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....
Award Photography at The Brewery London EC1Y 4SA We were delighted for the 5th time to have been assigned to photograph the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023 (WUSCAs) held at The Brewery, London. During the day we had also photographed their Insight Day conference day held at the nearby Barbican. As always this black...
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...
Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Our photographer Natalie recently took the portraits of the celebrated British-Nigerian Artist Yinka Shonibare in his East London studio overlooking Regent’s Canal. Yinka is known to many Londoners for his giant ship-in-a-bottle he created in 2010 for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.He is also known for using African wax...
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...
Portraits On Location Lorraine runs an exclusive Lifestyle Management company and she required new portraits taken for her website and she assigned us for an on location photo shoot and booked our Portraits for Professionals package. The location choice fell for the lovely market town of Amersham in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire. Lorraine offers services...
Portraits On Location Our client, a freelance estate agent required a new set of images of herself for promotional usage and having chatted about the options we provide she chose our on location Portraits for Professionals package. The photoshoot went very well and we used 3 different locations that showed various property types in the...
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...
Office Photography and Headshots We pride ourselves in that we can offer a full corporate photography service to our clients.An example of this is is the photography services we recently provided for the 3rd Generation Family Business of C&H Stedman in Hertfordshire.For their new website that has now been launched they required office photography showing...
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...
Corporate Headshots & Office Photography We were delighted to supply the new headshots & some of the office photography for CIC’s new website.Established in 1895 in the City of London CIC has now had a London presence for 126 years, it is now part of Crédit Mutuel.As more staff are returning to the office we...
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...
Photographer Sari Soininen It was really nice to have met Finnish photographer Sari Soininen on assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. On her website she describes her work as “photography that draws from philosophical thoughts and personal mystical experiences. Her interest is in providing the viewer with alternative ways of seeing the world and reality around them.”...
Sommarvärdar 2021 Zara Larsson Portrait of Swedish artist Zara Larsson an assignment for Swedish Radio. Zara is wearing a traditional floral crown known as a midsommarkrans and is one of 58 speakers on the highly popular ‘Sommar i P1’ radio programme that has been broadcasted every summer in Sweden since 29th June 1959.Each speaker has a...
Author Richard Osman Richard has many titles to his name: comedian, producer, television presenter, writer and more recently best selling author – he is probably best known as the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. These portraits were for taken for an assignment for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with his...
Our client who works with outdoor advertising required some corporate portrait images of himself and his choice of background fell to an advertising display he was involved with – the world famous Piccadilly lights in Piccadilly Circus, London, W1J.
Commercial Photography London A pre-lock down commercial photo shoot for our client Wordshop who provide Sainsbury’s with communications material for their company’s pension schemes including a website, guides & brochures. We had 2 photographers on-location at one of their stores where we converted 1 large room into a mobile studio where we photographed staff in...
Working From Home Headshots Corporate headshots taken at home is the latest Home Corporate Headshots package we launched last August during the first Covid-19 lockdown and it has been a success with companies ordering our Headshot Kits not only within the UK but also from Norway and far away to the USA. Our Home Headshot...
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...