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…
General Election 2019 Edinburgh An assignment for Dagens Nyheter covering ‘The Count’ in Edinburgh which stared in the evening with the first votes being counted by hundreds of vote counters in a vast hanger at the Ingliston Royal Highland Showground. The evening ended in the early hours at a SNP Election Night Party at the…
General Election 2019 St Andrews An assignment for Dagens Nyheter in St Andrews, Scotland on the day of the General Election. We visited the North East Fife constituency of St Andrews and spoke with people on how they had just voted. In most of the UK the choice stands between the Conservatives & Labour, here…
General Election 2019 Grimsby The key for a Conservative majority in today’s General Election is to win in the Labour ‘Red Wall’ the some 50 constituencies in the Midlands & Northern England that stretch from the West to East coast and that have nearly always voted Labour. On assignment for Dagens Nyheter we visited Great…
General Election 2019 Workington Man A think tank identified identified ‘Workington Man’ as a stereotypical swing voter – an older white man who votes Labour but also voted for Brexit, to leave the EU. This crucial group of voters in the ‘Labour Heartlands’ of northern England is the Conservatives new target voter, and could be…
Extinction Rebellion London Extinction Rebellion is calling an International Rebellion starting on October 7th, for 2 weeks. Assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the rebellion in London, images show activists sleeping in tents and protesting outside the Home Office and a protest action outside the Houses of Parliament.
Knepp Wildland Project An enjoyable assignment for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet to photograph & film the Knepp Wildland Project on a 3,500-acre farm near Horsham, West Sussex. Since returning to the wild, the Knepp Castle estate is now an important home for many endangered wildlife species including nightingales and is one of the major hotspots…
Death Cafe Death Cafe meetings are organised by volunteers who arrange meetings for people, often strangers to each other, to meet at a local café where they can eat cake, drink tea and chat about death in an informal manner with the topics determined by attendees. According to the Death Café website there have been…
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…
Conservative Leadership Election The 10th of 16 nationwide Tory leadership hustings for Conservative party members came to the East Midlands and was held at the Nottingham Belfry. The voting members of the Conservative Party heard speeches from both candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt and they were also allowed to ask questions. Last week, the…
Gentleman Jack – Anne Lister A very interesting assignment from Helsingin Sanomat to photograph Shibden Hall in Halifax, the former home of Anne Lister (1791 – 1840). Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by the BBC based on the diaries and life of diarist Anne Lister. Set in 1832 in Halifax, West…
Brixton If you flew SAS during May & June and read their inflight magazine Scandinavian Traveler you may have come across their Brixton feature story that we were assigned to photograph. This was a fun assignment and the brief was to capture the colour, diversity & eclectic buzz of Brixton. Images included the daily street…
Brexit Party Peterborough Images of Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party rally in Peterborough where he confirmed the Brexit party wants to run candidates for Parliament in the next General Election. Sharing the stage were Tim Martin, Ann Widdecombe, Richard Tice and MEP candidates.
Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion activists block Oxford Street and hold a symbolic catwalk across Oxford Circus to highlight the disposable nature of the fashion industry in the epicentre of London’s shopping district. Models paraded across the iconic crossing accompanied by a choir and musicians including opera singers. Assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
March to Leave An assignment from Dagens Nyheter to follow the March to Leave campaign, a protest at the Government’s handling of Brexit organised by Leave Means Leave. The march started in Sunderland on March 16th and will 277 miles later finish in Westminster on March 29th, we followed the Day 3 route from…
Brexit Portraits Portraits from various Brexit editorial assignments these past few weeks from London, Essex, Buckinghamshire & Wales. Images show demonstrators from yesterday 2nd meaningful vote outside Parliament, ‘Brexit Preppers’ people who store food in case of a no deal, Government officials & businesses affected by Brexit.
No Confidence Vote Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence yesterday after more than a third of Tory MPs rejected her leadership. College Green opposite the Houses of Parliament was packed with media teams from around the world, MPs & Ministers including Amber Rudd shuffled between numerous TV & Radio interviews. Demonstrators supporting both…
Stop Brexit Campaigners In the lead up to the Meaningful Vote on the Brexit deal in Parliament many campaigners for and against Brexit have been protesting outside The Houses of Parliament. Ardent remainer Steve Bray, a coins dealer from Port Talbot, in South Wales has been seen by millions of TV viewers as he holds…
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.
Brexit Withdrawal Agreement With the EU leaders agreeing to the UK’s Brexit deal at a Brussels summit we went to Northamptonshire for Dagens Nyheter to gauge the views of voters in Conservative MP Peter Bone’s constituency where in some areas up to 62% voted for leave. We visited working mens clubs where people gave their…
Brexit Draft Agreement Whilst Theresa May was holding a cabinet meeting about the Brexit Draft Agreement hundreds of people from Peoples Vote & Leave Means Leave demonstrated outside 10 Downing St. For hours the worlds press waited for Theresa May to make a statement – the only activity in Downing St during the marathon 5…
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’.
