Recent work - December 2021

Here’s a mixed selection of photos from the past few months. I’m forced to stretch the word ‘recent’ again, in this case because 2021 was only eleven weeks long:

This was one of the first shoots I used my new Canon R6, which is a no-excuses piece of equipment. However, it’s not perfect: it stalled twice on this shoot. Apparently a known issue (except to me at the time), it caused no small amount of unprofessional flappery at the time, forcing me to use my backup 5d Mk3. Like riding someone else’s bike, it suddenly felt alien, weird and jarring, and got in the way of everything.

This was for mpb, who buy and sell camera equipment (I use them).

I went to Gail’s bakery to photograph milk supplied by Brades Farm where the cows are fed Mootral, a natural food supplement which reduces methane emissions by 30%.

National Theatre’s Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time opened at the Troubadour Theatre, Wembley. To illustrate this, we shot the scene where Christopher arrives in London, bewildered and unsure. We’ve shot this in recent years at Paddington and at Piccadilly Circus. This time, Toby the rat is played by Biscoff (it may have been his co-star, Oreo, in the photo: I found it hard to tell them apart).

Prevayl

I don’t do many events, and even fewer at the moment. But I thought it worth posting photos from an athlete / influencer event run by sportswear brand Prevayl which took place at fitness studio 1Rebel. Prevayl’s ‘intelligent clothing’ contains a sensor which records performance and health stats, sending it to its app. Attendees did an intense workout wearing the gear, and then reviewed the data afterwards.

This was one of the darkest places I’ve ever worked in - off the top of my head second only to the London Film Museum, which was literally pitch black but for the screens. What light was available was relatively low, unpredictable, in different places; and kept turning on and off, while changing colour. The ceiling and walls were black, and I couldn’t put lights safely anywhere except in a corner (because bodybuilders). Excuses aside:

The day the hairdressers opened

That’s my best effort for a catchier title than ‘Corporate Portraits’, which wouldn’t have brought you here. But then, this is an entire gallery dedicated to recent office photography. With subject matter like this, it’s plain wrong to tantalise anyone with even the most slight clickbait-y title.

So why would I do such a thing - and at Christmas? Well, since nobody had had a portrait for over a year, and with so many staff changes on top, it was inevitable it would occupy a lot of my work (98.8% to be precise) once restrictions were lifted. So while I’d not normally post so many pictures of people in suits, it makes sense to share them as I’ve been doing so much of this kind of work. So, “Sorry, not sorry,” as they say: