Archive for March, 2010

About The Times twice, an Award and a cold

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

A brief summary of last week since my last update.

The UK Folding Plug I photographed earlier this month have won the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010, well done to Min-Kyu Choi and the team!

The Four Tops (shot last week) appeared in the main feature of The Times Arts&Ents last Friday, and the Sunday Times published one of my studio portraits of Marina And The Diamonds, nice double Times ;) .

some recent The Times tear sheets

some recent The Times tear sheets

Music-photography-wise I covered the return of Craig David with his album launch at Scala last week, as well as a big sold-out show of Frightened Rabbit at KOKO which showed how fast these guys are growing, and finally Chris Rea supported by Paul Casey at the Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday night.

Craig David's new album launch at Scala, 9 March 2010

Craig David's new album launch at Scala, 9 March 2010

Chris Rea Performs At Hammersmith Apollo In London March 14 2010

Chris Rea Performs At Hammersmith Apollo In London March 14 2010

A lot of time spent trying another time to make a fresh install on my MacBook Pro, from an empty drive, reinstalling everything one by one, for those who tried they know that it’s a long journey in front of a screen! Working on new exciting opportunities as well as on the Music Video I mentioned before, we hope it will be launched by mid April! Oh and despite these last few enjoyable sunny days I have a cold, shame, how am I going to enjoy the taste of the Guinness tonight? ;) Happy St Patrick’s day everyone.

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Reach Out I’ll Be There!

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

A great day Thursday saw me rocking up to the JW Marriott’s Grosvenor House in Park Lane carrying the quasi totality of my studio, with the help of the lovely Nicky, fellow photographer, for a shoot with some true music legends before they kick off their European tour, Motown’s best The Four Tops and The Temptations. They will be back in London on the 26th for a big show at the O2 Arena, joined by the Drifters and The Three Degrees, closing a UK Arena tour.

The Four Tops in London, March 4 2010 (L to R) Theo Peoples, Lawrence Roquel Payton Jr, Abdul Duke Fakir, Ronnie McNeir

The Four Tops in London, March 4 2010 (L to R) Theo Peoples, Lawrence Roquel Payton Jr, Abdul Duke Fakir, Ronnie McNeir

The Temptations in London, March 4 2010. (L to R) Joe Herndon, Terry Weeks, Bruce Williamson, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson

The Temptations in London, March 4 2010. (L to R) Joe Herndon, Terry Weeks, Bruce Williamson, Otis Williams, Ron Tyson

Oh and by the way, Min-Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug, featured on my last blog entry and who I photographed last week, has won the Product category of the Brit Insurance Design Of The Year Award 2010! You can see the other category winners on the Wired site, with late Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer ‘10 collection posthumously winning the fashion award, not for sentimental reason by the way but because it is stunning. The overall winner will be announced on March 16th.

No photos this weekend, plus given I just got a bit older I kind of expect my head will be sour in the morning… ;) . And then up for another exciting week!

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Hospital fashion week ;)

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

I just can’t find time to blog these days! Ok a brief entry here with quick samples of what I have been up to lately, with two shoots at the Royal College of Art / Design London for two talented teams of inventors and designers. This is the nest of creation of great new products and commodities and it is always interesting to work for such innovator clients. It was a little while since last time I shot for a similar inventor (that was Fabrican’s Manel Torres, fashion designer come inventor who designed spray clothes, yes in a can!). Now here is first an award winning team, “Made In Mind”, built around Min-Kyu Choi, the inventor of a new revolution to come to all laptop or mobile phone users fed up of the bulky UK plug the UK folding plug.

Min-Kyu Choi's UK Folding Plug

Min-Kyu Choi's UK Folding Plug

Made In Mind - The UK folding plug's company February 26 2010, London

Made In Mind - The UK folding plug's company February 26 2010, London

And yesterday’s team was from the Helen Hamlyn Center and their creation an innovative design for a hospital gown to fit all sizes, quite an odd style of “fashion” photoshoot :) .

Helen Hamlyn Center's hospital gown design, March 3 2010, London

Helen Hamlyn Center's hospital gown design, March 3 2010, London

But I need to pack and go now for an exciting photoshoot with some of the biggest legends of the Motown, direct from Detroit to Mayfair, more on this later !

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