Barcelona Photo Blog
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Michelle Nielsen, Therapist
Here is a classic interview style image, there is lots of clean space for the text to go, legibility not being a problem. I actually also like this composition and so did not feel the need to do another shot that accorded to my personal preference. Photographing women like Michelle is often easier because they…
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Desalination Plant, Barcelona
As part of a story on environmental issues I had to go to the new desalination plant near Llobregat. I was quite excited about this as I am fascinated by big machinery and modern architecture. It was pretty interesting, I loved all the bright primary colours used for different pieces of machinery, in the shot…
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Ramon Cosa, Fisherman
Ramon has his boat moored in the port near Badalona, I was photographing him as part of a story regarding the environment and pollution. He had an axe to grind about a few things, in the picture he is next to a crate full of the junk they dredge up in their nets, he has…
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John McKissok, Taekwon-do
A trip into the countryside on a train. I love travelling this way, especially longer journeys on proper trains that have good seats and tables, so much nicer than flying and the views are easier to be had as is getting up and wandering around. I was photographing John for the Resident Magazine, I had…
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American Football Portraits
This was a story about the semi pro American football league in Spain. The coach was actually British and the training ground is on Montjuic. The weather was pretty awful, rain and drizzle and I was there for about 3 hours in the end, luckily my E3 camera is weatherproof along with the lenses. The…
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Joan Margarit, Famous Spanish Poet
This was my first interview shoot for Metropolitan Magazine. He is a famous poet here who writes in both Spanish and Catalan. I was with the designer at a book reading he was giving at a book store. The problems we had were time and a shop manager who had not been informed we were…
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Falcons at El Prat Airport
I was looking through a magazine one day and I saw a picture of a guy with a falcon at Barcelona airport and thought, “What a boring photo”, but also realised it was a great story. I got in contact with ‘Doc’ my writer friend who I work with and set the wheels in motion,…
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Jose & Kristy Wedding in Barcelona
Location: Barcelona Organiser: Crystal Events This was my first wedding since being in Barcelona and my first wedding shot on digital. they were a cool couple, as soon as I entered the bedroom where the bride and her friends were getting ready I could see there would be plenty of scope for good pictures. I would not…
Greek Islands, a holiday heaven
My friend Andy decided to take the family somewhere different this year, usually Tamariu on the Costa Brava is the favourite annual holiday destination. For me, now living in Barcelona, the chance to catch up somewhere new was greatly appreciated. The first week was in Corfu and despite its touristy reputation it was great, mind…
Liceu Opera House
These pictures were taken as part of a series about supposedly haunted places in Barcelona… …Anyway, as always it was an excellent excuse to get access to places not normally that easy to see. I managed to get through the usual bureaucratic labyrinth and met a nice woman who said I could have 20 mins…
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Isabel Coixet, Film Director
Isabel Coixet is a well known film director, I was photographing her at her office in Gràcia for a magazine piece. She had just released a new movie called Elegy starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. She was being interviewed whilst I got some pictures and set up lighting, I had just got a new…
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Raval Faces; the diversity of Barcelona
This was a fun shoot, basically I ran around with the designer convincing different people to stand up against different coloured backdrops for a story on Raval in Barcelona, a barrio with myriad ethnic groups all packed tightly in to a labyrinth and doing so quite amicably. I got lots of smiling faces but as…
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Ice Hockey at Camp Nou
This was my first paid job as a photographer since coming to Spain. I had been to the magazine about some possible design work the month before and then got a call asking me if I wanted to do some pictures for them. Ice hockey is fast and I had limited equipment but in the…
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Independent Coffee Shops
First job of the New Year. I actually photographed a variety of places and the most important thing I learnt was that when dealing with more corporate establishments is don’t bother asking permission if you can get the shot in much the same way a tourist can! You will end of asking someone who just…
