Maggie Alphonsi MBE – shot putter: Recently I have been commissioned to shoot a series of portraits of top female athletes for the Women’s Sports Trust, of which Maggie Alphonsi is a patron. The aim of the shoots is to show strong and positive images or sports women, and there could be no better person […]
Last week were The Prince’s Trust’s Celebrate Success awards at the Odeon Leicester Square, London. These awards recognise 22 young people throughout the UK who have turned their lives around with help from the Trust. It’s my job to take a series of images that reflect their lives, from hardship to success. I also need to […]
Back in 1986 my dad worked in Brazil for a couple of weeks. On a day off he did some sightseeing and while taking some pictures from a viewpoint over Rio he and about ten colleagues were mugged at gunpoint. He lost his camera and all the pictures he’d taken that day. He didn’t want […]
Just before Christmas as a little treat for my upcoming birthday I bought myself a Fuji X100T camera. One of the incentives for buying it was that over the new year we were going to Marrakech for some warmth, good lunches, mint tea and haggling in the souk. This little Fuji turned out to be a […]
This is what I reckon are my best shots of 2014. During the 12 months I travelled from Dartmoor in Devon to Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and this is what all the 1,000s of shutter clicks, flashes of light, miles on the motorways, 100s of cups of coffee, early alarm calls and hours in front of a Mac screen […]
This is Camilla Dowse, awarded the prestigious artist of the year 2014 for Artists & Illustrators magazine. And for her troubles she got a visit from me and my assistant Holly back in October. I photographed Camilla with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera. See Camilla’s work here camilladowse.co.uk
After a great summer in the UK autumn has arrived in the shape of damp weather. Still, must not let that get in the way of a shoot, particularly after cancelling it once when it really was lashing down. Since being signed up to Offset photo library earlier in 2014 I’ve been slowly adding to my […]
I don’t like the colour green and maybe that’s why I’ve never been a keen landscape photographer. Sure I fire off a few when I’m on holiday but the thought of getting up early to get the best light on a green field puts me off. Whichever the reason, landscapes don’t rock my world until… […]
The path to stardom could involve a wet day in Bristol sheltering under a red umbrella and hanging out beside a 1960s concrete flyover while having your photo taken. That was the case for Sophie Stott recently. Sophie needed some promotional images to help her fledgling singing career. She liked the images on the lifestyle section of […]