Poundbury A visit to the experimental town of Poundbury for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Poundbury on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset is built on the land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The construction of the town designed by Prince Charles started in 1992 and is now some two-thirds complete and is…
Leave Means Leave The Leave Means Leave cross-party campaign started its ‘Save Brexit Rally’ UK tour in Westhoughton & Bolton with Nigel Farage arriving on a new Battle Bus. Nigel walked around the streets of Westhoughton and visited a market and local pub. In the afternoon a large rally was held at the University…
Labour Conference Liverpool 2018 On the opening day of the Labour Conference in Liverpool a demonstration was held attended by thousands of people demanding a People’s Vote On Brexit. Anti-Brexit protesters marched through Liverpool city centre from St George’s Hall to the Pier Head. An assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
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….
Hard Brexit An assignment for Dagens Nyheter to meet London Swedes who expressed their opinions about how they feel a hard Brexit would effect them should it happen. Also for Dagens Nyheter a visit to MP Boris Johnson’s constituency Uxbridge and Ruislip South to speak with his constituents about their thoughts that the remain voters…
World Cup 2018 Sweden vs England 0-2 English fans celebrating England’s quarter final win over Sweden whilst watching the match on a big screen in 30˚ heat at Flat Iron Square, Southwark, London. Assignment for Dagens Nyheter
Second Salisbury Poisoning Incident Residents and business owners in Salisbury have expressed their concern about the long-term impact on the reputation of the cathedral city after a second nerve agent poisoning incident in four months. The park bench where Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, fell critically ill has been removed – next to where…
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.
Grenfell Tower one year later The 14th of June marked a year since the terrible Grenfell Tower fire that took 72 lives, memorial services were held and 5,000 people were estimated to have taken part in a silent walk in their honour. Grenfell Tower the day it happened
Irish Abortion Referendum An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of Breda Corish, a volunteer & member of the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign that encourages Irish citizens to return home to Ireland to vote in the forth coming Irish abortion referendum on the 25th May.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Royal Wedding Images from 2 assignments for Dagens Nyheter & Helsingin Sanomat about the preparations and build-up in Windsor ahead of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The souvenir shops on Windsor High Street were doing a good trade selling wedding memorabilia a…
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…
Nigel Farage It is not every day you have Nigel Farage sitting opposite you and you ask him to pull up his trousers to show you his socks – which he does. This was an assignment for Dagens Nyheter with correspondent Katrine Marçal to meet with with Nigel Farage when he attended the The…
Salisbury Poisoning Attack An assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter to cover Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Salisbury where she visited the scene of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Theresa May spoke with local shop keepers, 1 of whom was then interviewed, we also met with a Swede now a local…
Brexit In Lowestoft Suffolk A story for Helsingin Sanomat about Britain’s fishing industry & Brexit in England’s most easterly town Lowestoft in Suffolk. The story was in fact 2 interwoven stories about the survival of Lowestoft’s Fish Market & the withdrawal from the London Fisheries 1964 Convention, we met up with June Mummery of Lowestoft…
Conservative Party Turmoil A story for Dagens Nyheter about the turmoil in the Conservative Party with the current Brexit negotiations and the speculation on Theresa May’s possible successor Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for the Constituency of North East Somerset. Interviews were held with Conservative MP’s Jonathan Djanogly, Antoinette Sandbach & Tom Tugendhat who is also…
Corporate Voluntary Work An assignment to follow the voluntary clear up operation at the grounds of Raynes Park Vale Football Club undertaken by the building contractors the Kisiel Group. It was a glorious Winter morning with frost on the ground and clear blue skies above when I met up with some of the team from…
Hattingley Valley English Sparkling Wines This was a nice assignment to visit Hattingley Valley in Hampshire for a story about their English Sparkling Wines for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. English Sparkling Wine English Sparkling Wine is becoming increasingly popular and English vineyards such as Hattingley Valley are winning international prestigious awards where during blind…
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’…
Brexit and the Irish border An artwork by artist Rita Duffy called Soften the Border with cushions made by women’s groups placed on the bridge border between the neighbouring villages of Belcoo in County Fermanagh and Blacklion in County Cavan. A reportage for Dagens Nyheter about Brexit and the Irish border and how goods and…
Princess Diana Memorabilia 78-year-old Jo Dobson stands amongst her extensive collection of Princess Diane memorabilia filling her home in Gloucester. Some of her collection is being exhibited at the Gloucester Life Museum to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death on the 31st August 1997. An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat.
Karl-Johan Persson Karl-Johan Persson CEO of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB launched H&M’s eighth fashion brand, Arket, on Regent Street, London. The new brand, Arket, will sell clothes for adults and children, and household products and will include a cafe offering Swedish-style food. H&M’S other brands include Cos, & Other Stories, Monki, Weekday…
Female Genital Mutilation A reportage about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) for Helsingin Sanomat. We visited the National FGM Centre and met with acting head Meg Fassam-Wright and her staff who talked about their work and their partnership between Barnardo’s and the Local Government Association (LGA) to achieve a systems change in the provision of services…
Brexit in Clacton-on-Sea and Margate An assignment for Dagens Nyheter about Brexit in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex & Margate, Kent. Clacton was chosen having been the stronghold for UKIP and where Douglas Carswell in 2014 became the UKIP’s first elected MP. The story was about how people felt about Brexit and if they voted for UKIP in…
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:…
