Over 3000 miles travelled and thousands of images supplied to clients all around the UK, the past few months have been really busy for me. Here are a few of my favourite images I’ve taken and had published recently.
A client for over 20 years, Aston University wanted some new images to update their student welfare website.
Aston University student welfare
Front cover and inside feature for the BMA’s Doctor magazine.
BMA The doctor magazine
Day in St.Helens shooting for DTM Tyre management.
DTM Tyre management staff portrait
DTM Tyre management retreading of a lorry tyre
One of the many images I take for Bellway Homes all over the UK to market their new housing developments. I shoot around 20 locations a year for them.
Rutland Water for Bellway Homes
Roundtable discussion in Birmingham, for Business Insider magazine.
Round table meeting in Birmingham for Business Insider magazine
Portrait of Derbion shopping centre management team
Derbion shopping centre management portrait
Coming up in the next few weeks , I’m shooting several school and college prospectuses, a VIP visit and refuse lorries around the Bedford area.
Twenty years ago this month, after ten years as a press photographer and around the same time America invaded Iraq, great timing, I left the Birmingham Post to set up my own business. Below are a few pictures from my first few weeks of working for myself and a further two from recent assignments.
2003
(L-R) Building of the Bullring for City life magazine and Sybil Spence addresses a conference at Birmingham City Council House
Michel Barnier pictured during his visit to the West Midlands, 2003
2023
Dr Huma Latif for the British Medical Association
Training the next generation of lifeguards for the RLSS, Birmingham
Since 2003;
-I’ve sent 324 197 pictures to clients all around the world, which roughly means I’ve shot over 2M pictures. -Used 7 cameras (2 dropped beyond repair and survived the Canon 1ds mk3 focussing fiasco) -Used 7 desktop computers (Early Apple ones were overpriced and slow) -Used 9 laptop computers (Less said about the Apple G4, the better. They could hardly handle processing one RAW file) -Worked in Downing Street -Photographed Prince William and Prince Harry during a private visit (Language turned the air blue) -Supplied photographs for two books on food -Now using my 4th lighting system, I started with Canon Speedlites (kept overheating and melting them,) Quantum Q-flash (fantastic system, could shoot HSS, which they didn’t advertise, but no product development for years,) Elinchrom (ELB400 and 500’s were great but a pain to carry and set up.) I recently switched, just before the massive price rises last year to Profoto. They are easy and fast to set up, not too heavy and most importantly, suits my style of shooting, HSS up to 1/8000 using electronic shutter.) -Documented the building of the new QE hospital in Birmingham for the NHS -Still working for some clients I first shot pictures for in 2003 -Photographed the opening of the Bullring and Selfridges in Birmingham, for Selfridges and the Bullring. -Shot fashion in Sweden -Took pictures of Alan Sugar, according to his PR, “On a good day.” Wouldn’t like to have shot him on a bad day… -Bought far too many photography books
A big thank you everyone who has supported me since 2003.
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A slight return to normality compared to last year, this year has provided me with some very interesting assignments. I’ve spent part of it lying on the floor in a studio photographing globes, photographing Royalty and VIP’s, shooting refuse trucks in Scotland and shooting school, University and College prospectuses. Good to see conferences have returned and I’m getting bookings from the NHS and healthcare providers again after a long break due to the pandemic. I’ve also continued to shoot thousands of staff and corporate portraits, luckily, the lockdown haircuts are now a distant memory.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in the New Year.
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I recently photographed the BAMA annual conference in Cheshire. After a break last year due to Covid this is the 4th time I’ve covered the event.
I shoot all conferences using an electronic camera shutter (LED lighting permitting.) This means there wasn’t any disturbance for the delegates from a noisy camera shutter, something I’ve been very aware of in the past.
At the end of the first day I also updated some staff headshots for the BAMA.
BAMA conference Cheshire
BAMA conference Cheshire
Fawlty towers tribute act
BAMA conference Cheshire
BAMA conference Cheshire
BAMA conference Cheshire
BAMA conference Cheshire
Good to be back shooting conferences after over a year off due to Covid.
This year is my 25th year as a professional photographer. My career started with these two images, published in the Congleton Guardian.
Congleton Guardian cutting
I was driving home after completing a college project in Macclesfield and saw some smoke rising over Congleton. It turned out that a factory had been set alight in an arson attack.
Shortly after these images were published I started supplying the Guardian group newspapers with images on a freelance basis. Along with my photography college work, early to mid 1994 was a very busy time.
In September ’94 I was offered a staff position with the newspaper.
Two years later I joined the Gloucestershire Echo as a senior staff photographer and in 1999 I joined the Birmingham Post. At that time the Post was one of the best regional newspapers in the country to work for as a photographer. Images were used really well and we were encouraged to shoot images that were different. We were also one of the first newspapers in the country to be fully digital, probably about two years too early. The cameras were slow, they had a delay on the shutter and everything was magenta. Sending images from location was also a bit of a challenge, it was the days before 3G, so getting a usable data signal could cause problems when the deadline was 10 minutes.
In 2003 I made the choice to go freelance and in my first year I picked up several large clients that I still work for today.
My career has taken me to war zones, all around the UK, Ireland and Europe. I’ve photographed Prime Ministers, pop stars, celebrities, Royalty and had the opportunity to meet some of the most wonderful and interesting people. I’ve also worked in Wembley stadium, Downing Street, Millennium Dome (opening night 1999, probably the worse place to be that night, it had very little atmosphere!), rock festivals, concerts and some amazing factories, offices and shops all around the UK. My freelance archive currently has over 220,000 images in it, add my press photographer career and I estimate I’ve supplied around 350,000 images and negatives since 1994, around 38 images per day.
Thank you to everyone I have worked for since 1994, the picture editors and editors who encouraged my development in the 1990’s and all the clients who have encouraged me to get the best images I can.
