Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Our photographer Natalie recently took the portraits of the celebrated British-Nigerian Artist Yinka Shonibare in his East London studio overlooking Regent’s Canal. Yinka is known to many Londoners for his giant ship-in-a-bottle he created in 2010 for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.He is also known for using African wax...
Jarkko Tontti, Finnish Novelist, Poet and Lawyer Assignment from Helsingin Sanomat to travel to Cambridge and take the portraits of Jarkko Tontti a Finnish novelist, poet, essayist and lawyer.Jarkko a supporter of freedom of speech, moved with his partner to the University of Cambridge, for a year. From the UK, he can clearly see that...
Juggler Sakari Mannisto It was really nice for us to have met Finnish Juggler Sakari Männistö on an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. Sakari is a professional juggler, circus artist and a director, he is also a founding Artistic Director of Agit-Cirk and the Silence Festival in Lapland (2006-present) and London (2017). Natalie our photographer on...
Photographer Sari Soininen It was really nice to have met Finnish photographer Sari Soininen on assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. On her website she describes her work as “photography that draws from philosophical thoughts and personal mystical experiences. Her interest is in providing the viewer with alternative ways of seeing the world and reality around them.”...
Sommarvärdar 2021 Zara Larsson Portrait of Swedish artist Zara Larsson an assignment for Swedish Radio. Zara is wearing a traditional floral crown known as a midsommarkrans and is one of 58 speakers on the highly popular ‘Sommar i P1’ radio programme that has been broadcasted every summer in Sweden since 29th June 1959.Each speaker has a...
Author Richard Osman Richard has many titles to his name: comedian, producer, television presenter, writer and more recently best selling author – he is probably best known as the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. These portraits were for taken for an assignment for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with his...
Author Danny Dorling When Oxford professor Danny Dorling publishes a book titled ‘Finntopia – What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country’ it was not suprising that Finland’s and the Nordic’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat would like to interview him. We met Danny at his home in Oxford where over a cup of tea...
Author Nina Schick It was nice to have recently met author Nina Schick on an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. Nina’s latest book ‘Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse’ highlights the danger from the future that is here now.Advances in artificial & falsified video created by artificial intelligence allows a person in an existing video to be...
John le Carré The nicest thing I know about being working as an editorial photographer illustrating news stories is that every now and then I receive an amazing assignment – as was the case when I recently photographed David Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré. The assignment was for...
Lauren Okadigbo An assignment for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to photograph Finnish stuntwoman Lauren Okadigbo. Lauren is a professional movement artist, dancer, martial arts expert & stuntwoman. She is known for her work on Justice League (2017), Wonder Woman (2017) Ready Player One (2018) and Solo (2018) A Star Wars Story, she has been...
Niamh Cusack An assignment to photograph both a pop-up boutique and the TV and theatre actress Niamh Cusack for the Artisan Studio the UK representative for the French designer, Sophie Cépière. Niamh endorses the Sophie Cépière collection of clothes that use natural materials and eco-friendly dyes and we took her portraits at the launch of...
Amanda Svensson Portraits of Swedish author Amanda Svensson taken by the coast near her home in North Cornwall, an assignment for Dagens Nyheter. Amanda debuted as an author in 2008 with her novel Hey Dolly, her second novel Välkommen till den här världen was nominated to the Augustpriset in 2011. In 2014 her third novel...
Carole Cadwalladr Portraits of Carole Cadwalladr taken for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with that she had been awarded the annual Steig Larsson Prize (author of the The Millennium-trilogy). Carole is a a reporter and feature writer for the Observer, who broke the story that became the Cambridge Analytica scandal. An image was also published by...
Tessa Hadley Portraits of Tessa Hadley photographed at her home in London. An assignment for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with her latest novel ‘Late in the Day’ has been translated into Swedish ‘Syskonen’. Tessa Hadley Novels Accidents in the home (2002). Everything Will Be All Right (2003). The Master Bedroom (2007). The London Train (2011)....
Philippe Sands Assignment from Dagens Nyheter to photograph the portraits of Professor Philippe Sands QC. The portraits were taken as his best seller book East West Street was the first of his many books that has been translated into Swedish ‘Vägen till Nürnberg’.
Caroline Criado Perez An assignment for Dagens Nyheter to take the portraits of Caroline Criado Perez a feminist, writer, campaigner and Consultant. In 2013 Caroline successfully campaigned to keep a woman on an English Banknote and that year the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would appear on the £10 note from 2017....
Ivan Krastev Portraits of Ivan Krastev taken for Dagens Nyheter. Ivan Krastev is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and permanent fellow at the IWM Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. His books in English include “After Europe” 2017.
Rachel Cusk On an assignment for Dagens Nyheter we travelled to the Norfolk coast to meet novelist & writer Rachel Cusk. The interview was in connection with Rachel’s Outline Trilogy with Outline 2014, Transit 2017 & Kudos 2018. I took Rachel’s portraits in her garden and I felt that they worked quite well. I particularly...
Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2017 held a press conference for the world’s press at his publishers Faber & Faber in Bloomsbury, London on the day the Nobel Committee in Stockholm announced his prize. A short walk from Faber & Faber lies the London Review Book Shop, and here we...
