River Studio

22/04/2024

1st camp of the year 😀🎪

09/04/2024

Another from the excellent shoot with and in my studio recently. Dance, model, actor portfolios..need one?

24/03/2024

Here’s another from the recent aerial shoot with Charlotte Dangermouse.

24/03/2024

Been shooting aerial in the studio recently with a view to shooting more portfolios. I have a rigging point for hoop , flying pole and silks. Anyone interested in a shoot let me know. Here's the brilliant Charlotte Dangermouse.

07/12/2023

Sorry to hear about Benjamin Zephania.. we worked together a couple of times and he was always great fun.

17/01/2022

22/05/2021

Amazing shot of Birmingham

21/03/2021

Here's a little video of me..promoting..er..me.😀

17/12/2020

I had the pleasure of photographing the book cover for an author yesterday..some great shots came out of a very minimal concept. More to follow once the book is out but here is one of the shots.

14/10/2020

I shoot people for a living !

My background if we go way back is in commercial and advertising photography where I would do lots of product, food, car, room set and location photography. This work never goes away, I just do perhaps a little less of it than I used to. I often wonder why and have come to the conclusion that it may well have been my first exhibition, This England that turned me more into a "people" photographer. Don't get me wrong, I am still happily accepting other types of work but probably 75% of what I shoot..is people. I even have the T shirt ; " I shoot people for a living" ( I just don't wear it at airports !!) So back to This England ( I really really need to write the book one day)..I spent 1999 on and off travelling around the country photographing English subculture..the unseen, the underdog..in fe**sh clubs, biker rallies, battle re-enactments, music venues, goth and heavy metal clubs and rock and roll clubs. The exhibition was a great success and I seriously had direct spin off work from this for a decade..and perhaps even longer as it seemed to establish me as the "go to" photographer for people. I guess if I can talk to and persuade a drunk Hell's Angel, a clubber on acid, or a Viking on a battlefield to have their picture taken..it would not be much of a problem doing the same with an accountant, managing director or an academic. This work in turn led me to another project ; This Birmingham where I photographed the "great and the good" from the city. I met and photographed Toyah Wilcox ( then played in a support band, opening for her about an hour later) I travelled to London for 15 mins to shoot Frank Skinner and around the city and in my studio shot businessmen, property developers, founders of charities, award winning chefs and TV presenters, poets and lawyers. All wonderful stuff..and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah a month or two after we met, asked me to photograph his wedding, not something I would normally do...but I made an exception that time. So why people? Because people are fascinating, have a history and a story to tell..it makes the work a pleasure. I see it as having an interesting conversation..oh and getting some great pictures along the way. It's not always "easy". I teach / lecture in photography from time to time and although you can explain exposure, composition and the rule of thirds..how do you "teach" people to engage in conversation with a pop star, royalty or millionnaire..or indeed the shop floor worker, mechanic or estate agent? I guess it's just about being honest and open, being flexible and adaptable to whatever situation you find yourself in.. this I suppose is the joy of working in the "arts"..there is sometimes the capacity to bend the rules, think on your feet..I'd be no good as a mathematician where 5 + 5 always equals 10. Having said that, there IS the science part to photography that sometimes cannot change however many times the client says ; "oh but surely you can "fix" that in Photoshop??"

26/05/2020

The studio is tidy and CLEANED. Plenty of distancing space, let the shoots commence! Ready when you are.

30/04/2020

Here's one from the archive..I have been a guest on the Gadget Show a couple of times as their photography expert...here I was testing out cameras and this was on the roof of The Custard Factory..you can see me reflected in the TV camera lens.

03/04/2020

Some work of mine for BRB. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0025496/birmingham-royal-ballet-home-from-home

Live stream and participate in a special ballet class with world-class dancers.

24/02/2020

Not my usual subject but loved this shoot today.

30/01/2020

From the archive.. The Rezillos. I drove to Edinburgh for this shoot having interviewed the band for a magazine.

13/01/2020

My background if we go way back is in commercial and advertising photography where I would do lots of product, food, car, room set and location photography. This work never goes away, I just do perhaps a little less of it than I used to.

08/10/2019