Office Photography and Headshots We pride ourselves in that we can offer a full corporate photography service to our clients.An example of this is is the photography services we recently provided for the 3rd Generation Family Business of C&H Stedman in Hertfordshire.For their new website that has now been launched they required office photography showing...
Corporate Headshots & Office Photography We were delighted to supply the new headshots & some of the office photography for CIC’s new website.Established in 1895 in the City of London CIC has now had a London presence for 126 years, it is now part of Crédit Mutuel.As more staff are returning to the office we...
Commercial Photography London A pre-lock down commercial photo shoot for our client Wordshop who provide Sainsbury’s with communications material for their company’s pension schemes including a website, guides & brochures. We had 2 photographers on-location at one of their stores where we converted 1 large room into a mobile studio where we photographed staff in...
Pia Rickman Portraits An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of Pia Rickman, Finland’s first Intimacy Coordinator. The images were to be used in an interview about her role as an Intimacy Coordinator and how intimate scenes can be carried out realistically and in a way that feels safe for everyone involved. Behind...
Corporate Composite Group Photography We came up with a good solution facing the SAUL Trustee Company and their dilemma in photographing the Board of Trustees & Executive Management Team in a limited 90 minute time window. 19 People were to be photographed early in the morning before the board meeting and they were all...
Conference Photography London WC1B We were delighted to have be assigned by the AICR (The International Association for Deputy Managers and Front Office Managers of Luxury Hotels) to photograph their Conference at the newly renovated Kimpton Fitzroy in Bloomsbury, London WC1. Their organising committee had prepared an innovative and exciting programme for the delegates which...
Corporate Team Photography The brief we received from the Bridge Partnership was to come along to a meeting they were holding in Southwark, London and to set up a mobile studio to take the headshots against a white background of 10 team members. We were also asked to take some team photography of a meeting...
Event Photo Booth London SE1 We were delighted that the NACFB chose our stand alone photo booth for their gala dinner party following their 2018 industry awards ceremony that was attended by over 700 people at the Westminster Plaza in London SE1. The booth was very well attended and our clients tell us that they...
Corporate Headshots London WC1V An assignment for Electralink that shows an example of how we can offer our clients a full corporate photography service. We photographed the corporate headshots of their 29 staff that we supplied with a white background, we also photographed the 4 members of the management team and supplied their images...
Harry and Meghan Royal Wedding A short editorial film for Finlands largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat about the build-up to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding in Windsor. Helsingin Sanomat required a short film for their website & social media and they required it as soon as possible so we started interviewing people arriving at...
Editorial Filming In London We are delighted to launch our new Editorial Videography page with our throwback editorial film of Dismaland, the twist on Disneyland the temporary art project that was organised by Banksy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Christmas Party Photo Booth Shoreditch This was a cool fun Christmas party photo booth event for our client the production company Splice at the Pickle Factory … before being turned into a venue it was the former home of a company called Swedish Delicatessen that manufactured a range of pickles and chutneys for many years....
Photo Booth Shoreditch We were very excited to have had our photo booth chosen for the first house party at D&AD’s offices in Shoreditch together with sponsored Creative Debuts & Microsoft Surface UK. The event was packed with artists testing the Microsoft Surface family of devices & accessories and a live ‘Surface Art Battle’ in...
Composite Corporate Group Images Our client wished for a group image of all their staff, 3 separate team images & 22 individual headshot images and they booked us for our Headshot Custom Background & Composite Group Images package. All the people you see in the above group images were photographed separately and then combined...
Complete Corporate Photography Service The work we have carried out for a leading construction and property consultancy company Calfordseaden is a very good example of how we can offer a complete corporate photography service to businesses. We photographed the corporate headshots of 227 staff members spread across 6 towns & cities in Southern England and...
Corporate Website Photography We were thrilled to have been chosen and commissioned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to supply the photography for their new website that has just been released. Their new website is a merger of the ASA website and the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) website. Whilst they need to illustrate some...
