
Judgement, awareness, technique
In the quiet, in the shadows at the back of the hall, I do a lot of thinking about what it really takes to do this job well.
The People Photographer
The People Photographer

In the quiet, in the shadows at the back of the hall, I do a lot of thinking about what it really takes to do this job well.

If you happen to have a) a garden b) a camera with a shutter drive and c) a collection of small people with summer holiday interests that include waterfights and shooting things…

Glowing with pride, a newly-minted Queen’s Counsel bursts through a passageway in the heart of the Inner Temple, London’s maze of legal chambers and halls.

One of my very favourite clients is the Heatherley School of Fine Art. They do some fantastic events throughout the year, and January marks the exhibition of work by the staff in the Bankside Gallery.

(Part one and part two if you missed them.) And so to the last third of the year. I did get one happy bit of news in the summer – having bought the new Canon 1DX earlier in the year,…

If part one slipped past you, it’s here.

Well, that was all a bit rubbish, wasn’t it?

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…

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…

Quite a night, tonight…

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…

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…