Peter Frankopan A nice assignment for Dagens Nyheter to take the portraits of author Peter Frankopan in Oxford where he is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University and also a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Peter’s book (2012), The First Crusade: The Call from the East, was published to wide acclaim and...
Last Night of the Proms A wonderful assignment for Finland’s largest daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to cover the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. There was extra interest in Finland for the 2017 Proms as Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski opened the last Prom (Prom 75) with her new piece ‘Flounce’...
Daisy Evans This was an interesting assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of theatre & opera director Daisy Evans. The portraits were taken minutes before the first production of the silent opera Vixen at the Vaults London. Daisy is the founder of Silent Opera – in an interview with Southwark News she says:...
Antti Holma An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of Finnish actor, writer and author Antti Holma, the images were taken whilst Antti was visiting the Queer British Art 1861–1967 exhibition at Tate Britain. We also filmed the interview that can be viewed by Helsingin Sanomat subscribers.
AA Gill Portraits I was sad to hear about the death of the acclaimed Sunday Times journalist AA Gill. I had the pleasure of once meeting AA GIll (Adrian Anthony Gill) for a photo shoot – why he is wearing a Viking helmet can be found in the original blog post from January 2014.
Phantom Of The Opera Stockholm This was the seconed time I had photographed actor Peter Jöback in his role as Phantom of the Opera. The first time was back in March 2012 when Peter took over the role at Her Majestys Theatre in London, he went on to do the Phantom in New York and...
Pauliina-Pollanen This was an interesting assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to meet Finnish ceramic artist Pauliina Pöllänen. Pauliina talked about her about her residence at Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she will be there until the 30th September 2016. On the V&A website Pauliina says “During my residency, I would like to create a new...
Bob Geldof It was nice to have met and photographed Bob Geldof on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. The Society’s prestigious medals and awards recognise extraordinary achievement in geographical research and the promotion of geography, science and discovery, Bob Geldof KBE received this year’s Patron’s Medal for raising global public awareness and challenging the...
Kate Atkinson It was one of those landings you unfortunately experience now and again when the plane swings erratically from side to side on the approach due to strong side winds and then lands with a heavy thud and you are more than a tad thankful you have not just died – the situation becoming...
Jonathan Franzen To photograph actors, authors & artists is interesting, often rewarding and always challanging. The challange lies not with the person in question but with the time allowed and the location of the shoot. More often than not the artist has a string of interviews during the day and a 20 mintute time slot...
Sadie Jones It was a pleasure to have met and photographed writer and novelist Sadie Jones at her London home. Screenwriter turned author Sadie’s debut novel The Outcast won the First Novel award in the 2008 Costa Book Awards. Her second novel Small Wars was published in 2009 followed by her third novel in 2012...
Jamie Oliver “Never meet your heroes” I always remember being told that by a sport journalist I worked closely with a few years ago “you will only be disappointed”. I was not disappointed when I met Jamie Oliver, he was exactly the sort of person I thought he was, professional, considerate, genuine and all round nice...
Virginia Nicholson On assignment for Aftonbladet I drove down to East Sussex with reporter Staffan Heimerson to meet Virginia Nicholson. Staffan was writing a piece about the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War and the effects it had on the position of women in British society. Virginia was an excellent source...
Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel CBE has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, in 2009 for the novel Wolf Hall, and in 2012 for the novel Bring Up the Bodies. It was a couple of weeks ago when I met Hilary at her publishers offices in central London. The offices were charming but gave no inspiration...
Sigrid Rausing Portraits of Swedish philanthropist Sigrid Rausing founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books. Sigrid was giving interviews for selected media at the offices of Granta in west London, she talked about her new book Everything Is Wonderful an account of rural life in post-Soviet Estonia. As...
Louise Voss and Mark Edwards Last week we were was assigned by Amazon Publishing to take the portraits of authors Louise Voss & Mark Edwards. The photographs were taken at Amazon Publishing’s amazing new central London offices in The City of London at 60 Holborn Viaduct. Louise’s first novel ‘To Be Someone’ was the first...
Sam Smith Sam Smith’s breakthrough followed having featured on Disclosure’s single “Latch” and Naughty Boy’s single “La La La” which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Sam’s debut single “Lay Me Down” was released just a year ago and in a very busy year he has gone on to win the 2014 ‘Brit...
AA Gill Last Saturday I photographed writer & critic AA Gill (Adrian Anthony Gill) for the launch of Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter’s 3 new weekend supplements. The Friday supplement theme is Stockholm, with focus on food and drink. AA Gill is an acclaimed restaurant critic for The Sunday Times. We met at an Italian restaurant...
Katrine Kielos Portraits It was really nice to have met up again with Katrine Kielos an award-winning author in politics & economics. Katrine had assigned me to take portraits of herself for her website and for images to be used in press releases. We used 2 locations, we took the headshots in her offices and...
Roger Waters It is not every day you meet a Rock Legend and I had looked forward to the assignment, we met at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge on a day that Roger was giving many short interviews for chosen media. The interview was focused on his current ‘The Wall‘ tour … it is...
Agnetha Fältskog It is not everyday you get to meet a world artist, an icon … I was lucky to have done so last week when I met former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog. Agnetha was in London promoting her new album ‘A’ which is released today. I was assigned to take the portraits by Swedish...
