I’m very pleased to have been signed on to shoot the directorial debut from Nick Willis for BBC Arts New Creatives. Nick is a kent based artist and director whose short screenplay has been commissioned by BBC Arts and Screen South with funding by Arts Council England. The film has been in the works for […]
I was really pleased to hear that a short I worked on last year during the gap in pandemic lockdowns found some love from judges at two indie festivals. The IndieFEST (Award of Excellence, Special Mention) and Indie Shorts Cannes (Best Male Director and Best Actress) awarded Laurels for Strawberry Fields Forever. I’m very proud […]
Here is a music video behind the scenes film and lighting breakdown for Cheriton's 'So In Love'. Shot by Alex Fountain and cut by Stef Kopchaliiska, it gives a glimpse at what we got up to making the video and a little insight from Director, Tom Andrews and Cheriton himself. I have put together a [...]
Over the Summer I had the privilege to be asked to work as DOP on a short film, Strawberry Fields Forever. Based on real events, Strawberry Fields Forever stars Golden Globe Winner, Brenda Blethyn and newcomer, Tom Hatton. The film is an adaptation of the tormented short life of Stephen Shepherd, whose body was discovered [...]
From promonews.tv... Tom Andrews directs a poignant tale of love and hate for Cheriton's So In Love. Relationships can often feel like a flowing tussle of emotion with many peaks and many troughs, and Andrews visualises this through stripped-back vignettes and a powerful performance. The progression of Adam Prosser's cinematography mirrors these themes, opening with spotlight-style [...]
Really fun shoot alert! I recently had the lovely comission to photograph staff portraits for Rockbox Advertising on 35mm film. I was approached by the wonderful Studio Hoi that were in the process developing a re-brand and website for Rockbox. The creative has a really thoughtful approach which was both fresh and contemporary but with [...]
Last week, Kate Nash came to Portsmouth's Wedgewood Rooms on the last date of her UK tour. I'd recently taken delivery of a Nikon F100 and fancied it's autofocus for capturing live music on 35mm film, Kodak Portra 400 in this case rated at asa 1600. Before I went full time with photography I would [...]
Last month I had a three-day photo commission in the South West across Devon and Cornwall. I got to spend some time outside of my shoot days seeing beaches, rocks, harbours and Cornish folk going about their day. The weather just happened to be fabulous for February and I was able to walk around in [...]
Before Christmas, I was commissioned to photograph Boxer, Adam Buckner in an editorial for WW Magazine. Adam has been using Weightwatchers plans alongside a training regimen at a boxing gym to aid him in fitness and weight loss. We shot at Adam's boxing gym during the evening and had to work around ongoing training sessions. [...]
Before Christmas, I was commissioned to shoot an editorial portrait of Ultra Cyclist, Dominic Irvine for Waitrose Weekend. By day, Dominic helps blue-chip businesses optimise their performance levels. By applying his training principles to cycling Dominic has cultivated a level of fitness, training regimen and sheer will that has seen him break the tandem record [...]
Over the summer I made some documentary images in the recording studio with The Dodge Brothers, purveyors of incendiary skiffle and silent movie accompaniment. I have photographed the Dodge Brothers both live and for press many times over the last 10 years. In June, they kindly invited me to visit the studio where they were [...]
This summer we had a trip planned to visit family in the Middle East. It was the hottest and dustiest time of year to travel and I didn't really want to take a fancy camera with me. I also didn't want to spend our time there seeing the place through an LCD screen so I [...]
In this post I'm going to talk about shooting the music video for the title track on Dutch Criminal Records EP, Waiting on the Weekend. I'd been working with the guys from Dutch Criminal Record for a while shooting stills for press and EP artwork (that's for another post) when they came to me looking to [...]
Earlier this year I was approached by Quay West Studios in Gosport, Hampshire with the proposal of shooting a music video with singer, songwriter, Tom Millichamp. I had worked with the Quay West and Tom previously, creating a set of images for press and his online content. That shoot was about a year prior and his [...]
Last month (February 26th), I went along to the Kodak Camera Club London Photowalk. The free event was announced via twitter and instagram - just turn up and shoot film with some fellow film photographers led by Kodak's head of video content, Stiv Twigg. We all congregated at the Cafe Nero on Lancaster Pl, North of Waterloo [...]
Waitrose Weekend, the free in-store paper commissioned me a few weeks ago to photograph an editorial portrait for their 'My Weekend' feature. The editorial interviews people from all over the UK about their work life and what they do at the weekend. I was sent to photograph Oli Greber, an instructor at the Land Rover BAR [...]
Last year I was commissioned by Audible to photograph Mark Kermode for a new Audible Original series, Kermode On Film. Having photographed Mark in the past we already had a working relationship so it was an exciting opportunity to work together again and was sure to be a fun shoot given Mark's excellent sense of humour [...]
Last month we took a trip, the first in three years or so! Since staying in Marrakech and driving across Morocco in 2014, we knew that exploring cities and experiencing the history, people and the personality of a place were important factors for a long overdue getaway. Struggling to decide on where to head we [...]
Over the last two years I have been working commercial interior photography for Thomas Sanderson, Europe's largest manufacturer of conservatory blinds, window blinds and shutters as well as commercial installations. Handcrafted in the UK, Thomas Sanderson window coverings have a heritage in Britain going back 25 years, starting life as a family run business having evolved [...]
I recently invested in a beautiful Nikon F3/T from Japan Camera Hunter. I love manual 35mm cameras and have enjoyed a few of them, most recently my Nikon FM and before that the Nikkormat FTN. I really want to be shooting more 35mm and so what better than the legendary F3 in titanium. For those [...]
Earlier in the year I posted about how I had shot the cover photograph for Mark Kermode's forthcoming book, 'Hatchet Job'. Well the jacket design was recently completed by the talented designers at the books publisher Picador, the Pan Macmillan imprint. Here is the finished cover along with some supporting images from the jacket. If [...]