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!

Dance Show NEC

Those nice people (Helena) at Haymarket publishing let me show my Still Dancing exhibition last weekend at The Dance Show (part of Clothes Show). I was there for 3 days and shot the event as well as getting my shots out there. Met some great people and some dancers and dance companies will be shooting with me in 2011. By the way.2 VERY famous people I missed from my list were Terry Waite and John McCarthy...how could I forget them!!! My mind was on the showbiz and music World.

The dance pic here is of Nemesis who were great!

Famous People

I often get asked if I have photographed anyone famous..well yes I have.

You may or may not have heard of them..sometimes it is a direct commission..or

it is a part of another project. No doubt in the mists of time I will have missed loads

of people from this far from exhaustive list but here goes....

Music; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, previously with Simon Rattle and currently with Andris Nelsons (see b/w photo) Feeder, Blur, John Peel, Tony Iommi (for Peavey and Gibson) Lemar, Rod Stewart,

Rick Wakeman, Buzzcocks, Wire, U2, The Beat. Nick Cave, The Move (Trevor Burton,

Bev Bevan) plus many many more bands and singers. Theatre/TV ;Colin Buchanan,

Gok Wan, Suzi Perry + Gadget Show. Art ; Temper, Willard Wigan. Sport; Rory Underwood, David Lloyd. David Beckham (+ team with Sven) Royalty ; Princess Anne, Prince Philip

and Prince Edward on seperate occasions.

I will have missed many but I'll add them as I remember!