Corporate Group Photography We have just updated our corporate group photography gallery where we are showing examples of how we can photograph your group images. These group photo’s can be taken at the same time as we take your corporate headshots or at your corporate event.
Britain Stronger In Europe Campaign Britain Stronger In Europe the main organisation campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union took their new campaign bus to London and the Queen Mary University. Jo Johnson Conservative MP for Orpington & Chuka Umunna Labour MP for Streatham climbed out of the bus and met with young Britain...
Walking For Health As part of a larger story about UK health issues and making lifestyle choices to combat health problems we joined the Hammersmith group of Walking for Health and walked part of the Thames Path with them. Walking for Health is England’s largest network of health walks with over 400 active schemes, helping...
Carnegie Library As part of a larger story about library closures around Europe we visited Carnegie Library in Lambeth where campaigners for the Defend the 10 group had been occupying Carnegie Library since the 31st of March on the day it was closed by Lambeth Council for re-development. The 10 day occupation ended on Saturday...
Corporate Composite Portraits We recently photographed the directors, producers & management for talkSPORT the world’s largest sports radio station. They required new images for their press releases, marketing & PR, the brief was to photograph and deliver the portraits with a neutral white background and with some staff also to be photographed in a recording...
Grassroots Out (GO) Campaign A visit for Helsingin Sanomat with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to a Grassroots Out (GO) campaign meeting held in Purfleet, Essex. Grassroots Out, or GO for short, is made up of politicians and supporters from across the political spectrum and is in favour of EU withdrawal in the forthcoming EU...
Kenny Bräck Racing Driver It was really nice to have received the assignment from TT Nyhetsbyrån to photograph the portraits of Swedish Racing Driver Kenny Bräck to illustrate an article that he was celebrating his 50th birthday today. It was some fifteen years ago I last met Kenny. Kenny Bräck is Sweden’s most successful racing...
Eurosceptic map of London New YouGov research using the profiles data of over 80,000 British people on the YouGov panel reveals the most and least Eurosceptic areas of Britain. In the London boroughs the borough of Havering is the most eurosceptic (also in Britain) in contrast Lambeth is the top borough for Europhiles. We visited...
European or British? Just before Christmas we went to the aptly named tavern The Union to gauge what Brits feel about the EU and if they identify themselves as European or British. According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, as many as 64% of people in the UK deny that they feel in any way ‘European’. In...
Leicester City FC An assignment for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter to visit Leicester City Football Club for a reportage about the city, the club and the fans. In the city centre we saw the statue commemorating the success in one season (1996-97) of Leicester’s three sporting teams: Leicester City FC, the football club, the Tigers...
Daniel Hannan On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat I went to Brighton with London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to meet up with Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. We met up Daniel outside Brighton train station where he together with other colleagues were handing out leaflets on behalf...
David Bowie 1947-2016 Being born in the fifties I grew up with Bowie and for me he was quite simply the best, so many memories from the Space Oddity, Hunky Dory & Ziggy Stardust era. On the morning of the 11th when his death became known David Bowie fans started to create makeshift shrines around...
London Editorial Photographer Some latest assignments taken for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The first image shows a visit to Hatton Garden, London to illustrate a story about the market price for diamonds is in a long, slow decline. The second image is from an article comparing the drinking culture in Finland and the UK....
Celebrating 25 Years as Professional Photographers 2016 sees us both celebrating 25 years as professional photographers. It has been an amazing journey and we are really privileged to have work that does not feel like work at all – more a way of life. Our editorial assignments have taken us all round the world and...
Editorial Photography Assignments The nicest aspects of being commissioned for editorial photography assignments is the diversity of the work and the challenge each assignment brings – I am showing a couple of recent assignments for Finland’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, who also have an English online version Helsinki Times. Hinkley Point The government had announced...
