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Behind the Scenes: building pont d’Amelie
A lovely advertising photography commission came in just after Christmas from favourite clients I A Marketing, and a group of producers including Hartshorn-Hook and Selladoor. The brief: shoot poster imagery for a major new stage adaptation of the hit film Amelie. Regular collaborator, the designer Rebecca Pitt, had produced a beautiful pre-casting ad image (above), which traded off some key motifs […]
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BIPP Photographer of the Year 2018!
The Weir I was awarded Gold in the Portrait category and the overall title Photographer of the Year at the BIPP National Awards 2018, for this panel shot for ETT production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir. The brief was to take pictures in the style of Caravaggio or one of the Dutch Masters, and with some careful […]
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Behind the Scenes video: this Sleeping Beauty is wide awake…
Behind the scenes video on our shoot for an energetic Sleeping Beauty & friends for Theatre Royal Stratford East. Clients quite often bring videographers to campaign shoots to capture the excitement, detail, process and transformation of a photoshoot, and it’s often a great way of creating compelling online content for a show long before a teaser trailer or […]
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Video: behind the scenes on the Amelie advertising photoshoot
Going behind the scenes with star Audrey Brisson on the Amelie advertising photoshoot. Back in January, I had the pleasure working with brilliant actress Audrey Brisson on an advertising photoshoot as she prepared to inhabit the quirky French title character, made famous by the film, in Selladoor and Hartshorn Hook UK national tour of Amelie. The shoot was commissioned by I […]
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What a Hassel; just going through a Phase One….
Testing out medium format portraiture on contrasting systems with some moody studio work. After years of shooting on trusty Canons, and hiring in medium format when needed, I’ve decided to take the leap this year and invest in a medium format system, so the kind folks at Phase One and Hasselblad have allowed me to borrow some of their […]
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International Womens’ Day Portraits
Celebrating IWD 2019 with some #BalanceforBetter portraits of Make Space Studios female artists, from painters and theatre designers, to jewellers, ceramicists and dancers In celebration of International Women’s Day 2019 this month, I spent the afternoon photographing all the brilliant female artists here at Make Space Studios with portraits in the IWD #Balanceforbetter pose, in front of a purple (for Suffrage, […]
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