The study of a scrunch

This is a project I shot a while ago and have finally found the time to finish it, it’s titled The study of a scrunch. 

I was messing around it the studio with some circular paper I’d found, scrunching it up I  realise every scrunched up ball when undone was completely unique, like a fingerprint everyone a total original never to be repeated. 

So hundreds of scrunched up paper balls later I selected and photographed the best ones. Here are the results

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A dozen dead roses

It’s soon Valentines day, a day for which 250 million roses get produced and in the UK alone around £1.9 billion gets spent on flowers. So I thought it apt to share my latest personal project ‘A dozen dead roses’.

It’s a study of how the beauty of roses remains even after they’ve died. Shot at the end of the day as the sun sets the light change brings warmth back into the rose petals.

Tasty treats with shortlist magazine.

At the end of last year shortlist magazine asked me to shoot some lovely food for them. A super tasty bibimbap perfect for the detox in the new year and some alternative BLT sandwiches invented by Max the genius behind Max’s sandwich shop. The shoot was great fun and I got to work with the talented Rob Morris who styled all the food, his stack of BLT sdwiches was a feat of engineering!  

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A merry Monocle christmas

It's that time of year again my 10th Monocle christmas guide. I love seeing what Josh at Monocle gets in for the gift guide and this year was a great one I wanted to take 90% of it home which is always a good sign!

This year was a sneak peek into the front room to see what Monocle santa had left for the big day.

Thunderbirds are GO!!!!

Great to see my Halifax Thunderbirds ads I shot for Adam & Eve DDB up on billboards all over the place. Was also great to become part of Thunderbirds history at the same time. My shoot was the last time the Thunderbirds were filmed and photographed in the original studio that Gerry Anderson set up all those years ago, sadly now the studio is being knocked down. Was great to get to see it and all the amazing sets and meet the famous puppets

Happy Easter/mothers day from Sainsbury's

Great to see more of my Sainsbury's launch campaign out and about, this time  for Mothers day and now Easter.

Shot for the wonderful guys at Wiedens.

 

Stylish Comfort Food

At the beginning of the year myself and Jessica Dance were asked to collaborate on a cover shot for the London sylist magazine. The theme was Comfort food so we shot Bangers and mash and some beans on toast. The shots looked great and the cover went down very well to the point where it went viral the following week!

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Monocle's got it covered

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I'm pleased to announce that this months double issue of monocle with my latest cover shot is available now. Also above is my cover shot for the travel top 50, and I shot there bumper christmas gift section. The cover shot is a paper craft medicine cabinet made by Japanese artist Makiko Azakami.