Having met Laura Lane at The Contemporary Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey earlier this year – her distinctive granite look ceramics caught my eye straight away – I was looking forward to meeting up at her studio and finding out where her creativity comes from. In this feature, published in Cornwall Life magazine I find out – you can read the whole feature online here.
Editing monthly regional lifestyle title, One Magazine has been especially enjoyable this month. Highlights have included talking to Exeter’s most loved chef, Michael Caines and reviewing the heavenly Magdalen Chapter Spa – both below.
British photographer Peter Marlow has worked for Magnum for the past 30 years yet has an approach that is unchanged. Marlow started his career as an international photojournalist but returned to Britain and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he has taken it back on the road: he now photographs as much in Japan, the USA, and elsewhere in Europe as he does in the UK.
Despite these broad horizons and the array of sights Marlow has seen to capture, his own home life is something he is still intent on shooting. In this interview with Peter I find out more about capturing those intimate, family highs and lows…
Abandoned prisons, off-limits MOD sites and deep underground: I was fortunate enough to talk to Matt Emmett of Forgotten Heritage Photography about his unique brand of photography. Read the interview here.
My latest interview, published as part of my biweekly series for Autographer sees me interview inspirational street photographer Heather Buckley, who, despite the twist in genre has just been crowned Royal Horticultural Society Photographer of the Year 2014. Read it here – she gives some great street photography tips.
Feb 2014 sees me embark on a new bi-weekly photographic series for Autographer. My first instalment is an interview with photojournalist Lee Thompson, who was at the Winter Olympics in Sochi when I spoke to him. In this eye-opening interview Lee tells me about photographing the body of Colonel Gaddafi in a supermarket fridge, having his life threatened and feelings of guilt. He also gives some excellent tips for street photography. Read it here.
Last month I had the pleasure of heading to Barrow Gurney in Somerset to meet furniture designer Tom Rowan and interview him for Somerset Life magazine. Tom’s work will blow you away: inspired by passions, memories and dreams and fuelled by a passion for speed and movement, his furniture bridges that important gap between art and function. Take a look a my feature below, see Tom’s website here and Somerset Life’s website here.
Last month I took on an exciting new client: Somerset Life Magazine. My first feature for the glossy regional title sees me interview Tim Everett from Everett Fine Art, who specialise in the restoration of oil paintings, and have done for more than fifty years, which has seen the company undertake an extraordinary variety and complexity of work. Take a look below.
In the first instalment of Hungry Eye Magazine‘s new ‘Hot Shot’ section, I speak to press photographer Brad Wakefield, who recently won the Newscast Young Photography of the Year award at the 2012 Picture Editor Guild Awards. Click on the images below for a bigger version.
I’m so happy to have double Brit Award nominee, Paloma Faith, gracing the cover of 247 Magazine and can’t wait to see her live at Plymouth Pavilions later this month.
Read what the singer / songwriter had to say on her new album, personal lyrics and being a feminist inside the February issue, which you can read here. Of course we’ve got lots of homegrown talent from the South West of England crammed into the issue too – this month we introduce you to Panda, Plymouth based DJs with an Infectious nu-garage sound and Audible 1, aka Alex Norgate, who has a unique take on drum and bass. This month’s fashion pages also have a distinctive local flavor too, as all the clothes are designed and modeled by the South West’s Alice Vandy. We get our action sport fix from Somerset – in the form of fearless street rider, Sam Baskett, who can clear truly amazing gaps on his BMX. Enjoy these features, plus all our regular features including music reviews, food, club and gig listings. This month we also expand our distribution to include Bristol within the South West edition – exciting times!
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