UK Chamber of Shipping Annual Dinner 2017 We were delighted to have been asked for the fourth year in a row to photograph the Annual Dinner for the UK Chamber of Shipping that was held at the London Hilton Park Lane. We photographed the guests arrival at President’s Dr. Grahaeme Henderson’s reception and the speeches...
Words to Deeds Conference 2017 We were delighted to have been chosen to photograph the inaugural Words to Deeds conference (for legal translators) that was held in the wonderful venue The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn – one of the four Inns of Court which have the exclusive right to call men and women to...
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...
Corporate Headshots Paddington Our client BDQ required some headshots & portraits of their team and wished for some images that they could use with their public relations & presentations. Rather than have headshot images taken against a standard white background they wished for more approachable informal images taken in a street environment. Following a consultation...
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...
Event Photography Mayfair Our team photographer Graham covered the recent conference & signing ceremony for the British Council at the Egyptian Ambassador’s residence in Mayfair. Ten new partnerships were signed between UK and Egyptian universities as part of the UK and Egypt Partners in Education week with the senior education delegation currently visiting the UK....
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.
Corporate Headshots London We have just produced a short film showing how we photograph corporate headshots in London. The photo shoot is timed to fit in with our clients busy schedule and with the minimum disruption the photographs are taken conveniently on location at their London offices using our professional mobile studio. All the final...
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)...
Corporate Portrait Photographer London We are showing a recent commission for our Portraits for Professionals Package. Our client required a set of images that he could use across his social media, PR and for publications. Following a chat regarding his requirements the choice fell to doing the photo shoot in Shoreditch as the small streets...
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...
Corporate Headshots Mayfair London We have been busy in completing the post production and sending to 4 of our London clients their new corporate headshots. The above image shows some of the headshot images for our client iCON Infrastructure, we photographed 30 people at their offices in Mayfair. We received a wonderful testimonial: My...
Corporate Group Photography We have just updated our corporate group photography gallery where we are showing examples of how we can photograph your group images. These group photo’s can be taken at the same time as we take your corporate headshots or at your corporate event.
Corporate Awards Photography We photographed the inaugural Bluebird Care Awards ceremony for Bluebird Care. The ceremony took place at the historic Fortnum and Mason on Piccadilly in London where a special afternoon tea was served for all their guests and their regional winners and franchise owners. The awards ceremony recognised the outstanding contribution that carers,...
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...
Responsive Website We have been busy behind the scenes these past couple of months and we are really pleased to launch our new responsive website today. Our new website is viewable on all platforms and devices and you will see a custom layout according to the device that you are using be it a tablet,...
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...
Bob Geldof It was nice to have met and photographed Bob Geldof on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. The Society’s prestigious medals and awards recognise extraordinary achievement in geographical research and the promotion of geography, science and discovery, Bob Geldof KBE received this year’s Patron’s Medal for raising global public awareness and challenging the...
Nick Leeson Our client LexisNexis had invited Rogue Trader Nick Leeson to a breakfast briefing. It was very interesting to hear his talk about the events that led up to and after his fraudulent, unauthorised speculative trading which caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom’s oldest merchant bank, for which he was...
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...
Corporate Award Ceremonies We recently photographed the Domestic & General 2016 Retailer of the Year Awards, celebrating the UK’s best electrical retailers according to consumers. In the UK’s biggest consumer survey of independent electrical retailers, over 250,000 customers are surveyed following a major electrical purchase such as a TV or washing machine. Now in its...
Britain Stronger In Europe Campaign Britain Stronger In Europe the main organisation campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union took their new campaign bus to London and the Queen Mary University. Jo Johnson Conservative MP for Orpington & Chuka Umunna Labour MP for Streatham climbed out of the bus and met with young Britain...
Walking For Health As part of a larger story about UK health issues and making lifestyle choices to combat health problems we joined the Hammersmith group of Walking for Health and walked part of the Thames Path with them. Walking for Health is England’s largest network of health walks with over 400 active schemes, helping...
Carnegie Library As part of a larger story about library closures around Europe we visited Carnegie Library in Lambeth where campaigners for the Defend the 10 group had been occupying Carnegie Library since the 31st of March on the day it was closed by Lambeth Council for re-development. The 10 day occupation ended on Saturday...
Corporate Composite Portraits We recently photographed the directors, producers & management for talkSPORT the world’s largest sports radio station. They required new images for their press releases, marketing & PR, the brief was to photograph and deliver the portraits with a neutral white background and with some staff also to be photographed in a recording...
Grassroots Out (GO) Campaign A visit for Helsingin Sanomat with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to a Grassroots Out (GO) campaign meeting held in Purfleet, Essex. Grassroots Out, or GO for short, is made up of politicians and supporters from across the political spectrum and is in favour of EU withdrawal in the forthcoming EU...