Downton Abbey

Can photographers become filmmakers and are the two disciplines really that different?

As many of us are beginning to dare to call ourselves filmmakers, just what exactly can  photographers bring to the medium that sets us apart from others with none photographic backgrounds? Landscape, still life, food, car, architectural, interior, nature, sport, fashion, street … the list goes on. For me at least, there is one genre Read More…

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Don McCullin

Moving portraits of photographer Don McCullin

Just putting the name Don McCullin into a Google search and then hitting ‘Images’ gives you a peak into what appears, to me at least, to be a strange, mystical, disturbing, dark and yet, at times, humorous, rich and wondrous parallel world. His pictures speak to you in a way that many photographers can only Read More…

Royal Wedding

Behind the scenes with Sky TV at the Royal Wedding for 'You' Magazine

A dawn chorus of alarms and texts wakes me at 4am. The Addison Lee car service driver will arrive at 4.30am. I have that sick feeling in my stomach and desperately want to go back to sleep, having got to bed just three hours earlier. I lie there for a moment trying to remember why Read More…

Folio

The alchemy of printing a portfolio and is a printed book still relevant

Book, folio, portfolio – whatever it’s called, it is still seen as an essential tool for most, if not all, serious photographers. And then it’s what to fill it with, what shall I focus on? Do I specialise? And how am I going to create awareness of my work and myself? Although the digital file Read More…