Corporate Portraits Mayfair London W1 Our client Voltaire Financial based in Mayfair has just launched their new website. They wished for images taken with a Mayfair background and the choice fell to photographing the directors and staff on the streets with a diffused background showing the distinctive red brickwork found on many Mayfair buildings (such as...
Three Choirs Vineyard I knew that over the last few years English wines have been winning many prestigious awards, and I have also tasted many excellent English wines but I had never visited an English vineyard so it was with great pleasure I received an assignment from Swedish Dagens Nyheter to do just that. With...
Tomas Lindahl Nobel Prize Winner Chemistry 2015 The annual Nobel Prize Awards are being announced in Stockholm and on Tuesday The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Swede Tomas Lindahl from the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire. The award is shared with Paul...
Cheddar Cheese made in Cheddar Somerset Cheddar is the most popular type of cheese in the UK, surprisingly not many people know that Cheddar Cheese derives its name from the village of Cheddar in Somerset … I do, it is where I grew up. It was nice to return to Cheddar on assignment for the Finnish...
Rugby School In the lead up to the Rugby World Cup 2015 and on assignment for Dagens Nyheter we visited Rugby School in Warwickshire known as the birthplace of Rugby after the celebrated incident when William Webb Ellis first decided to pick up a football and run. A huge number of Rugby fans will be...
Dismaland Bemusement Park Dismaland Bemusement Park opened on the 21st August and is scheduled to run until 27th September 2015. On the first day of the tickets going online I was one of the estimated 6 million people that tried to purchase tickets – the website crashed, to be honest I thought the possibility of...
Jeremy Corbyn On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat we travelled down to Southampton to meet Corbyn who is on his Labour Party leadership campaign trail. The Labour favourite hosted a rally and filled the 750 capacity hall at the Ageas Bowl. Jeremy Corbyn may have entered the Labour leadership race as an outsider at 100/1, but...
Operation Stack Reportage about Operation Stack a procedure used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to ‘stack’ up to 5,700 lorries on the M20 motorway. We met with lorry drivers on the M20 Junction 11 Services and locals in the village of Charing, Kent where the roads have been gridlock due...
Wimbledon 2015 An assignment for Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter about Jonas Björkman former World No. 4 and triple Wimbledon doubles champion. Jonas is now coach for Andy Murray. French coach Amélie Mauresmo started coaching Andy about a year ago and Jonas joined the team in April and will take over as head coach when Amélie will...
Conference Photographer London It was a pleasure to have photographed international consultancy company Cubiks 2 day conference held in London. There were around 150 delegates with many flying in from Cubiks offices spread around the world. On Day 1 a business development workshop was held which had a combination of presentations in theatre-style; business simulation...
Corporate Photography Watford We are delighted to have been chosen by award-winning multi-specialism agency Lansons to provide the corporate photography for their client RCI Bank which was launched in the UK today. Last week we photographed the directors as individual portraits and in group images. For the portraits we utilised the new company blue branding...
Corporate Headshots Shoreditch EC2 | Corporate Portraits I recently completed on a very interesting creative assignment for Seren Design Consultancy and their client Visa Europe Colab. The Visa Europe Collab website has now been launched. The brief was to capture headshots & portraits of the 21 team members outdoors in Shoreditch where they have their offices. The images...
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson It was a pleasure to have been assigned recently by ukactive to photograph Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and other executives at the ukactive headquarters. The images of Tanni and the executives were taken in the backyard of the building … perhaps not the most glamorous of settings but I liked the colour and texture...
Hay Festival 2015 I am just back from Hay-on-Wye in Wales having photographed the build up to the The Hay Festival – Imagine The World that runs from the 21st-31st May. The festival kicks off in earnest today Saturday, some 80,000 visitors are expected to visit the festival. The first 2 days were mainly for school...
Editorial Photographer in London One of the most rewarding things about working as an Editorial Photographer is the diversity of the assignments. Last week was no exception with assignments in 3 counties all about the run up to the General Election. Bedford, Bedfordshire. The above image taken for Helsingin Sanomat illustrated the interview of local...
