Ivan The Mysterious   A couple of months ago I rejoined Soho House and fairly quickly met Ivan in the exercise classes they have. Soho House was always good for meeting new people and potentially new clients. Ivan became a Soho House friend and then a client. Result. He was keen to do shots…

Ariadne King Photo Shoot I have a client for whom I shoot interiors, his daughter Ariadne is a budding actress. He decided it was time she got some professional images for her book. We decided to start at sunrise… yippee… plus the clocks had just gone back so that was an hour less. I woke…

Home Studio Siphokazi Oranuba I got back from holiday and the day after had a home studio shoot. It has been a while and still being in holiday mode I was not looking forward to it as much as usual. Plus, these days I kind of prefer to find outdoor locations where I can fake…

Another home studio shoot. Photographing people in a home studio can be a rewarding and challenging endeavor, Hugo arrived and was nervous. This is very common, portraits shoots are as much about psychology as technique. It is good to have your technique refined so you don’t even think about it. Get to know your subject:…

Return to the Magic Fountain About a week after doing a corporate portrait shoot outside I got another inquiry. Murat Uslu wanted a mix of shots but doing indoors and outdoors in an hour is not so feasible. Apart from setting up the studio you are going to need at least half an hour jus…

Corporate Portraits? I feel the need to experiment. A large amount of my work of late is corporate portraits and the vast majority of these are headshots against white backgrounds. Now studio style photography is fine and would be awesome if I had a proper full size studio. But given the choice I still prefer…

Yes, finally a corporate headshot session in the great outdoors! Barcelona is quite hot (bearable) and sticky (less so), so… not having to set up a home studio was a nice change. Giuseppe wanted this and i was more than happy to oblige. I remembered near me there is a small park behind the library.…

Almost all my work involves me going places and photographing people in their homes or somewhere convenient for them. I have on occasion used my home as a make-shift studio, the walls are of a light enough colour and I can get just about enough distance that shooting portraits wide-open it is possible  blur away…

Paolo is one of those people you just get on with. I went there with an idea to experiment with a lighting effect that would give me an almost painterly effect; quasi Renaissance perhaps. As a result I fluffed around a little experimenting with different things, but Paolo was very patient and amenable. I photographed…

Joan works for a wine company as a taster. To get to his house I took the Bicing to what is the last stop in that direction, essentially Sarría, it is all up hill and with a heavy camera bag quite a challenge. Once you are in the rarified world of this barrio you soon…

Poor Eric. I arrived with a mind to try out something new. When doing these interview pieces you are doing it because it is great to meet people and usually affords you a chance to try out something different with the lighting, you certainly are not doing it to become rich. The problem for Eric…

Mary is an interpreter, it is one of those jobs I find difficult to imagine being able to do,  to listen to someone talking constantly in one language and speak it pretty much at the same moment using another. The Babel fish in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy would be my best bet, having…

Here is an image I did for a personal project about artists and scientists. I imagined this would be a pretty straight forward project to do, as I had a clear idea of what I wanted and the style to shoot it. This is not, however panning out quite as I imagined. One issue was…