Barcelona Photo Blog

An interview shot that needed space for text as always. I actually did not worry too much about this when shooting this image as I really liked the background and the colours and knew the magazine would just fade it out or as it turned out apply a somewhat weird pinkish wash… I have learned…

On a sunny but very chilly and windy day I and  the journalist, plus the editor of Metropolitan Magazine drove to the nature reserve near the airport (El Prat) of Barcelona. The light was spectacular. I found myself shooting into the sun most of the time but the final results lack the usual diffusion, helped in part…

I am posting this image because it got me some work! I was contacted recently about a job in Geneva. Elena (Brain Bazaar) cited this image as one she particularly liked, I had completely forgotten about it, but remember the day quite well, not least because about a year later I was photographing a girl…

I have said before that interview pieces need a lot of dead space for text and often I shoot images for myself framed to remove this from the shot. In this example I decided to take advantage of a handy step ladder and get a little higher, we were at her office/studio where they create…

This guy is an Austrian photographer, who has made a success out of postcards and various printed products, a good example of how a business brain probably serves you better than just having good ideas. I wanted to play around with gels for this and after figuring a place to put him that showed off…

Heidi was the third person I had to photograph for the integration story, she  lives outside of Barcelona and is a classical musician who has married a Catalan. Luckily she was going to be at a funfair on Montjuic with her husband and kids, so I decided to try and do shots there. She did…

Joaquin Beltran is not Asian but he is a professor of Asian Studies at the University. This particular campus is situated outside of Barcelona, maybe not the most pretty places but i like modern architecture because you can play with form and shadow in a way you can’t with classic buildings I scouted around whilst…

This was the first picture, in a series for an article about integration into Barcelona life for Asian people in general. I went to visit the restaurant Monica’s parents run one afternoon at a quiet hour, the family were eating lunch but her father got up and insist I try his special green tea from…

Stephanie was a real laugh, we did a whole bunch of pictures just because it was fun hanging out with her, we even got some cool ones of her doing cart wheels in Raval (see Flickr if you are interested). She is from Canada and discovered a love of comedy stand up whilst living in Barcelona and…

These images are for a story about dogs and their owners and people who are involved in working with them. The main picture is of Santi, a dog psychologist, I photographed him in the park, the whole shoot took about 15 mins including tests, I was able to use a reflector which made for a…

This was an image taken for a story about people working in Barcelona during the sleepy, sweaty month of August. I think one day I will have to do a self portrait for these articles as I the common denominator in all these pictures! Angel was a nice guy, his wife is English and they…

I have always had a fascination about these giant cruise ships, a kind of awe mixed with horror at the thought of being trapped on such a thing for long periods of time with people you might not actually like. Once on board you realise the scale of these things is huge and with around…

This was a story about various people’s stories obtaining licences for different things in Barcelona, a boat licence, driving licence, bar licence, and an importer of specialist meat products. These kind of stories are always fun because you meet a diverse group of people and realising how people not so different from yourself can flourish…