Life of Sundays

I first fell in love with film photography well over a decade ago and despite the digital camera revolution I find myself unable to change for the same very reasons I fell in love with film in the first place: the cinematic texture, rich grain, deep tones, warm light and above all its physical sense of authenticity, character, soul and presence. In recent years I have worked in close collaboration with clients to creatively utilise these characteristics to meet their specific requirements including portraiture and documenting fashion, film, art, music and weddings. With both a strong understanding of different types of film and experience with a wide collection of cameras (including vintage and Lomo) I am able to provide images in a variety of different formats to suit any situation including black & white (hand developed if required), colour (both negative and slide film), cross-processing and Polaroid.

To find out more about myself, my experience, equipment, personal photography, etc check the About section. My published photography is detailed in the Published section. For examples of both my current and previous commissioned work please select from the portfolio highlights below:

Becky and Michael’s Wedding

Client:: Becky and Michael

Recently I spent a beautiful sunny day over in Bournemouth and Christchurch photographing the lovely Becky and Michael for their wedding. The day was very relaxed and informal with the ceremony at the town hall, photos in the park and then photos at the stunning Christchurch Harbour in the afternoon.

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Yoshi: One Man Party

Client:: Yoshi! & The One Eyed Dog

The second evening of event photography for The One Eyed Dog was for the Yoshi! night featuring Steve Slingeneyer from Soulwax (also known as One Man Party). As well as the portraits and DJ photos I spent some time experimenting with long exposures with multiple flash bursts.

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Brknk: ShyFX

Client:: The One Eyed Dog & Brknk

As part of a new commission from The One Eyed Dog pub and venue in Southsea I photographed their Brknk event featuring DJ ShyFX. It was initially difficult working with a manual focus in such low light but it wasn’t too long until I was comfortable taking portraits and also some long exposures with flash.

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Matt & Lynda’s Wedding

Client:: Matt & Lynda

I was honoured to be asked to photograph Matt & Lynda’s wedding in Portsmouth, where they specifically wanted to have film photography, including black & white. Despite the gloomy weather it was a very happy and relaxed day from the early ceremony all the way through to the late evening’s dancing.

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Compulsive Sunset

Client:: Compulsive Productions

As part of my Compulsive Productions commission I had to provide images for their new business cards so Dan from Compulsive and I went down to Southsea seafront with one of their video cameras and luckily caught the sunset. With only a matter of minutes before the sun dropped below the horizon I managed to capture a roll of film of images, with one of them being selected for the final card image.

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Ben & Laura’s Wedding

Client:: Ben & Laura

As my good friends Ben & Laura’s wedding gift I took some B&W film photos at their wedding ceremony and reception in Suffolk. Although not the official photographer I tried to capture some of the less formal moments during the day.

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ContactPoint – Emma’s Story

Client:: Complusive Productions

Continuing my work with Compulsive Productions, I was on hand to photograph the premiere and awards ceremony in Worthing for Emma’s Story, a short film created by, staring and directed by young people from a collection of youth projects on the south coast.

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Copnor School Premieres

Client:: Compulsive Productions

As part of my continuing commission for Compulsive Productions I recorded their recent Copnor Junior school short films premiere at the No. 3 cinema. Compulsive had helped six groups of school children to script, perform, film and edit short films in a variety of genres and then arranged the premiere night for the children and their parents, I was on hand to document the evening.

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‘Teenager’ Film

Client:: Compulsive Productions

As part of a wide ranging commission for Compulsive Productions (a community film production company) I was to photograph a location film shoot for the short film ‘Teenager’. The film was scripted, crewed and acted by teenagers with the help of Compulsive and told the story of a teenager’s struggle with alcohol, drug abuse and peer pressure. My role with the production was to take film stills and to document the cast and crew behind the scenes.

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Antique Fashion

Client:: ZoZo Reworked Vintage

ZoZo Reworked Vintage create unique items from reworked vintage garments and fabric and commissioned me to shoot a selection of outfits in a local antique shop and garden. From the start it was clear the client felt that due to the style of garments and the location it was important to have a vintage visual aesthetic with the photography and as such both 35mm film and Polaroids were used. Utilising both natural light and a selection of lenses to suit the different situations it was possible to create the final images with the required sense of age and warmth with rich natural colours, soft light and strong contrast.

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Winter

Client:: +1 Magazine

Recently I was asked by the nationally distributed +1 Magazine to provide suitable images for a portfolio feature article. I had previously completed a collection of photos entitled ‘Winter’ that were formed from a single medium format film with a sequence of continuously overlapping exposures of a group of winter trees. Once the article had been published I received many commissions for prints from this collection.

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The Big Push

Client:: Blueprint Skateboards

Every year a collection of UK skateboarding companies enter in to the Big Push competition to travel across the country and film their team of skateboarders. Once the trip is complete they individually edit a video segment for a DVD that is then cover mounted on an internationally available magazine. Blueprint Skateboards are the UK’s highest profile skateboard company and commissioned me to provide still images for their particular section of the DVD. The Blueprint section featured a lo-fi aesthetic (both visually and with the music – Dinosaur Jr) and the film photography supported that desired theme.

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Paint and Illustrate

Client:: Dist.One

David Dixon, aka Dist.One, is an internationally exhibited artist and illustrator with a huge portfolio of beautiful work and high profile clients. As a photographer himself David knew he wanted film photography as opposed to digital for portraiture stills for various print magazine interviews. With a strong undercurrent of organic physicality, rich colours and dark contrast within his own work the use of film was the most appropriate medium to capture the artist himself.

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Compose at Home

Client:: Once a Super Hero

Mark Harman records music in his home studio under the name Once a Super Hero. As a commission for a selection of promotional photography for print and web I tried to capture the sense of composing music at night in the dark, small studio and also capture Mark’s intense creativity and musicianship.

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