Bloc Hotel

Bloc is a new build hotel I photographed recently.

It is up in Hockley , Birmingham and this was taken

at dusk and lit to make it look even more beautiful.

It's not always people I shoot...

Shooting George

I get lots of people coming to me for modelling advice and portfolio's.

This is George who I worked with today..a quick folio shoot. He's confident

and good under direction..I wish him all the best for his modelling career..

which started here..today!

Dance Dynamic Magazine

When at The Dance Show I met Chris from Dance Dynamic Magazine.

They very kindly did a 4 page spread on Still Dancing.

Body Paint images

After a few false starts I was finally able to do the body paint shoot

with Abbie that we'd been planning for some time. The artist being Victoria

Howard (eventsartists.com). We'd planned the shots you see here with colours

and textures, however a commissioned shoot came in utilising body painting

which tied in nicely and the theme was a hybrid of a famous Marilyn Monroe

image coupled with the iconic Goldfinger girl from James Bond.

Abbie was a superstar as we did the make up and shoots back to back meaning

she was in make up and shooting for about 5 hours and it became pretty uncomfortable.

Many thanks to graffiti4hire at The Custard Factory for use of their shower..!

New fashion images

Done quite a bit of fashion work recently..the b/w is for Rehmali

and the other 2 shots are for my good friend Sulaimi. We used Gemma to model

who is a dancer and here is a location shot in Jay's wood carving studio..plus

me and the model. She was FROZEN and I am holding a fan heater to warm her hands.

Next post will be bodypainting....

Michael ; Dancer Shoot

All quiet on the blogging front, then two , quite similar posts come at once.

Ok I admit it..as I shoot quite a lot of fashion these days as well as

dance..a lot of my subjects are FEMALE....more by default than design.

So it has been great this week to redress the balance and shoot a couple of guys .

Joel in my last post and here, Michael, a dancer I first worked with in 2006 in the very early

days of my then untitled Still Dancing exhibition.

So yesterday we caught up again and had a fantastic shoot, some of the shots

for your viewing pleasure here.

Body / Boxing shoot with Joel

Today I worked with Joel for the first time..who is a great guy and we worked around a fitness and boxing theme. Many thanks to Frankie at Urban Village for supplying some great vintage boxing kit. We managed a lot in around 3 hrs ..Joel being really easy going and just having a "great look". Enjoy the shots!