With a new parliament sitting, and big changes in its membership, it was clear that a new set of MP portraits was going to be needed.

[You can find part one here if you missed it] Another year, another puntcon, another Thompson.

My tenth year of photography, and as varied and enjoyable as ever.

Two stories caught my attention yesterday – both involving knotty issues that pop up when people take photos of people.

When I’m on an event photography job, I’m always watching what’s around me, especially in the gaps in the action after I’ve completed the coverage of a particular session.

You’ve hired a photographer. You like the results. You have all sorts of ideas about how you want to use the pictures – new things you’ve just thought of. New products you can use them on, new places you can…

Yesterday was our street fair, a delightful bit of Surrey tradition that brings together coconut shies, pony rides, Punch & Judy, terrifying tat stalls and of course the East Surrey Morris. Dancing, as they tell us proudly, in the Cotswold…

It has to be one of the most ambitious, and successful, mass portrait photography projects of all time. You see them everywhere – the portraits of MPs and Lords, produced by a Parliament team led by Carrie Kleiner, and shot…

“What’s that, there, in your hand?” -Nothing, I say quickly, transferring it to a trouser pocket.

Ask any professional event photographer, and they’ll be able to tell you about the times they’ve heard this: “Please can you shoot our event for free? It’s for a good cause.” For bonus points they add: “it’ll be really good…

[You can find part one here if you missed it] Sometimes you just get lucky.