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• PR pictures used in The Birmingham Post
• New Tesco West Bromwich
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After last weeks shoot, my images taken for the launch of The Torque Project were used in this weeks Birmingham Post, front page and full inside page.

Building is now well under way at the new Tesco development in West Bromwich town centre, part of the £200M city centre regeneration project.

Today a few cars caused a lot of excitement around the streets of the Jewellery Quarter and in Birmingham city centre.
The Torque Project launched their new dealership, selling exclusive cars in Birmingham, lined up were Ferrari Lamborghini and Porsche cars worth over £2M.

Macclesfield Town FC legend Phil Power celebrates scoring against Northwich in the 1996 FA trophy cup final at the old Wembley stadium.
Macclesfield went on to win the match 3-1.
I was lucky enough to be part of the Sammy Mcilroy years, when he took the club into the football league for the first time in their history. The club have just been relegated from the football league.

I used to photograph Macclesfield most weeks when I worked for the Macclesfield Messenger newspaper, in those days you had to get the picture in the first 20 minutes, as I usually had another match to photograph, 10 miles away which started at the same time.

 

Spent an enjoyable morning around the hills of Worcestershire photographing the annual Beacon RCC little mountain time trial.
Conditions were nothing short of appalling, even so, there were some excellent times.

Silver gelatine print
Fuji GW690 KodakTRI-X iso800

Best viewed in 720phd

A few of the images I supplied to the RDA, Advantage West Midlands, which closed recently.
Really good to work for the same client over a number of years, I was involved in developing a corporate photography style and shot much of their PR, website and annual report images.
Good luck to everyone I worked with in finding new jobs.

48 sheet photography Fazeley Street Birmingham

I have been commissioned by JCDecax to document the 48 sheet art project around Birmingham and the Midlands.
The aim of the project is to bring art to the urban environment using 100 billboards to exhibit the work of
local artists.
Exhibition runs until the 29th April, for more info about the project http://www.48sheet.com

England cricketer Steve Harmison.

Picture taken in 2003, on a freezing cold day in the North East. I was a bit worried asking him to pose like that, but if you don’t ask…
3 months later he toured the West Indies with England and took 23 wickets in 4 tests, on his way to becoming the world number 1 bowler.

Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath pictured in 2007.

Pictures taken during his visit to Broad Street, Birmingham where he unveiled his star on the Broad Street Walk of stars.
One of the more surreal jobs I’ve done for Birmingham City Council in recent years.

Thank you to all who have visited my website in the past 2 years, total hits have just past 1 million.

RAF Hack Green nuclear bunker, near Nantwich in Cheshire.
Images taken in August 1994, when I was a freelance press photographer covering Manchester, Leeds and the North West.

RAF Hack Green nuclear bunker

Air filters and food preparation area.

Control room.

One of 17 Regional Government Headquarters around the UK, in the event of a nuclear war the bunker would have protected the area between Liverpool and Birmingham.
Fully functional, the base was the 7th most powerful nuclear power in the world.

I took the pictures shortly after the MOD abandoned the building, when it was put up for sale.
Today it is open to the public as a museum.

 

One of my favourite photographers, film is out later this year, directed by Jacqui Morris who began her career as assistant to Don McCullin.

Shot over the past 6 months, I’ve now completed my latest body of personal work, Electricity substations.
Continuing from my last book on Midlands Industrial estates I’m interested in the everyday objects that all effect our lives, but are often missed or ignored. Without these objects our lives would be very different.

Recently spent 1 day in London and 2 mornings shooting inside HMP Swinfen, Lichfield for Good Vibrations, a charity that helps prisoners and patients in secure units develop life and work skills by participating in Gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion.) Brief was to capture the vibrancy and energy of the participants.

Nice comment from the client “Hi Jo The photos are fantastic! Thanks so much. And please can you pass on my huge thanks to Ed?”

I was commissioned before Christmas to take portraits of Marilyn Perks with her partner Brian by Yours magazine.
Story was about how they met through caring for their partners, who both had developed Alzhemeirs.
Just one example of the editorial photography I have supplied recently for trade and consumer magazines.