I came across a decomposed childhood toy whilst clearing out my Mother’s attic. It was shot using an Ebony 5”x4” camera with available light and printed using dye transfer.
One of my favourite creatives I worked with was Walter Campbell. From Belfast, Walter has irreverent wit and charm and a willingness to do ground breaking creative work. He lifted my game.
Isabella Blow brought Lara to my studio.
Photographed in a make shift tent at the race track for a an electric car race in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Di Grassi featured in a documentary about Formula E racing “And We Go Green.”
Photographed at Brooklyn E-Prix in 2018.
This was commissioned by a Parisian advertising agency. Some years later a meat manufacturer bought a large print of this image to hang high above in the canteen of a meatpacking plant in Minnesota.
I went to Milwaukee to shoot a scene insert for a Nike commercial being directed by Edgar Wright. The morning after I wandered about and found this tree.
Tom Carty and Walter Campbell brought the affable and kind Barry Kamen into my studio for a portrait.
David Unger asked me if I would photograph Mickey’s headshot. Mickey was in purdah at the time. After finishing the headshots, I snapped him sitting with his dog. Mickey was a gentleman.
Leon Greenman (1910–2008) was a British anti-fascism campaigner and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
This portrait was taken as part of an unfinished series of interviews with fashion designers and Isabella Blow for Bath Museum.
I was commissioned to photograph the artist Glen Baxter for a long forgotten Dutch design magazine. I asked Glen if he would draw a mural on the studio wall. He grumbled and declined, then I suggested he dress up as one of the characters from his drawings. He responded positively.
I was commissioned to make s short film for Nowness featuring Royal Ballet principal Sarah Lamb performing Wayne McGregor’s choreography from Woolf Works. I used an Alexa Mono camera and a helium balloon light that gave the dancer freedom to move.
I was lucky enough to get access to one of the few Geisha schools left in Tokyo where I photographed a student being prepared. what I did learn was the meaning of the Geisha is far more subtle and complex than I ever imagined.
While waiting for magic hour during a commercial, these clouds over Wadi Rum formed. Photographed using a Linhof Technorama 6x17 camera.
I went to Easter island to film a commercial for the Millennium Dome. The idea was to shoot shadows moving across the faces of the Moai statues with time lapse cameras. After setting the cameras and waiting for the shadows to pass, I photographed the Moai with a Linhof 6x17cm rangefinder camera.
