Nick Nevern for Lost in the Multiplex

One of my favourite shoots; actor Nick Nevern for Lost in the Multiplex, a fantastic movie-review site. The best part was sitting in on the interview - apart from the fact I'm a big film buff myself, hearing Nick talking about his personal motivations behind this film he directed, wrote, starred in and shot himself really helped with my own motivations for the shoot later; having a sense of him I think was beneficial in knowing how I wanted to capture him.

Fingers crossed for working with the Plex again!

See the interview here at lostinthemultiplex.com.

A couple more final shots -

Oxygen double-bill

Camden, me old china, and two new faces at Oxygen - Jack and Harry. They didn't make each other laugh *too* much!

The Rose without a Thorn

Indulged my girly side (I do have one) with a shoot with the lovely Iona, of Model Division ltd. Special bonus - my best friend acted as MUA, Stylist *and* chief-wind-creator (by means of flapping my reflector up and down). Some really wonderful results.

Titled the editorial 'The Rose Without a Thorn'. Cookies to anyone who can explain that reference for me.

Stuart @ Oxygen

Went back to indie-roots with recent shoot for Oxygen, featuring Stuart. We met miraculously in the labyrinth of Liverpool Station, and quickly headed out to the grimey backstreets of the hipster capital (although maybe with the advent of Dalston, that's not true?), Brick Lane. The rain held off, thankfully, although it did drizzle.

More at flickr

Behind the Scenes clip, INK Homme, March 2011

I've had this clip saved for ages - edited it and put here for anyone's amusement/interest.

Photography - Becky Xue-Ying

Styling - Charlie B

Models - Ryan, Etienne, Adam and Vaslov from Oxygen Model Management

See the issue here

Never work with children or animals...but working with child animals is great!

Having navigated my way to the Bristol Cats and Dogs home (despite my Sat Nav turning into an evil Jekyll/Hyde type persona of itself, and attempting to direct me in any number of illegal driving manoeuvres), I was very excited at the prospect of working with furry creatures for the first time in a studio and Tim Martin, of Eternal Photography (and not furry.) We had a great set up, including sheet on a table that was animal-proof.

First up were Zig and Zag, two adorable lop-eared rabbits. Adorability factor off the scale - and this little bunny was particularly co-operative (he's either Zig or Zag!)

Next up - kittens, and baubles. Again, the squee-factor was reaching dangerously high levels but they were also very biddable, and posed for Tim like naturals. We nicknamed them Skanky (the black one), Manky and Ginger.

"Too cute? Moi?"

For the dogs, we had two Staffordshire Terriers and a very fluffy/curly/Jack Russell cross. The Staffies were typical of the breed; very sweet and built like machines. Pictured below is Molly, a very loveable three-legged Staffie that was hugely exciteable, but I think just wanted to play.

Great fun, and I learnt a lot from the very talented Tim Martin. Particularly about animal photography; not least of which; bring lots of wet-wipes, and always have an industrial-sized bag of dog chocolate on hand!