The climate movement An assignment for Dagens Nyheter about climate activists.We travelled to an organic farming, artist village and meeting place outside Worcester to meet a group that calls itself Umbrella, a network of organisations like Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand, both of which grew out of the Extinction Rebellion climate movement. Their message...
Birmingham Bin Strike Since Unite Union members began the all-out Birmingham bin strike on 11 March, tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish have piled up uncollected, prompting Birmingham City Council to declare a major incident and issue a public health warning.After five weeks of stalemate between the council and Unite, Communities Secretary Angela Rayner...
Ellinor Bengtson | Trumpet Player It was really nice to have met Swedish trumpet player Ellinor Bengtson and to have photographed her at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Ellinor has been named as classical Artist 2025-26 (Klassiska artisten I P2).The assignment was from Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio) and it was to photograph Ellinor...
Fashion shoot with Hely Abbondati We were are asked to photograph a fashion shoot for Finland’s biggest fashion magazine Gloria – it was fun.It was for the magazines ‘My Style’ section and featured the very colourful 77 year old Hely Abbondati, a former expert Finnish figure skating referee.
Portraits of Peter Pomerantsev Assignment from Dagens Nyheter to photograph Peter Pomerantsev who was visiting London to give interviews about his latest book How To Win An Information War. I took Peter’s portraits in North London where he grew up. He now lives in Washington.
Mobile Phone theft in London 2024 Silja is one of thousands of people in London who have had their mobile phones snatched by criminals using bikes and mopeds. In her case, two masked youths on bikes grabbed her phone while she was out for her morning jog. According to figures from the Metropolitan Police, 72,936...
Southport Community Spirit A mass stabbing targeting children occurred at a dance studio in Southport, Merseyside. Three children were killed, and 10 other people – eight of whom were children were injured. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, misinformation about the identity of the attacker began to spread widely on social media. The following...
The Labour Party in the UK General Election 2024 An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to visit Clacton-on-Sea & Peterborough to meet with Labour parliamentary candidates as Labour are set for a landslide victory in UK general election on July 4th. In Clacton-on-Sea we met with Labour candidate Jovan Owuso-Nepaul who is standing against Nigel Farage...
Reform UK The Tories are now just four points ahead of Reform UK.A YouGov survey conducted on March 19th and 20th put the Conservative Party on 19% of the vote and Reform on 15% – a record high for the party. An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to meet their party candidates in Dagenham, London at...
Finnish Olympic Sauna A given story for Finlands largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat about a Finnish wooden sauna from the 1948 London Olympics that has just received a Grade II listing – the same status given to Alexandra Palace. After the Olympics the Finnish Olympic delegation donated the sauna to the nation and it was acquired...
Jean Seaton An assignement for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of Professor Jean Seaton at home in London. Jean is the Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is also the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly.She...
Portraits of Artist Mette Linturi It was great to have met up with Mette Linturi in London to take her portraits for Finnish Helsingin Sanomat.Our photographer Natalie Earthy did all the photography and I assisted with the lighting and took some video clips for the newspapers social media. We were uncertain if the photoshoot would...
British pubs are closing and disappearing An assignment for Svenska Dagbladet about British Pubs that are closing at an alarming rate.A hundred years ago, there were close to 100,000 pubs in Great Britain. In 2021, there were just over 37,500 pubs left. In 2022, over 1,000 pubs were forced to close. This year, around 20...
Zećira Mušović Is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chelsea in the Women’s Super League and also for the Swedish national woman’s team. The assignment from Swedish Dagens Nyheter was to photograph Zećira for a forthcoming story about individual Swedish team players in the build up to the FIFA WORLD CUP...
Britain’s rivers are being ruined by thousands of sewage spills An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat about the national scandal of water companies discharging untreated sewage that is polluting Britain’s rivers, lakes & coastline.Data recently released from the Environment Agency showed there was an average of 825 sewage spills per day into England’s waterways in 2022....
Swedish Military Instructors in the UK Up to 10,000 Ukrainian citizens will be given training by the UK Armed Forces over the coming months at four sites across England.The Swedish government has sent to the UK up to 120 military instructors to conduct basic military training where over five weeks the Ukrainian citizens will receive...
Flowers outside Buckingham Palace Thousands of people are leaving flowers outside Buckingham Palace and messages of support to the Royal Family as the nation mourns Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96 Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96, peacefully at her home of Balmoral. Thousands of people gathered outside Buckingham Palace to pay respects to Her Majesty the Queen following the announcement of her death.
