These are some stills from the short film I was director of photography on. As you can see, it was a rather charming romantic comedy.

An image from a shoot i did recently of a band. Its a proper pea souper guv'nor!

Holga shots

My first test shots with my new plastic Holga camera. The rather A-level style multiple exposure idea was actually Gareth's, a professional photographers assistant who should know better. The results actually look quite good though, the first one makes my workmate Marco look like a hideous prowling owl creature. Because of this I have decided the camera allows me to take pictures of my sitters 'true soul'.

Otto!

a couple of shots i did as a test for a possible project I might start. While it might look like it at the moment, the project isnt just 'tape a flash light to your head'!

Two random images I havent really shown before.

These are a couple of shots I took when i sneaked into an abandoned building by the Thames. While I was shooting, a bloke in a digger drove up next to the entrance of the building, and started digging up some stuff. I was shitting myself, and hid for a bit by a window watching. I must have been really still, because after a couple of minutes a big fat rat started running across the floor towards me. I had to move about as best I could to scare it off. I then had visions of the workman outside shutting and locking the door of the building i was in, and being trapped with nothing to eat but rats. So I ran out of the building like a big coward.

Michael Cligg(s)

Michael is one of my bezzy mates, and is in a lot of my photographs. This is mainly due to him being a 'yes' man. Not the snivveling little sycophantic type of 'yes' man, like the pigs from The Racoons, but the type of person who will often agree to be in a photograph regardless of what weird shit i ask of him.

'Throw around an inflatable sit ups ball around on Leek Wooten golf course?
"Lie half naked by the side of the road in a christ like position?
"Sit on the floor of a disused crack den?
"wade bare foot through a stream on a winters day knowing full well I have circulation problems?
"yes to all!"

I couldnt have done half of the photos I have without his help. Heres two I havent shown before. For some reason I always portray him as some kind of persecuted christ figure. Which would probably make me the Romans.

Early Nineties themed shoot

A portrait shoot with actress Kim Wintle. Nicole did the styling brilliantly. Our influences were Party of Five, Smash Hits magazine, Nerds (the sweets that took the skin of the top of your mouth, and were banned because packs were found with glass shards in), Alf, and Inxs.










I was a right little twit in the early nineties, I remember going to the Squash club for lessons (already a terrible middle class atrocity) purposefully dressed as the Fonz, wearing one of my grandads old leather jackets, with a white t-shirt underneath. In my head I looked like a young James Dean. In reality I probably looked more like a sickly, Shakin Stevens obsessed Macauly Culkin.

I was also obsessed by Arcade video games, usually the type that had large plastic guns strapped to the front. I went on a sailing holiday in scotland with my parents, and wished every single moment of the holiday away, dying to reach the next mooring point in the vain hope there might be a machine in the rec room of whatever delapidated Sailing club we landed at. Beautiful rolling vistas? The thrill of the wind in your hair as you streak across the open waters? No way! Give me the chance to gaze at 'Operation Wolf', wishing I had the money to play it, any day!