Making a splash

When I ordered my Canon 1DX Mk2s a few months ago, I hadn’t spotted that I was also entering a competition run by Wex Photographic. First I knew was that I’d won it, and I’d landed a day’s workshop with…

Pricing prints

This is really part of a much bigger theme of “how we undervalue our work”, I suppose, but I’m sometimes asked a simple question: “can I buy a print of that?”. (It’s about many other things too – it’s about…

Comedysex 2016

It’s only mid-January, and surely one of the year’s most memorable events is already done and dusted. I was honoured to get an invitation from Zoe Margolis to come and make pictures as 11 incredibly talented acts gave their time…

Silicon Beach Exposed

A beautiful site, Exposure. And what the legendary event showman – and many other things – Matt Desmier (pictured below) did with it really blew me away. I don’t think I’ve seen a better use of a set of event…

The overpayment scam

I’d never thought of myself as gullible. Quite the reverse, to be honest. Master of the Snopes. Debunker of the flimsy tale. And all that. Not quite so much now, though.

Looking back at 2015

As I did a year ago, I’ve picked out a few favourites from the year just gone – as much to remind myself of all that flew past as for anything else. Some I’ve published before in one place or…

Pricing photography

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about costs and pricing for photography. Unsurprisingly, really – I send out a bunch of quotes every day for photography work, big and small. Making the right call is vital to putting food on…

Hidden in plain sight

A few notes about finding a fascinating photo subject, right in front my nose, entirely by chance. The story begins with some old honey. Been lying around for a while, in need of heating and filtering to put in jars.

Something Special

1980. Sharp suits. Wraparound shades. Pork pie hats. The days when we had proper fashion tribes, and a row of button badges down the (narrow) lapel – or on the inside of it in the case of a school blazer…