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The Office
The Office This might well be the last proper job of the summer. Lugging my equipment out to the taxi I felt the heatwave had arrived. Everything was going to feel like a slog from now on. I was glad to know I would be in Greece within the week. The office was on Aribau.…
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Corporate Events 2: The Pre-Event Party
The Pre-Event Party The Job with JPI was a fairly standard conference gig. However they wanted me there the night before to capture the attendees arriving. An informal party where they could meet for the first time, in a long time, or perhaps just for the first time… I have done quite a few shoots…
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The Quirky World Corporate Events
Corporate Events: the Quirky World of In-Person Meetings Corporate events can mean many things, but if it lasts for 4 days there is a good chance most options will be covered. Well, actually I did not have to do 80 odd portraits with full lighting and backdrop this time… So, I was contacted by a…
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OOH Capital
Bloody hell a paid job, thanks OOH Capital. Post-Covid is still proving to be difficult. Work is not back to its normal level. This job with OOH Capital is pretty typical of what was common pre-pandemic. A set of headshots and a group shot or 2. We were working at the Almanac hotel just…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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……
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The Europa Cup Tournament; Kids in Camp Nou
One of the more hectic events I have had to cover. Even with an assistant/second shooter this was a day of nonstop action on a day when the temperature was probably closer to 40ºC. There were maybe 50 teams of kids from about 7 years up to 15, participating in The Europa Cup tournament. The pitch at…
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Back to School, Another Day at BHA
I got invited back to Barcelona Hair Academy, which is I guess is confirmation I must have done an ok job the first time. This one was a workshop for women, maybe a little quieter than the first time. I more or less knew how to set up the artificial lighting and got on with it. I did however…
Harvard Business School, Casablanca
Back in January I flew to Casablanca to take photos for Harvard Business School. Basically they had several groups of students there who were working on business proposals and as part of the assignment they had to essentially interview people around the city for market research. So an interesting challenge, with added language and cultural hurdles…
Barcelona Hair Academy
I have been getting my hair cut for a couple of years now by Emma, she has now set up with Cecilia a new venture, the Barcelona Hair Academy. Cecilia asked me to do some publicity shots at the new location, a very cool space in Gracia, an old industrial building now housing various start ups and the like.…
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Anabelle Veritas, a Play
I photographed Julian Wickham for an interview piece and as is often the case it led to the chance to do some more work. He runs a theatre group (The English Drama School) that teaches the craft to both native and non-native English speakers and they actually perform the plays for the public to go see in…
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Agata Restaurant, Barcelona
These pictures were for a restaurant that was creating a new website. I got a call from a girl I know called Freddie, who is a designer and also runs a Meetup group for such people, I sometimes go along as it is a very relaxed social night out, rather than the typical networking events, which always feel…
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Barcelona TV Interview
I got interviewed by a local TV company. It might seem churlish or fake modesty but I really did not wish for it to happen. A good friend who knows someone there thought it would be a good idea, she is not the vindictive type so I am sure she did it as a favour.…
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Aisling & Colm Wedding
This was my first job since returning to Barcelona after being in Buenos Aires for a month. I had been back in the country less than 2 days and was still feeling jet-lagged, luckily this meant that a certain other wedding in the UK on the Friday pretty much escaped me even though it was…
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Barcelona Classic Car Show
I was invited to go along to the Barcelona Classic Car Exhibition on Sunday and being at a loose end thought it might be fun and yield some interesting pictures. I decided to also take along my fisheye lens because I have a theory that old things, be they buildings, or even, I was soon…
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Emily & Regis Wedding Party
Location: The Forum, Barcelona, Spain. The pre wedding party for Emily & Regis was in a huge marque situated in the Forum. When I arrived I saw 2 ‘tents’ one big and next to it one that was huge, I thought to myself it must be the smaller one, I soon realised it was both, the…
Industrial Photography at the Forum with Barcelona Raw
This was the 4th excursion for the group Barcelona Raw, which I set up the beginning of 2009. We decided to return to something more industrial and brutal after our trip to Montjuic where we messed around doing portrait shots. We arrived just as the rain was easing off but it would keep returning sporadically throughout the afternoon.…
