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Category Archives: London Editorial Photography

Cracking recipe – not just for Christmas

Here is a superb dish created by Rachel Green I shot for egg producer L J Fairburn which was used as a Christmas recipe card. As ever, once we had the shot we ate it and it is utterly delicious. This one’s not just for Christmas.    

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The Smiths in 1984

I recently scanned five rolls of  film I shot of The Smiths playing Sheffield City Hall in March 1984 whilst I was at college studying Photojournalism. I had heard “Hand in Glove” and just a couple of others when I knocked on the stage door and asked their manager if I could take some pictures. I was led past the band […]

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Richard Attenborough

I had the pleasure of photographing the recently departed Richard Attenborough a few times. He was delightful. The last time we met we walked down a church path chatting with his arm around my shoulder. He surely couldn’t have remembered me and yet he treated me like an old pal. A charismatic and forcefully charming […]

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Sir Peter Blake

I recently visited the Royal Academy of Arts and bumped into pop artist Sir Peter Blake so took a few shots of him with some recent works including his Beano lithograph celebrating famous cartoon characters leaving the Dundee school that inspired the Bash Street Kids. Weirdly it was almost exactly 20 years since I last […]

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Baguette of the north

This caused quite a stir. It’s a commission I did for my pal Adrian at Imagewise on behalf of the supermarket Morrisons that involved the projection of a giant baguette onto the Angel of the North, the 177 ft wide sculpture of and by Antony Gormley. I don’t intend to get drawn on whether or […]

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