VV Brown's Visuals

I've spent the past couple of nights photographing the Turning Point Festival taking place at the Roundhouse. Several hot artists of the moment were involved, including Tinchy Stryde, currently at number one in the UK singles chart and The Noisettes, who are hard to escape whenever you turn the radio on.
The main act last night was VV Brown, pop's latest style queen. Now, her back drop for the most part featured her name in bright colours, like this:

That looked pretty good.
However, her visuals also featured some video footage and bizarrely that footage happened to include my good self photographing her as she performed. Those that know me will recognise me below in action behind VV as the Roundhouse audience look on.

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Istanbul

Here are a few pictures I took with a compact camera during a visit to Istanbul in January. The city was fascinating, not least from a photography point of view with a coming together of eastern and western cultures and stunning architecture which made for great skylines.
Of all the places I've visited I'd say it's up there with Cuba and Morocco for great locations to take photos. I intend to return armed with my professional camera and dedicate some time at sunrise and sunset, when the light is perfect, to capturing some more the city and its people.













We were lucky enough to be get to enjoy a stay in the Istanbul Swissotel and its amazing views overlooking the Bosphorus river, which separates Europe from Asia.







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Recent Published Work

The truth is, with my work syndicated internationally, I don't get to see even a fraction of my photos which are published. Occasionally I get a heads up from a friend or someone in the industry (as happened with the double page spread in Spin magazine below), but it's usually only by looking at my sales reports that I get any idea of what's being used where. And even then it would take a whole lot chasing up of time and effort to get hold of the published piece.
The following cuttings I stumbled across while looking through the UK papers. It's really important as a photographer to look through as many papers and mags as possible to understand how photos are used, which pics they're choosing and why.

Spin magazine (double page spread!)


Coldplay in the London Lite


Girls Aloud in the Evening Standard


Alice Delall topless in the Daily Star (no surprise the Star chose to use this)


Pussycat Dolls in The London Paper


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Updates. I'm back!

Right, I haven't been blogging for the past two months, mainly through being really busy and losing my rhythm. From now on, because of my workload I'm not going to try to blog after every job, instead write more in depth once or twice a week with the highlights of the jobs I've been working on.
Also you'll notice I've included my twitter feed at the top of the blog, so you follow what I'm doing on a daily basis, both photographically and personally.
Finally, February and March has been very pleasing months for quality of pictures, so I'm post my highlights below.

Fashion Week proved to work out really well for me in February.












February was a very busy month and along with Fashion Week included the Brit Awards.





Big name stars to have walked the red carpet over the past few months have included Julia Roberts, looking very unglamorous in a black suit, and Jennifer Aniston.



Familiar faces also featured as I shot Peter (as he now wants to be called) Doherty in concert and Amy Winehouse appearing at court.



Glamour came in the form of a Moet party with appearances from Scarlett Johansson and Eva Herzigova, whose picture below I would rate amongst the best I've taken this year.





I also joined Spandau Ballet on HMS Belfast as they announced their comeback.


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Prince Charles & Camilla Visit Mosque Plus Film Awards

This proved to be a very welcoming trip to the Dawoodi Bohra Mosque in Northolt, where I was served tea, given food and granted access inside the Mosque to photograph Prince Charles and Camilla's visit. It made for some interesting photos too.







Later that day I covered the London Critics' Circle Film Awards at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane. Not one of the better know awards ceremonies, but there were a few names worth shooting including Dev Patel, the lead in international hit move, Slumdog Millionnaire and Dame Judi Dench (both below)




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Chaka Khan Plays Shepherds Bush Empire

Fantastic soul diva to shoot - she put so much emotion effort into her vocals, which make for great shots.






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