Conservative Leadership Election 2022 The next leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will be announced on 5th September, after 12 rounds of hustings around the UK. On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat we visited the 2nd round of hustings in Exeter, Devon.The surprise at this hustings...
An assignment from the Swedish Embassy in London to photograph the King and Queen of Sweden who visited the AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre In Cambridge. During the tour Queen Silvia tried on a HoloLens in a demonstration of how augmented reality helps with HoloLens technology. The following day they attended the Signing Of A Memorandum Of...
Cecilie Fjellhoy Portraits of Cecilie Fjellhøy who is featured in Netflix’s documentary programme The Tinder Swindler.The assignment was from VG (Verdens Gang) who required a series of portraits of Cecilie and also some behind the scenes images of her being filmed at home by the Norwegian film team from ‘Luksusfellen’ with programme leaders Hallgeir Kvadsheim...
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts a summit for members of the Joint Expeditionary Force, the group includes Finland, The Netherlands, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson during her meeting with Boris Johnson inside 10 Downing Street. Assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
The Labour party’s ‘red wall’ is now blue Labour’s red wall, the set of constituencies mainly in the Midlands, Northern England and North East Wales turned blue during the 2019 general election. Redcar was the largest Labour majority overturned by the Conservatives with Jacob Young MP winning with a majority of 3,527.An assignment for Helsingin...
Storm Eunice hits the UK Storm Eunice hits the UK with a rare red weather warning. This image of Newhaven lighthouse, East Sussex, was taken early in the morning when the wind speeds were up to 80mph (34m/s). Behind The Picture I wanted to illustrate storm Eunice with a dramatic image and felt that a...
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...
Hong Kong Resident Visa Scheme An assignement for Helsingin Sanomat about a Hong Kong family that have moved to Sheffield. A visa scheme to allow Hong Kong residents to come to the UK opened in January, with some 300,000 people expected to apply.Those who hold a British National Overseas (BNO) passport will be allowed to...
Boston and Brexit The Lincolnshire town of Boston that is surrounded by flat arable land had immigration levels increase by 460% between 2004-14 mainly from Eastern Europe.The town also had the highest UK leave vote of 76% in the 2016 referendum. A visit to the town for Helsingin Sanomat to find out how Boston is...
Hen Rehoming An assignment from Helsingin Sanomat about Hen Adoption.The British Hen Welfare Trust has for the past 16 years has been rescuing hens from slaughter and rehoming them as pets throughout the UK. They hold regular rehoming days throughout the UK which are dependent on farm slaughter dates. A minimum of 3 hens are...
Dover and Brexit Christmas Eve and Dover saw severe disruptions.Thousands of lorries in Kent heading for the Port of Dover were parked at Manston Airport and along the M20 motorway with Operation Stack & Brock activated due to the sudden 48 hour closure of France’s border (in light of a new strain of Covid-19) with...
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...
City Of London Ghost Town The City of London, one of the most important financial centres in the world, was pre-Covid a hive of activity with some 518,000 people commuting into the City every day – it is now a ghost town. No one knows when life will return to its streets. On assignment for...
Brexit Lorry Park & Customs Clearance Centre Ashford An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat about the lorry park & Brexit customs clearance centre being built at Asford next to the M20 motorway in Kent where it is planned that some 2,000 lorries can be parked on the site. The lorry park’s 27-acre site is being built...
It was nice to have met Mihály Szeróvay, an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat.Mihály a former Hungarian football player retired from playing football and moved to Finland where he took his Master’s & Doctor’s degree before becoming a University lecturer in football in Southampton. The reason for the assignment was that Mihály had just become Finlands...
Eton College After one of the UK’s most prestigious schools Eton College sent its pupils home due to the coronavirus outbreak, a few days later it opened its doors again to hundreds of local children of key workers in the front line of the battle against the coronavirus. The children aged 5-13 can attend the...
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...
Crewe Alexandra FC It was a long return drive up to Alexandra Stadium in Crewe to photograph the FA CUP 3rd Round match between Crewe Alexandra FC – Barnsley F.C. (Result 1-3) It may have been a long trip but it was a fun assignment for Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The reason for going there...
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. An image was also published by...
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:...
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.
Finsbury Park Terror Attack Following the van attack outside a mosque and on assignment for Dagens Nyheter
Grenfell Tower Fire The terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower. On assignment for Dagens Nyheter in the early hours after the fire began we met with local residents who told their harrowing stories and we also met with members of the community that immediately came together in providing help and support for the victims families and...
