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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A Flying Visit To and Then Around Casa Bonay, Barcelona
One of the first really interesting job of the year was a shoot at Casa Bonay, a boutique hotel recently opened by Inés Miró-Sans in the centre of Barcelona. Receiving an email that is a possible job is always a little like Christmas, when it comes from another country even more so, because apart from the appeal of…
UBIS, Geneva
I was contacted by Elena Panizza, head of Brain Bazaar about this job. I was very pleased to be asked, after all, it combined travel and decent renumeration, though, in truth, living in Barcelona means I am no longer sure what that is, as very few here want to spend money on work that might be professional when they…
Olga & Carlos
These 2 were my old flat mates for about a year, they moved out when Olga became pregnant. She asked me about doing some photos and I got this idea in my head that was something between a portrait and a still life, I wanted to include a lot of objects that were symbolic and…
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My Experiences with Home Studio Photography
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…
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Paolo Guidoni, Opera Singer
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…
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Profile Photography: Joan Calvet Merce, Wine Tester
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…
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Women at Pregnancy Services
These are images for an article about people who offer services to pregnant women in Barcelona, aside from the usual midwifery this includes such things as massages etc. I did pictures of several of them together at the offices where they worked. There was a nice amount of white space and natural light to play…
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Profiles: Mertxe Hernández, Fashion Designer
Barcelona, very much a tourist magnet and set up to entice them, she told me when she first set up shop there, over 10 years ago, it was very different, her street was a narrow little alley in a humble barrio, then they widened it and gentrified the place, she is not complaining, even if…
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Profiles: Venus O’Hara, Writer
Venus O’Hara has an interesting career, it might be best if you go to her website to find out more, I could try to explain but, well, maybe not… We both agreed that this shoot would be tame because it was for the magazine and also she wanted to do something more a kin to…
