the truth is the job was intense. I walked into the meeting as a photographer and left as the production manager. I should have been more suspicious. Basically they handed me a budget and then did the equivalent of running to the hills… taking the images…
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Dar Roumana, a Gem Hidden in a Labyrinth
Dar Roumana is within the Medina of Fez. I had been to Morocco one time before, also for work. That was in Casablanca, working for Harvard, you can read about it here. I wouldn’t say I am a fan of Casablanca, my disappointment compounded because I loved the film. The reality is that it’s very…
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Photographing Warehouses and Workers for Bunzl
These jobs came via a UK based agency called AAB Design. The first job was for Bunzl. Their warehouse and offices are near El Prat Airport, I was there to photograph the space and the workers. The second time was maybe 2 years later, near Cabrera de Mar. The company was Cemelin and Bunzl had recently…
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Several different shoots over several days for NTTcom
I have done several sessions with NTTCom covering various different disciplines. Firstly there was the usual corporate headshot type of photography. On another day I was there for an in-house conference, where the top brass from the NTTCom at the Tokyo headquarters flew in to inspire the troops. This lasted half a day and then…
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Pia and Her Family Do Barcelona With No Selfie-Sticks in Sight
It happens occasionally that you get clients who don’t want to spend their day out using selfie-sticks, preferring instead, have someone take the photos for them. It is hard to work out the progression of photography in this regard; in the old days you went on holiday, took photos and sometimes got a stranger to…
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Given the run around for a day at Barça FC
Any photographer who gets a call to go and shoot with FC Barça is going to have an initial reaction of ‘yes!’ I reckon, even if they are FC Madrid fans. Any experienced photographer who is asked to do a shoot with a film crew, will most likely have a reaction something like ’hmmm…’ Even…
Cuban Night Life and Cuban Night Light
My third Cuban adventure. You can see images from the last visits here. The first thing I did, when I woke the first morning, was walk to the malecón as the sun came up. There were already fishermen perched on the wall, indifferent to the waves that lashed the defences. My first visit had been…
Wedding Day Photography? Maybe Not, but Everything Else…
I don’t do much wedding day photography these days, which is a shame, I always found it suited me well. Thinking on my feet, dealing with the stress (the good kind), that makes you creative, was perfect for me. You can even find a long neglected website which, surprisingly, still works, not sure who is paying for it……
Istanbul and Instagram, Late to the Game but Catching Up
Istanbul and Instagram is part 1 about my trip to the city and contains images shot on the iPhone. I have a list of places I want to go to and I have a friend who makes me go to them. The places tend to be the easier ones, the ones you could visit over a…