General Election 2017 Emma Dent Coad The results of the General Election gave Kensington a Labour MP in a Conservative stronghold. Emma Dent Coad’s win came after three recounts and with a majority of just 20 votes over former Conservative deputy London Mayor Victoria Borwick. On assignment for Dagens Nyheter We met a happy, yet...
General Election 2017 – Canterbury Votes Labour An assignment for Dagens Nyheter in Canterbury where Labour won the seat held by the Tories for 100 years. Rosie Duffield (Lab) 25,572 Sir Julian Brazier (Con) 25,385. The last time the Tories lost the seat was to Whig politician John Baker, who took it for the second...
General Election 2017 – Conservatives An assignment for Dagens Nyheter to follow the Conservative campaign in Ilford North, London just 2 days before the General Election. We met with returning Tory candidate Lee Scott and the campaign staff and we followed a team door knocking in Ilford.
General Election 2017 – Labour Campaign This was an interesting assignment for Dagens Nyheter that took us to Saltburn-by-the Sea, Guisborough and York. In York Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech at the Innovation Centre where there was a lot of interest to meet him and not everyone could get into the full venue and had...
London Bridge Terror Attack Images from an assignment for Dagens Nyheter to cover the London Bridge terror attack. Images are from the evacuation of people in Borough Market, from interviews with people the following morning and from the vigil to remember the victims of the attack at Potters Field Park, in central London.
General Election 2017 Young Voters An interesting assignment for Dagens Nyheter to interview young voters under the age of 30 in the run up to the General Election on June 8th. The interviewees were photographed in Eton, Bristol & Wootton Bassett.
Glyndebourne Festival This was a nice assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the atmosphere of one of the world’s oldest and most celebrated opera festivals, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex. The festival has been held annually since 1934, picnics are laid out in the...
Manchester Terror Attack The day after the Manchester Arena attack Mancunians came together showing love and support for one another. One couple gave out free hugs to strangers and when hugged were given a card that read “You are loved”.
Julian Assange Ecuadorian Embassy Julian Assange speaks to the waiting world’s media at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after Swedish authorities dropped a probe into sexual assault allegations against him. Julian Assange’s cat | November 2016 Julian Assange 1 year anniversary | June 2013 Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy | August 2012
Second Scottish Independence Referendum An assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter, together with journalist Erik de la Reguera we visited Kingussie in the week before the Scottish Parliament Holyrood were to vote on SNP’S Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for a second Scottish Independence Referendum. Kingussie is a small town in the Scottish Highlands, it lies beside the...
Northern Ireland Assembly Election A recent trip to Belfast in the run up to the Northern Ireland Assembly Election to photograph the former Lord Mayor of Belfast Nichola Mallon who has been chosen as the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) North Belfast candidate – and students at the Ulster University Belfast.
Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election A reportage for Dagens Nyheter about the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election 2 days before the polling day. We followed one of the many canvassing teams from UKIP out door knocking and we attended a Labour meeting held by Gareth Snell who was supported by the visiting John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Donald Trump protest Parliament Square An assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter. During the afternoon people supporting One Day Without Us: National Day of Action – a day celebrating the contribution of migrants in the UK – began gathering in Westminster. As MPs debated a 1.85m-strong petition against Trump’s planned June visit thousands of protesters gathered...
HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden On assignment for TT Nyhetsbyrån I photographed Princess Madeleine of Sweden at the Southbank Centre’s Imagine Children’s Festival. She attend the opening of Room for Children, a library filled with children’s books from the Nordic countries.
Mobile Phone Roaming Charges More often than not it is the simple editorial assignments that turn out to be the most challenging – such as last week when Helsingin Sanomat needed to quickly file a story with the news that Europe will finally abolish mobile phone roaming charges this June. The challenge was to find...
Supreme Court Ruling Many people took the opportunity to demonstrate outside the Supreme Court yesterday as they waited to hear the Supreme Courts ruling on whether the government can start the Brexit process. The Government’s lead counsel, the Attorney General Jeremy Wright told the waiting worlds press that the UK government was disappointed but will...
Editorial Portraits A couple of recent assignments for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. I really enjoy taking editorial portraits, they are always a challenge as often the time allowed is very limited – the nicest thing being the variety of people that you meet. The first portrait was that of Professor Nick Bostrom taken at...
Financial jobs in The City of London For Dagens Nyheter I was recently assigned to take the portraits of Kerstin Mathias, Head of social policy at the The City UK – who are a membership body, lobbying on the industry’s behalf, producing evidence of its importance to the wider national economy. The interview was about the possibility...
