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...
