The call came in, “can you go and stand in a field with a flying car, but – can I check you aren’t afraid of the child catcher?” After deciphering the message from Channel 4 I grabbed my wet weather gear and headed to the middle of a muddy field where I met David Walliams on the last filming day of Chitty Flies Again,…
I posted a couple of shots of this rig in my Instagram stories the other week and was inundated with questions. I thought I would put a couple of posts together explaining the tech behind the setup. If you are one of my wonderful clients reading this, wondering what this means for you? Well, simply, it means a safe and socially distanced review of…
When I was first asked to be involved with the Mayflower autonomous ship, it was quite cryptic! A ship with no crew, fully autonomous, powered by solar and driven by an AI captain, are you interested? I was hooked! IBM commissioned me to travel down to Plymouth a couple of times to photograph the crew involved in the project and to capture portraits at…
Lord, Sir, Baron, Mark, Mr Sedwill, what do you call a man who has so many titles? It turns out he simply prefers Mark! I was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to photograph Mark Sedwill, the outgoing Cabinet Secretary at the Cabinet Office. Mark has just left his role as the most senior civil servant in the country and talked me through some…
I first watched Ellen MacArthur traverse the globe, I was 20 when she broke the world record and I think most people my age remember her crossing the line (video included at the bottom of the blog in case you’ve not seen it!) I had travelled down to the Isle Of Wight to photograph Dame Ellen MacArthur for the Sunday Times Magazine. After a…
Nelayan are traditional Indonesian Fishermen, fishing from small boats for Lemuru or Petek, small sardine-like fish. In the mid-1990s, plastic started washing up on the beaches and replacing fish in the nets. This is a blog about my latest personal project, a tough one to shoot – beautiful places blighted by plastic and waste with locals who feel helpless. To see the full gallery…
I was commissioned by the Sunday Times magazine to photograph Dame Hilary Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall. Shot on location at Exeter Cathedral Hilary was an absolutely fantastic subject, we talked about how this press campaign for the third and final book of the trilogy is very different from the first book release in 2009. Hilary told me how there were hundreds of…
Before lockdown I had the pleasure of shooting the NHS staff at St Georges hospital for the latest series of 24 Hours in A&E for Channel 4. This is the third series I have shot for the channel and every time it’s a privilege to meet new members of the team as well as catching up with the staff I had met before. One of…
I was, as I’m sure a lot of you are, utterly sick of endless chargers and cables. A mess of wires that always seem to get tangled and it always ends up looking like Medusa on a bad hair day, so I decided to create my own custom charger board. I’ve tried various things over the years, I’ve tried to hide them in drawers,…
In September myself and my assistant Morgan flew to the USA to take portraits at Wasteland Weekend festival, a fully immersive post apocalyptic festival in the Mojave Desert. The full project gallery is here with the finished portraits. The images below are extra shots from the festival I took while walking round, separate from the portraits you can see more of the vehicles and…
Escorted on to Tower Green by an armed guard I was there to photograph the highest-ranking members of the Yeoman Warders, better known as the Beefeaters for Channel 5. Shooting quickly, my assistant and I shot eight different setups in an hour, running from one to the next to meet the next Yeoman Warder. Known more commonly as the beefeaters their full title is…
I took a short flight over to Milan to shoot the legendary Metallica for a Kerrang! magazine cover. We landed, and the heavens opened, drenching everything. I had a small dual studio set up backstage at the 85,000 capacity sold-out venue. After I’d set up, I took a break and grabbed some food. I’d been told by an old friend of mine to ask…
I popped down to the south coast to photograph the father and son combination of Nick and Harris Reed for The Sunday Times Magazine. Nick is an Oscar-winning documentary producer, one of the British Hollywood elite, and Harris is a fashion designer whose designs have been worn by Harry Styles, Naomi Campbell and Cara Delevigne. We ran about for an hour and threw about…
“Hey man, I have to stop this shoot.” The words no photographer ever wants to hear – unless, it’s Duff Mckagan who follows it up with this “you look like a guy who enjoys a joke…” Duff then proceeded to reel off a string of excellent gags, I fired back some of my own, and we riffed with the jokes for a good forty…
I had the pleasure of shooting Japanese band Babymetal for the cover of Kerrang. It was great meeting their crew and working through ideas for the shoot with the world exclusive of their new reduced lineup and new outfits. Moa-metal and Su-metal were incredibly polite and fun to work with, I think they were impressed with my incredibly basic Japanese. We chatted about how…
I’ll get to the Secret Teacher post but first… Welcome to the new blog, I felt that there were so many shots and behind the scenes bits that I was shooting and didn’t have an outlet for so, I created this new blog. I shoot a lot, be it personal and commissions so I will hopefully be writing about the most exciting jobs here…
