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19.12.16
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Talk at VCCP
 
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I was asked to join a discussion at VCCP with photographers Tim Flach and Mark Leary. We're all Canon users and their creatives wanted to get the low down on how we use the equipment as they've just won the account. Hope it was all useful for them.
28.11.16
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Creative Review
 
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Liking this shot that my agents chose for their Creative review advert. It's cropped which isn't something I usually do but I think it works to great affect.
14.10.16
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AOP Awards
 
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Went to the AOP Awards last night at the Truman Brewery in Shoreditch. Good crowd and pleased to see my selected entry in the Personal Portrait section.
10.10.16
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Creative Review/Shelter Article
 
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It's the 50th anniversary of the forming of Shelter, the housing charity. It's a charity I've had a close working relationship with for several years. To mark the event Creative Review have done an in depth review of some of their great campaign work and included examples of my recent work with them. The article was written by Mark Sinclair who also interviewed me.
05.09.16
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Battle face Article
 
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The BattleFace blog asked me about the perils of traveling to what are sometimes considered dangerous locations around the world. My basic take on it is to keep things low key, don't turn up with a big crew and look threatening and keep smiling.
02.09.16
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Slate Article
 
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Did another interview about my 1991-1994 project in Donetsk, Ukraine. It was for the current affairs magazine 'Slate' and focused on what life was like at the end of the USSR.
25.08.16
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Marie Curie Shoot
 
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Those lovely people at Marie Curie asked if I would shoot a new campaign for them. Shot on a shoe string with the help of Locate Productions & Stephen Ambrose assisting we pulled it off over a couple of days.
22.08.16
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Huck Magazine
 
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With the 25th anniversary of Ukraine's declaration of independence after the collapse of the USSR, HUCK magazine did an interview with me about the contrasts between the country from my first visit in 1991 to the protests in 2014.
01.08.16
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Selected for Le Book 2016
 
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My agent WyattClarke and Jones put my Havana Club campaign which ran last year forward for this months LeBook newsletter. I'm pleased to say it was selected. The work was shot with Creative Director Grant Parker for M&C Saatchi London.
22.07.16
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Talk at Curious
 
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Went into Curious today to give a talk about the development of my approach to photography. I've been working with Gary Smith, partner and Creative Director, for several years on many different projects. Curious designed my book on Shanghai 'Lovin' It'.
05.07.16
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Bodyform wins Cannes Gold
 
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The Bodyform campaign I worked on has just been awarded a Gold at Cannes. Great team to work with who came up with a powerful concept and kept to it.
17.06.16
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L'Oeil de la Photographie Article
 
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The interview i did for YouPic is in this months L'Oeil de la Photographie.
15.06.16
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Bodyform
 
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The Bodyform campaign I shot for AMV wis getting a lot of attention in the media. Here's a selection.
10.06.16
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Campaign 'Pick of the Week'
 
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The Bodyform campaign I shot in Romania has got 'Pick of the Week' in Campaign.
08.06.16
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Royal Palaces BTS
 
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The Corner posted behind the scenes from the shoot we did yesterday. That's me sitting down on the job as always. Piers Okelly on my left was Art Directing whilst Steve Ambrose on my right was assisting (in reality doing most of the work!)
07.06.16
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First Tuesday
 
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Did a talk for First Tuesday at PrintSpace. First time I'd showed my new Archive page with my first project in Donetsk. It all really well received and a pleasure to do.
02.06.16
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Guardian - My Best Shot
 
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Was asked by The Guardian to select one of my recent favourite images for the 'My Best Shot' column. I picked one for the recent protests in Ukraine and was interviewed by the very knowledgable Laura Snood for the piece.
24.05.16
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Libresse
 
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Did a shoot over in Romania for Libresse back in October last year. On the back of TV and had lots of opportunities to get different takes on the campaign theme. Great creative and production team to work with. Thanks to all
12.05.16
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Guardian Article
 
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The Guardian have run a big piece on my long-term project about life in our growing urban slums. It's a project I spent over 8 years working on and it's to show how people cope with life in such conditions
22.04.16
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Myanmar Boxing
 
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Another sport I covered on my recent trip to Myanmar was a local from of kick boxing called Lethwei. I asked my fixer to find me a good local gym in Yangon. There we found around half a dozen boys and young men engaging in one of the toughest work outs I've ever witnessed. Punch bags weren't hard enough so the trainer had a frame built to hold truck tyres to that the boys would have to kick and punch.
Moe, my fixer, had managed to get me a ringside pass to a Myanmar-Japan tournament that weekend. As a great coincidence one of the boys was fighting in it and I was able to follow him into the ring.
It was the most brutal fighting I've ever seen that's actually legal!
Myanmar won all of the fights. I don't think the Japanese visitors knew what had hit them!
15.04.16
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The Modern Game
 
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The lovely people at the blog the Modern Game have put together a collection of some of my football images. I first heard of it when a friend sent me a link. You can see the work on the link below.
02.03.16
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Creative Circle Best Photography Nomination
 
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The Cancer Research campaign I worked on a couple of months ago has just been nominated in the Creative Circle awards for Best Photography for Outdoor Craft campaign. Keeping my fingers crossed for an award.
16.02.16
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Myanmar
 
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Just got back from a personal project in Myanmar. I haven't had the time to spend on personal work for a while so it was good to get away and just take pictures. I focused on two local sports. One is called Sepak takraw and is like volleyball except you can only use your feet. it's very acrobatic.
The other sport was Letwei which is a form of kickboxing but very violent. Here's a couple of shoots, the rest to follow soon.
15.02.16
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YouPic interview
 
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The interview I did for YouPic has just gone live. Chris has sent me some stats and I'm surprised by the interest after just 48 hours:
1,300,000 visits to my home page
24,000 viewing of the film
30,000 viewings of the Facebook trailer.
Please check it out yourself via the link.
29.01.16
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Cancer Research in the Guardian
 
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The Cancer Researcher campaign I shot last month was featured in the Guardian. They talk about the power of using the documentary approach to produce hard hitting work.
04.01.16
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Cancer Research UK
 
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I spent four days documenting people being treated for cancer at St James's Hospital, Leeds. The shoot was for the 2016 Cancer Research UK campaign and involved me working in a pure documentary way and recording the work of the very dedicated teams in the hospitals various cancer units. I was given free access to all areas and where appropriate attended consultations, treatment and some of the lighter moments in what can be an emotionally intense environment.
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