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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…
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Profiles: Eric Goode
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…
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Profiles: Mary Fons, Interpreter
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…
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Profiles: Agnés, Illustrator & Graphic Artist
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…
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Profiles: Rafel Bagot, Journalist
Rafel is a journalist and television sports presenter for TV3, I got to know him through his girlfriend Maysa and I suggested he would make an interesting interviewee to the magazine. We had talked about doing some informal photos, he likes to play basketball and so we had an idea of him doing some shots…
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Valerie at Home
I have a personal project on the go which is about artists and scientists, I have an idea to do them in two distinct styles. I like the idea of photographing the artists in B&W, in a panoramic format, I want to strip out the colour and have an almost formal, posed quality, stylised even.…
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Editorial Photography: Joan Laporta
On Friday I was finally given the time and place to get some shots of Joan Laporta for a magazine. These are quite interesting times if you live in Barcelona as the local elections are kicking off in October. Ironically I have already photographed Jose Montilla for his campaign website, these guys are competing for control…
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Michelle Nielsen, Portraits
Michelle got in touch with me about doing some photos for her CV and publicity. I had photographed her last year for an interview piece so was happy that she came back to me for this work; it meant she must of liked the last shots I had taken, this counts as feedback I guess,…
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Jose Montilla, a Catalan Politician
I got a call whilst cycling home from my boxing class with Andrea and it was from Xavier a member of my photography group (Barcelona Raw), he works for a design company. They needed someone to photograph Mr Montilla the next day for his election campaign in October. The rest of the day consisted of a flurry of emails…
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Behind the Scenes: Portrait Photography with Barcelona’s Feminist Filmmaker
Documenting Creative Professionals in Unique Industries My photography assignment with Erika Lust offered a fascinating glimpse into an unconventional creative business. Lust runs a feminist pornography company that produces erotic films specifically designed to appeal to female audiences—a progressive approach in an industry traditionally dominated by male perspectives. This portrait session provided an opportunity to…
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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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Literary Portrait Photography: Capturing Spanish Poet Joan Margarit in Barcelona
Photographing a Celebrated Bilingual Catalan Poet This portrait session marked my first interview assignment for Metropolitan Magazine, featuring Joan Margarit, one of Spain’s most distinguished literary figures. Margarit has earned widespread recognition for his remarkable poetry written in both Spanish and Catalan languages, making him a cultural bridge in Barcelona’s diverse literary landscape. His work…
