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Screen International - Stars of Tomorrow 2023
2023-06-29 06:04:08 UTC
I had a plan which I called, The Plan. It was six years in the making
This year’s Stars of Tomorrow shoot for Screen International was going to go so well, I wouldn’t believe it. I would be suspicious all day, looking over my shoulder for a metaphorical plague of…
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Leitmotif Anyone?
2023-05-10 18:12:34 UTC
A Geometry of Peoples
I was talking to my friend Dan the other day while walking our respective hounds (you know, Dan Edelstyn of The Bank Job, Power Station and How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire{Netflix}). (here he is) We were talking about marketing. He knows a lot about such…
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A Mad Rooftop Vigil For The Power Station
2023-01-04 15:18:48 UTC
Power Station - Roof Top Vigil
Blowing up bank vans, printing money and living on a roof top in mid winter are but a few of the devices which artists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell have used to pay off a million pounds of pay day debt and and go…
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King Charles and the sculptor
2022-10-28 13:41:17 UTC
The first coins to feature King Charles III went in to production yesterday featuring the work of sculptor Martin Jennings. Martin was kind enough to let me in to his Oxfordshire studio back in 2014 while he was working on the Mary Seacole statue which now stands outside St Thomas’s…
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Marc Vlessing OBE
2022-07-04 17:55:38 UTC
The Planner - Marc Vlessing OBE. May cover 2022
I had a fascinating cover shoot in Covent Garden recently for The Planner magazine. It was fascinating because the subject, Marc Vlessing, co-founder of Pocket Living was a bit of a Renaissance man with a background in banking, film producing, theatre…
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Screen International Stars of Tomorrow 2022
2022-06-29 09:53:24 UTC
Stars of Today Tomorrow Today
Monday didn’t start well. Taxis had ceased to exist, there was a lovely tube strike. It was raining. My assistant Francesco and I enjoyed missed trains, wet sweaty sprints and kilometre long queues for black cabs and I was pleasantly surprised by a migraine on…
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The 15th International Color Awards honors Peter Searle from the UK
2022-03-30 11:20:00 UTC
If I may blow my own trumpet again..I seem to have been honoured for the second year running with a huge heavy bronze digital medal (at least 100kb). I am happy to report that no one was slapped. Also this month the same still life series is a finalist in…
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Finalist in The Association of Photographers Award 2022
2022-03-25 12:09:00 UTC
Nice to be a finalist in this year’s award and for the second year running. Surprisingly (again) it is for the Still Life series category. The Award winners will be announced on the 20th April so look out for inactivity on this blog when I don’t even win a banana…
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Screen International - Stars of Tomorrow 2021
2021-10-07 11:03:00 UTC
I had to be physically restrained, held back by huge mixed marshal arts colossi. I sooo wanted to press that share button after the shoot a few months back but alas it was forbidden. Fortunately the chaps have been called off now and returned to their cages
Like previous years…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
2021-05-07 10:54:00 UTC
The Mindful Sky
When was the last time you just stopped and looked up? I mean really looked up; stopped deconstructing that report, scanning train times, hailing a taxi or managing an unruly cheese and pickle. Forget the deadline and just gaze up at the peaceful progression of clouds.
The…