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Chloe Lonsdale for The Telegraph

I photographed Chloe Lonsdale in her West London kitchen for The Telegraph Magazine a little while ago.

Some recent tear sheets

Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster for The Telegraph.

Sophie Grabol and Rona Munro also for The Telegraph.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster are going to be in a new production of Tennesse William's play A Streetcar Named Desire at The Young Vic in London from next week. http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/a-streetcar-named-desire
I photographed Gillan and Ben for The Telegraph.

James Joyce, Tommaso del Buono and Salih Adalier

In April I photographed the artist James Joyce for the online edition of Hole & Corner Magazine at his studio in Shoreditch.
You can find the full article here: www.holeandcornermagazine.com

A few weeks back I also photographed the garden designer Tommaso del Buono at home in London for the Telegraph Magazine's "The World of..." section. The story will be published in this Saturday's edition of the magazine, ahead of the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show, where Tommaso designed this years Telegraph garden.

But for me the most interesting has been making a short portrait film about photographer Salih Adalier together with David San Millán del Río. I have known Salih for a number of years and this January, knowing he was about to sell the building that houses his studio, David and I decided to go back to capture it on film before it was too late.
The film was commissioned by Accent Magazine and Issue 5, featuring our film is now online:
www.accent-magazine.com

Hove portraits

On a commission last week in Hove I took these portraits of people working in and running local businesses. Victorija Marinova works at Lala's Café, CaroleAnn Podes and her dog Misty opened The Restoratin Rooms about a year ago, Julian Pelling has been running his record shop Fine Records for much longer and Dan Morrison is a barman at The Foragers pub.

Richard Deacon for The Telegraph

Sculptor Richard Deacon's retrospective show at Tate Britain opens on February 5th. A couple of weeks ago I photographed him for The Telegraph. You will recognise the setting of this picture from my previous post: Emily and the invisible chair.

Here is a link to the Telegraph article online:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10579803/Richard-Deacon-interview-twisting-chaos-into-shape.html

Emily and the invisible chair

I did a job for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine last week. Here's my assistant for the day, lovely Emily, sitting on thin air.

London's small specialist businesses. A few more and book soon...

Over the last six years have been working on a project about small scale, specalist businesses and their owners in London. Finally this year I will draw the project to a close and publish it as a book. In April I went and photohraphed and talked to a few more people to complete the project. Here is a glimpse of those last additions ... more news on the book soon.

 

Rob Court, neon sign maker, in his shop in Leyton.
http://www.creativeneon.co.uk/

 Carmel Said, set artist, in his studio in Wembley.

Klaus Kalde, black and white photographic printer, in his darkroom in Haggerston.
http://www.klausottokalde.com/

KL Photo Awards

I'm very pleased that my portrait of my friend Paul-Dominic De Grande is a finalist in in this year's Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards. You can view a gallery of all the finalists here.

Contacts

I recently photographed my friend composer Paul-Dominic De Grande. I'm really pleased with the result but the contact sheets also looked great: here they are.

New Portraits - new mailer

I've just finished and sent out #4 of my print mailer. It's also available to download from my website here. The mailer includes new portraits of Eleanor Vonne Brown of X Marks the Bökship shop and project space for small press publishing, the artist Kate Lyddon, the performer Daniel Hernandez and the miliner Gabrielle Djanogly. Thanks Eleanor, Kate, Dan amd Gabrielle! 

Mailers for download

I produce a physical mailer 2 - 3 times a year. You can download the pdf versions of all the previous mailers from my website here.

Thomas Braun

I just came accross this photograph of my father. He came to visit me and we took a one week trip to Cornwall last February; a sort of as a 70th birthday present to him. I took this picture of him on the beach in West Bay near Bridport in Dorset on the way down.

2 weeks ago at the studio

The band Cecille Grey from Nottingham; Aurelie, Phil and Nabeena.

The World in London

Back in 2010 I photographed Serena Viti, an Italian Astronomer working at UCL, for the Photographers' Gallery's "The World in London" project.

The photographers' Gallery invited 204 photographers to make a portrait each of someone who lives in London but originates from one of the 204 nations competing in the 2012 London Olympics. The project forms part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad and is on display outdoors at Victoria Park, E3, until 12. August and at Park House, 453 - 497 Oxford Street until 30. August. There is also a dedicated website: http://www.theworldinlondon.org.uk/, which also features, interviews with the sitters and photographers.

Portraits

I took these portraits a couple of months ago and have only now finally had time to scan them and put them up here.

Sian Evans is a jeweller, a designer, a craftswoman and an academic. I photographed her in her studio with some of her tools, precious objects in themselves.

Daniel Hernandez is an unconventional sort of clown. As Hernandez the clown he develops and performs his own pieces. I photographed him at home in his shared warehouse conversion in North London.

Sian Evans' tools

Today I took a portrait of jewellery designer and maker Sian Evans in her studio. http://www.sejewellery.com/ .She has an amazing amount of odd and beutiful specialist tools. Here is a small selection:

I will post some of the portraits soon.

In Paddington

I was doing some location photography for a commission around Paddington yesterday. Here's my favourite of the day:

Enzo

This is Enzo Scocchia, whom I photographed a while ago originally for a commission for The Photographer' Gallery. Another picture I took will be used in the end.
Enzo is the owner of The Spaghetti House in Tufnel Park, which is alocal favourite of mine.