General Election 2015 I recently completed a 5 day reportage trip around Britain for Sweden’s largest daily morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter together with their London correspondent Pia Gripenberg. Brighton – The Green Party We went to the Hanover the Green heartland area in Brighton affectionately known as ‘Muesli Mountain’ and spoke with local residents about...
International Students Tuition Fees On assignment for Dagens nyheter we travelled to Sheffield to meet Keith Burnett Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and current students who talked about their views on their own international students tuition fees. It is still very attractive to study in the UK but in 2014 came a report that...
Video clip at Dagens Nyheter. Black Cab Knowledge Ever fancied becoming a London Cabbie? then be prepared for a very hard & long education …just as long as any University Degree. To drive a Black Cab in London you must pass The Knowledge exam. It takes on average...
Brighton and Hove Green Party National support for the Green Party has surged in recent weeks, with a number of polls placing them on 10% or more of the vote. Media attention is on the Greens stronghold Brighton and Hove which has both Britain’s only Green MP Caroline Lucas and since 2011 a local Green...
Anita Ekberg Today it was announced that the Swedish-born star of La Dolce Vita, Anita Ekberg, has died in Rome at age 83. I had the pleasure of taking Anita’s portraits 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was best known for her role in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita, in which she played Sylvia...
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion A recent assignment for Helsingin Sanomat with 2 interviews in the Berkshire county area based on a recent report monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2014. This annual report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI), tells the definitive story of how the UK’s economic recovery is affecting people in poverty,...
Mobile Home Services There are many companies in the UK that supply mobile services and come to your home which is extremely convenient and most have very reasonable prices – in part due to the fact that they do not have the large overhead costs conventional businesses have such as a business premise lease & rates....
Justice for Domestic Workers J4DW On assignment for Swedish trade union newspaper Kommunalarbetaren together with reporter Pernilla Josefsson we did a reportage about Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW) a self-help group for Migrant Domestic Workers campaigning for their rights and welfare in the UK, they represent around 500 members. J4DW are a self-organised branch of...
Calais Migrants A few days ago I was in Calais for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to do a story with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä about the situation of the Calais Migrants. An estimated 2,300 people live in squalid camps near the French port. A quote by the port’s mayor Natacha Bouchart “Calais migrants...
London Corporate Photography We recently completed on an exciting project for a client who commissioned us to photograph all of their London corporate photography requirements. The brief for this fast growing firm was divided into 3 parts: A) They required on-location London images of 2 of their staff who were to feature in their ongoing...
London Walks Jack The Ripper On this our 2nd walk we met our guide Molly outside the Tower Hill Underground Station and together with some 25 others we walked off into East London, the heart of the Ripper’s killing ground. This was a very interesting tour. When we reached the murder crime scenes Molly showed...
London Walks Sherlock Holmes I recently did 2 London walks for Dagens Nyheter’s Travel supplement. The first was the ‘In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes’. We met up with our guide Corinna outside the Embankment Underground Station and finished 2 hours later at the The Sherlock Holmes Pub on Northumberland Street. This was an interesting...
Douglas Carswell UKIP 2 days before the Clacton-on-Sea by-election we visited the seaside town to do a story about Douglas Carswell who remains the odds-on favourite to win today’s poll triggered by his defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP. We arrived at UKIP’s Clacton headquarters just as Douglas Carswell also arrived shaking hands with...
The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 And so it was the day of the Referendum. Together with Pia (Dagens Nyheter’s London Correspondent) we decided rather than to photograph people voting in one of the cities we would follow someone in a quintessential Scottish village. The choice fell to the beautiful village of Braemar in the heart...
The Scottish Independence Referendum With just 2 days to go until a referendum on separation both the YES & NO campaigners are out door-knocking across Scotland. We followed both campaigns in Edinburgh, armed with lists of previously contacted undecided voters they were trying to get votes in a final push. On the eve of the...
Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 “Should Scotland be an independent country?” is the referendum question that the Scottish people will ask themselves and answer with a simple Yes or No on Thursday 18 September 2014. This was my second trip to Scotland for Dagens Nyheter, together with London correspondent Pia Gripenberg we visited Edinburgh, Glasgow &...
Dylan Thomas 100 years This year is the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). For Dagens Nyheter I spent a day with reporter Marianne Björklund following in Dylan’s trail. Our first stop was to visit his birth place, an Edwardian house perched high up on 5 Cwmdonkin Drive with views over Swansea. Over...
Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 I recently completed a 4 day trip travelling through Scotland for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter together with their London correspondent Marianne Björklund. We visited Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Stirling and the Scottish Highlands. It was a very interesting trip, the purpose of which was to meet many Scots and to...
Sculpture In The City 2014 This was a fun assignment, to photograph one of the 14 artworks that is on display in a free exhibition Sculpture in the City, in the City Of London. Death metal band Unfathomable Ruination performed in an airtight, soundproofed small metal cube outside the Gherkin. The band were inaudible to...
Shakespeare 450th Birthday This was a fun assignment taken recently to photograph the lead up of Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday Celebrations held in London & Stratford-upon-Avon. We first met Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal and then visited the Globe Theatre in London before going to Stratford-upon-Avon where we visited Shakespeare’s birthplace, New Place & Nash’s House and his...
Editorial Portrait Photography I recently did an assignment in Ramsgate about local residents opinions on the next election. Kent was chosen as it is rumoured that Nigel Farage is set to contest one of the local Thanet seats. I have always loved this type of photography, taking editorial portraits in an environment as found.
Marcus Ericsson F1 Driver I am a big fan of Formula 1 and have had the great pleasure of photographing many F1 races in Europe, so it was a fun assignment to drive to Leafield in Oxfordshire to visit the Caterham F1 Team and meet the new 2014 Swedish F1 Driver Marcus Ericsson. It was...
Floods Datchet Wraysbury Old Windsor Having covered the floods in Somerset last week for Sweden’s largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter I never thought that I would be doing the same in my home town of Eton a week later. January’s floods came back to Berkshire with vengeance and the flooding was/is extreme. We visited Eton,...
Somerset Floods Moorland. It was when at 2am a Police helicopter hovering over her house using a public address system announced “evacuate” that Brenda Lawlor decided enough was enough and she left her home. The flood waters had risen by a metre and for Moorland a Severe Flood Warning had been issued: ‘Severe flooding. Danger...
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...
Victoria Coach Station is the UK’s Ellis Island Images showing a recent story published in Sweden’s national newspaper Dagens Nyheter just before Christmas about Romanian and Bulgaria citizens who will now have the right to work freely in the UK as from tomorrow the 1st January 2014. Reporter Marianne Björklund wrote an interesting impartial and...
Foodbank On assignment for Dagens Nyheter we visited Coventry where we met Gavin Kibble who runs the Coventry Foodbank – part of the Trussell Trust Foodbanks. Gavin talked about how they expected to give food to 16,000 people in Coventry this year double the requirement in 2012. From April to September this year the Trussell...
Swedish Royal visit to London On assignment for the Swedish Embassy in London I covered the first day of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel’s 2 day visit to London & Cambridge, they were accompanied by Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Björling. The day’s events began with a visit to Hackney Community College in East London...
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the United Kingdom We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen as the official photographers for The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK (SCC), we shall photograph key events that the SCC organise in London. The first event we will cover is the annual Christmas luncheon...
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...
Open Europe Last month on assignment for Swedish magazine Arena I met and photographed Open Europe’s Director Mats Persson at their London office in Westminster. The interview (in Swedish) by Katrine Kielos can be read online at Arena. Mats was involved with the team that wrote Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech last February about his...
Julian Assange Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. On assignment I photographed a few loyal supporters a couple of days before – they turn up every day at around 4pm and demonstrate for a couple of hours before going home. I have...