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.
Julian Assange Embassy Cat On a assignment for Sweden’s largest News Agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) I was at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to cover the arrival of Swedish assistant prosecutor Ingrid Isgren to interview Julian Assange. A bemused Embassy cat (said to be a present to Assange from his children and called James)...
University of Oxford Despite warnings that UK universities would be harmed by Brexit the University of Oxford has been ranked the best university in the world, the first time an institution from the UK has taken the accolade. For Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat we travelled to Oxford to meet some of the students who talked...
Editorial Photographer London Very pleasing to see that in the past month Sweden’s largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter has featured my images on 3 first page covers & 2 covers on the culture section.
Jeremy Corbyn Labour Leadership More than 500 people turned up to see Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Barnsley, his 46th election rally on his Labour Leadership campaign trail. The rally was held in the Miners Hall next door to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) headquarters, the walls were adorned with old NUM banners. Jeremy...
Brexit Threatens Students On the eve of the 7th European Summit in Bratislava (the first EU summit without a UK Prime Minister) Swedish Dagens Nyheter chose to do a story about how Brexit is effecting students in the UK. The choice fell to travelling to Sheffield & Barnsley to do an assignment which involved students...
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station For the first time in 20 years the UK gives the Green light for a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C. The multi-billion dollar construction is controversial and takes place only after French company EDF gives assurances that its Chinese partners would not get control over the British...
Swedes in London post Brexit This was an interesting assignment for the Swedish magazine Karriär that wanted to find out how Swedes & Brits working in Swedish businesses based in London felt about Brexit and how it will effect them and their thoughts about the future post Brexit. There are around 1,200 companies in the...
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...
Angela Gui Portraits of Angela Gui daughter of missing Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai, assignment for Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter. Update: In the Culture section of today’s (30/08/2016) Dagens Nyheter Angela Gui in her own words (in Swedish) asks that her father should not be forgotten.
Owen Smith Labour MP Owen Smith in London on his campaign trail challenging Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership. Owen Smith the MP for Pontypridd in Wales resigned as shadow work and pension secretary from Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet in the wake of the Brexit victory. The winning candidate will be announced on Saturday 24 September...
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...
EU Referendum Clacton-on-Sea & Tooting London This was an interesting assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter about how England is geographically split in its opinions on the forth coming EU Referendum – with just 1 week to go. Firstly we travelled to Clacton-on-Sea the only constituency represented by a Ukip MP and where Euroscepticism is at...
EU Referendum This assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter was to take the opinions of Swedish Students living and studying in London and how a possible Brexit would effect them. It is estimated that 90,000 Swedes live, study & work in the UK. These images were taken in Whitechapel, East London and I needed to give...
Brexit UK immigration A story for Helsingin Sanomat about the opinions and thoughts of other citizens living & working in London and their thoughts about the up and coming EU Referendum and the implications of a possible Brexit. I was quite pleased with the result of the image, rather than meet and photograph individuals this...
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale visiting a nursery school in Glasgow. Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon with supporters at a cafe in Portobello, Edinburgh. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davids on board the tourist attraction the Sir Walter Scott Steamship in Loch Katrine. Scottish Parliament Elections 2016 This was an interesting 4...
Leicester City Football Club Leicester City FC are poised to win the Premier League with just 2 matches left to play. For Dagens Nyheter we travelled up to Leicester to do a story about Leicester fans who were very close to celebrating their astonishing first Premiership title – a draw away to Manchester United put the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Björn Wahlroos Portraits of Björn Wahlroos taken on assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. It was a suntanned, debonair Björn Wahlroos that greeted us in his suite at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair. The interview by London correspondent Annamari Sipilä was in part about the release of Björn’s new book “Talouden kymmenen tuhoisinta ajatusta” roughly translated as...
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...
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,...
Niklas Zennstrom It was interesting to have met and photographed Niklas Zennström for business magazine Affärsvärlden. The interview & photo shoot was held in the boardroom of the investment company Atomico on New Bond Street where Niklas runs both Atomico and the charity organisation Zennström Philanthropies. From being recognised by Time Magazine as one of...
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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.
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...
London Event Photographer It was fun to have recently been behind the scenes on the day of the European Premiere of Michael Jackson’s THE IMMORTAL World Tour by Cirque du Soleil. I was part of quite a large press gathering that had access to meet the artists and performers just a couple oh hours before the...
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...
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...
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...
