The Olympic Stadium and Stratford Traders Reportage for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter about how the Olympics Games will effect local businesses. As always there are 2 sides to a story, those that gain and those that suffer. The only access for the tens of thousands of daily visitors arriving at Stratford going to the…
Tom Blomqvist As a big fan of F1, The McLaren Team and modern architecture to be given the assignment of visiting McLaren’s Headquarters in Woking was … all pleasure and no work. The McLaren Group Headquarters building is magnificent and is the home to McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive. It was opened by the Queen…
Business Photography I was recently assigned by publishers CPL who produce Cheers (the magazine for Molson Coors employees) to photograph Oliver Chadwyck-Healey, beer buyer for Sainsbury’s. The brief was to photograph Oliver with his favourite beer ‘Blue Moon’ at a Sainsbury’s store. I knew i had to have a lot of ‘height’ in the image…
Felicity Aston The nicest thing with editorial and magazine assignments is that you get to meet some amazing people … such as Felicity Aston. The first woman in the world to ski across Antarctica alone. Felicity was in London to talk about her recent expedition and she was also giving interviews. It was not particularly…
Corporate Headshots Today we returned to one of our regular clients to photograph the headshots of 4 staff members. This client likes the fact that we can photograph their staff at the different offices they have spread across London and the results remain consistent and uniform for their marketing purposes.
The new Nikon D4 I was really pleased to pick up my new camera today the new Nikon D4 from my camera suppliers Grays of Westminster (specialist Nikon dealers). As a Nikon NPS (Nikon Profesional Services) member I was on their delivery priority scheme and I was fortunate to be amongst the first photographers in…
Theatre Photography Today I was at Her Majestys Theatre in Haymarket London and photographed the new ‘Phantom’. Swedish artist Peter Jöback has taken over the role. I could not take images of Peter without the mask as the make-up is copyrighted but I felt the images I took worked well considering we only had a…
Author & Writer Portraits I have photographed many Author and Writer Portraits and it is something that I enjoy and always find challenging. I feel the backlighting I used in this portrait works very well. The portrait is of Military Historian Dr Huw Davies, from King’s College London who’s book Wellington’s Wars – The Making…
Svenska Handelsbanken London I photographed Anders Bouvin (CEO Handelsbanken London), at the Handelsbanken Head Office which lies in Wapping. Anders’s office has a wonderful commanding view over The River Thames, Tower Bridge and the nearly completed Shard Tower. Etched on the glass doors to his office are the words “The Branch is the Bank” which…
Editorial Photography On assignment for a Swedish magazine I spent a pleasant day following Charlton Athletics head groundsman Colin ‘Paddy’ Powell. Paddy was a wonderful friendly character and the story was about ‘a day at work’ for him. Paddy is a legend at ‘The Valley’ having played 400 matches for the team.
Bookshops in London I was given a very nice relaxed editorial assignment last week from Sweden’s leading daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. It was ‘relaxed’ as the brief was to visit two London bookshops in my own time during the day and to take images to illustrate a story about how small niche bookshops have survived…
Tottenham after the riots One of the images for a reportage about the people who live and work in Tottenham and wish for their community to be rebuilt after the recent London riots.
Maurice Reeves Working for the Swedish daily newspaper Göteborgs Posten (GP) I met 80-year old Maurice Reeves who’s furniture store ‘House of Reeves’ was burnt to the ground during the recent riots in Croydon, London. The store was set up by Maurice’s great-grandfather Edwin Reeves in 1867 and is now run by Maurice’s 2 sons…