Nigel Farage Yesterday on assignment I photographed UKIP founder Farage at The Foreign Press Association in London. It was a meeting for foreign journalists who were given the opportunity to speak with Farage, I was there for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Farage was in good humour and he spoke openly about UKIP.
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...
BBC Broadcasting House London It was really interesting to have visited the new BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place in the heart of London. Eventually, 6,000 people – more than a quarter of all BBC staff will be based in Broadcasting House, one of the world’s largest broadcast complexes. The BBC now gathers its news...
Krister Henriksson It we really nice to have met and photographed Swedish actor Krister Henriksson last week in London, Krister is best know as Kurt Wallander in Henning Mankell’s widely praised Swedish TV series Wallander. Krister will soon make his West End debut in Doktor Glas at the Wyndham’s Theatre from 16th April – 11th...
Katrine Kielos It was nice to have met Swedish writer Katrine Kielos last week on assignment for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Katrine is based in London and is a columnist for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, she writes about social democracy & economic policy and is the author of a number of books the latest titled...
London Editorial Photography I had an interesting assignment this week from Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. They wanted to do a story about 2 Conservative politicians and their view on the EU. It was to be published on Friday the same day that David Cameron was to hold an important speech over the UK’s membership of...
David Nuttall On an assignment for Sweden’s largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter I met David Nuttall, Conservative MP and longstanding critic of the EU. The interview was about Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. We met at Portcullis House which lies just a short walk from the main Palace of Westminster, it is used...
Corporate Business Photographer London AVEQIA London It was a pleasant assignment to have visited AVEQIA the Swedish restaurant and cookery school in London. Following its success in Sweden with restaurants in Stockholm & Gothenburg founded in 2009 by entrepreneur Johan Kadar and chef David Berggren the restaurant concept has now arrived in London, there are...
Edmund de Waal On a recent agency assignment I was commissioned to photograph ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal at his studio in South London. Edmund has made installations for Chatsworth, Kettle’s Yard, Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the author of The Pot Book and the bestseller The Hare with Amber...
Editorial Photographer London I have worked a lot for different Swedish media in London over the past couple of weeks. Yesterday I was assigned by Sweden’s leading daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter to cover the stand-offvsituation about Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian London Embassy. The assignment was to illustrate the large press contingent outside the embassy...
Editorial Portraits London I have a great respect for Editorial Photographers. They have to daily produce outstanding creative images more often than not working under difficult circumstances and to a tight deadline. With this post I thought I would give a behind the scene’s story of a normal editorial assignment and the challenges that have to...
Learning The Knowledge Black Cab London Ever fancied becoming a London Cabbie? then be prepared for a very hard long education …just as long as any University Degree. To drive a Black Cab in London you must pass ‘The Knowledge’ exam. It takes on average 3 years to pass the exam and during that time...
Olympic Stadium and Stratford Traders Reportage for the 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 Racing Driver 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...
Business Photography London I was recently assigned by publishers CPL who produce the magazine 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’...
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...
Peter Jöback Phantom Of The Opera Today I was at Her Majestys Theatre in Haymarket London and photographed the new ‘Phantom Of The Opera’. Swedish artist Peter Jöback has taken over the role. I was not allowed to take images of Peter without the mask as the make-up is copyrighted. I felt the images I...
Author Portraits Writer Portraits I have photographed many Author & Writer Portraits and it is something that I always enjoy and find challenging. I feel the backlighting I used in this outdoor portrait works 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 London 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.
London Bookshops 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 bookshops in my own time during the day and to take images to illustrate a story about how small niche bookshops have survived the current...
Tottenham after the riots One of the images used for a documentary 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 shop was set up by Maurice’s great-grandfather Edwin Reeves in 1867 and is now run by Maurice’s 2 sons...
10 Downing Street A peek behind the most famous door in the world 10 Downing Street. The original door was made of black oak and can be seen in the Churchill Museum, the door is now bomb-proof and made of metal. There is no point in ringing the brass door bell because it does not...
