Weighing responsibility
This morning I received an email from a person who had seen my site and the image of a girl who has scarred herself through self-harm. Not receiving mail on this image very often, I was interested to hear what the person had to say but found that I was being involved in part of [...]
Tabasco-Globe
Just a quick update to combine a healthy dose of trumpet-blowing with pointing all you photography fans to a great new site that’s causing quite a stir among photo fans on the internet, the Boston Globe’s Big Picture. Rob Galbraith‘s site featured it recently, saying, “Launched officially only three weeks ago, The Big Picture, a [...]
Euro-ver 2008
The final job of the trip arrived yesterday with France v Italy. Never having seen Italy play before and only having heard the old stories of their “interesting” techniques, I was stunned at how ridiculous their diving is. The game looked more like an am-dram performance. Every few seconds, a player in white would collapse [...]
The Lagerback endurance test
Another day, another press conference in the media tent in Lugano. It really is like some kind of mental test to see how many times you can shoot the same person with the same backdrop in the same tent saying the same thing to the same people and still try to think up something different. [...]
This one time at Swede camp..
Another day, another visit to the Swedish training camp for my daily breakfast of crusty bread with some kind of salami. Thankfully, I just discovered that the guest-house that I’m staying at serves fantastic food so my evenings are no longer spent searching the area for decent fodder. All talk today was about a bust-up [...]
See Bre Free
Kilometres! The measurement of choice for the MTV generation! Gasp as the units fly past! Laugh as the satnav talks in metres for once rather than “yards”! (I mean, WHO knows how far a yard is?) Feel all tough like Kris Kristofferson in “Convoy” as what was only a quite short journey feels like a [...]
Who knows best..
So here’s a weird one.. Last night, I settled down in front of the tv with my girlfriend and decided to watch a recent Derren Brown “Trick or Treat” (Season 2, episode 3 for those who want to watch it..) Tonight’s guest was David Tennant, the current Dr. Who, and after randomly choosing to get [...]
Red carpet blues
When I started out in London, I used to return to Sheffield at the weekend and when I caught up with friends, one of the first questions was always “who’ve you been shooting recently?” After a while, I realised that often the smaller stories proved to be the most rewarding but all people want to [...]
What Adcuz wants, Adcuz gets..
In a move that MAY spell the end of the new sport of giggling at the email attackers, it’s time for a burst of News of the World-stylee “Name & Shame”. Well not quite as I’ll do the honourable thing and hide the names but here’s a selection of emails I’ve had regarding the horse [...]
The ongoing war against passion-driven stupidity
No, not of the sexual kind (although sometimes, I do wonder). The passion of which I write is the love of horses. In my line of work as a press photographer, I face a wide variety of subjects, stories and people on a daily basis. This is one of the main reasons why I love [...]
