The Move Ons

I've just spent half an hour writing a blog post and then in one fluid movement deleted it. 

That's the only problem with modern technology, when you involve a person is invariably when it goes wrong. 

I'd like to think the blog post was one of the wittier things i've ever written, but I guess no one will ever know. 

So in lieu of me trying to remember exactly how it went and then painstakingly piece it back together here is an image from a shoot I did recently featuring one half of the extremely talented band The Move Ons. 

If you haven't heard their music I would direct you to follow this link and enjoy.

Rob

Yazmin

We shot these in the studio towards the tail end of last year. Just by changing a few lights around you can completely change the mood of a picture. It's always great working with Yazmin, she knows how to work a camera and isn't afraid of goofing around.
I will be shooting the album artwork to Lord Lav's debut album Lord of the Dead at the start of february, we have all of our zombies lined up including Yazmin and a small group of friends and family so watch this space.

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Snow day

We were all told to expect snow this weekend and I don't think anyone was actually expecting it to happen, so we woke up to a few inches of snow on friday morning and as always in Britain everything ground to a halt. There is an amazing silence that comes with freshly fallen snow, whether it's the lack of traffic on the roads or the fact that we were up at 7am i'm not quite sure.

So taking advantage of a sudden day off I called in on my friends Matt and Jon to drink tea and shoot a few pictures in the car park out the back of where they work.

El Mariachi

This is a portrait of mexican wrestling fan and film maker Rob Mcdaid, which I shot for my exhibition last year. Rob wears a mariachi uniform that was given to him as a gift by a group of his film students. 

He is currently editing his first music video which he shot over two days in London with another good friend of ours Johnny Griffith. 

With an image like this the costume obviously plays a large part, but I think what sells it is the pose. It has a gunslinger quality to it and a confidence that is hard to fake. I always love working with people who like to play around in front of the camera, as there's only so much you can do to set something up. At the end of the day it boils down to the person you are photographing and how they can project their character into the lens.

Happy new year everyone!