My Heroes

Photographers and Agents alike are always asking me to recommend suppliers. So I thought it was about time I shared a few of the great on here.
In this, the second of these posts, I bring you the incredible make-up stylings of Miss Aly Hazlewood.

I am ridiculously in awe of Aly's make-up skills & portfolio. Last year I had some shoots coming up with Jonathan Knowles, we were looking for a new artist to work with and spotted Aly's work in a stylists folio.

It was this shot (right) that had us itching to work with her. That colour and blending work is stunning, and so hard to do.




The shots that Jonathan & Aly worked on are to the left.

I hope to work with her a lot in the future, because Aly is the sort of supplier that I love, she brings her own creativity to the table too. And it's great. Invaluable really.


Have a look at Aly's website here <==
or Tweet her here <==

Thoughts For Photographers

There was a shout out on Twitter this week along the lines of "what do I do when a client isn't paying?"

My first port of call, after the polite asking stage, is to let the client know you're going to have to follow the Late Payment Legislation. It's an incredibly helpful tool that calculates a per day percentage penalty charge on monies owed.

To be honest most late payers will cough up the cash just with the mention of this, after all who wants the bottom line to go up after you've wrapped?

Creative thinking with Brand Perfect

There's me in the purple jumper

Last year I had the pleasure to lend Brand Perfect my creative brain for a few of their events.

If you've not heard of Brand Perfect, well they're a kind of wonderful creative think tank of an organisation. They work with organisations and individuals, looking at how brands are developing, how they could be developing and offer thoughts and magic creative solutions across sectors.
Currently they're braving the weather in NYC and running an Adventures in Publishing event.

Wish I was there really. Especially if it's anything like the event we had at the British Library, where 20 folks, including myself, were called upon to ponder a challenge set to us by BL; "how to get the library's 'Silent Network' to engage with each other."

It was great to be workshopping ideas alongside Creative Directors, Typographers, App Developers and the like. Throughly inspiring and energising really. And I think we came up with some great ideas.
Now it's over to the BL to pick them up.

You can read what the British Library thought of us here <= and what Brand Perfect thought here <=

O'Neil Awards 2012 - Pt1

Lossiemouth, Scotland. 2011 by Marc Wilson

Last Thursday night I went along to the O'Neil awards.
There's a great selection of work on show this year and it was fantastic to see Marc Wilson's The Last Stand scooping up third prize.

If you're not familiar with the project, in written description it's a documentary landscape series of the 'physical remnants of war in the 20th Century in the UK and Northern Europe'.
But in print, on a wall, it is a stunningly eerie, softly lit set of landscape art.

It leads your mind towards Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy.

Studland bay, Dorset. England. 2011 by Marc Wilson

I was also thrilled to see some work from Wendy Sacks. Which literally took my breath away. But more on that in the next post.

An added highlight of the night was the delivery of the winners names. Due to the poor sound system we all got a chance to announce them in a wonderfully complicated game of chinese whispers over two floors. Made us all giggle :)

Back to School!

So the 'Out of Office' Has been switched off and I am back to acknowledging my emails. About time reallyI suppose, but boy will I miss all that sleeping.

There are lots of exciting things lined up this year so keep an eye on here.

In the meantime treat yourself to a look at the work of Annabelle Nicoll, someone I'm thrilled to be working with this year.

The Twelfth Day / Me and I. By Annabelle Nicoll