India portraits

Three weeks ago I was in India shooting for a global healthcare company. It's a positive story that looks at the benefits of healthcare provision for all in rural India. Bihar state is the poorest and most remote part of India and the serious portraits shown below, shot as we travelled through villages over bone crunching roads, are in contrast to the final uplifting images to be used soon by the client. I will feature the spreads here on the blog in a few weeks when they go live.

some more studio portraits

Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 nomination

Got some good news last week, I have been nominated in one of the categories in the Travel Photographer of the Year awards 2011 for my shot of marching Penguins on the Falkland Islands. The story was commissioned by Lonely Planet magazine. The shoot was a mixture of landscape, people and wildlife. I have never photographed animals in the wild before so it’s great to be nominated in this prestigious award. I posted some images from this job in October, here is the nominated image and some more shots not previously posted.

Playboy executives shoot

 Last month I was commissioned by the new Playboy Club in London to shoot its chief executives.The client referenced the hit American TV series Mad Men as the look and feel they wanted and this was achieved by using a combination of the clubs atmospheric lighting mixed with very subtle use of flash.

Art Direction: Yuecy Lee
Hair and make up: Anna Gibson

27 Stops

Hot on the heels of my success last week at the AOP awards, images from another of my personal projects  are in a collective show at  the East Gallery (http://eastgallery.co.uk) in Brick lane from this evening until the 12th October. The Uncertain States Exhibition features two images from a personal project I undertook in 2010 called 27 Stops.

The London Underground is comprised of eleven lines with a total of twenty seven terminuses. In 2010 I travelled to the communities at the ends of each of these lines to shoot a single portrait. The objective was to photograph a series of 27 portraits in locations that define the outer reaches of London, to portray some of the people that live in or visit the end of the line at evocatively named places like Cockfosters, Barking, Stanmore and Morden.

Please go to my website to see the project in full.