Thanks so much to Canada Chambers for having me photograph their event at Drapers’ Hall.
Drapers’ Hall is a beautiful venue in The City of London near Liverpool Street
The brief was fairly straightforward: capture the ambience and speakers on stage, and deliver the final images same day.
Thanks so much to hopeandglorypr.com for having me photograph Duncan James (of Blue and Ryan from Hollyoaks fame), with him mum at Buzz Bingo, to celebrate Bingo week. The brief was simply to capture the two having a nice time at the Bingo. Images were delivered the next day, and the images went down well: “Thanks so much for coming out to Buzz Bingo and taking some amazing shots! The client and the talent are over the moon with them :)”
It was a rare treat to photograph at my old haunt Colours Hoxton (formerly Hoxton Bar and Grill), for legendary speaker company Q Acoustics, who were sponsoring a DIY Magazine gig called Class of 2025.
The lineup started with superb noisy bastard/ette/s Mere Amore, followed by the epic Getdown Services who had us laughing and gawping and shouting along from the moment they arrived. Last up were Lambrini Girls - IYKYK.
Of course gig photography isn’t my usual source of income - I’m generally a corporate event photographer to pay the bills, but in reality I have a background as a fine art sculptor, a potter and pottery teacher, a paper cutout artist, a lecturer at a uni, a gig photographer, a fine art photographer, advertising photographer, a bookie, and in the distant past I was a singer/guitarist busker (which at age 10 I earned enough in an hour to buy a dozen new albums to feed my habit which was my only reason for doing it, then packed it in due to self doubt), and then at college doing music tech. It’s quite strange thinking about my life in that way. I guess as a creative one just falls into vocations as they present themselves. My family are a musical bunch so I suppose it made sense to start off there, but visual art suited my naturally quiet nature as time moved on.
It was such a joy shooting the gig at Hoxton Colours, not least because that’s the venue that started my career in photography, when it was called Hoxton Bar and Grill and Lowri organised gigs for up and coming bands to play there.
Thanks Nick and John for getting me on to this job, and Rupert at DIY for helping out too!
It was a joy to be asked back to photograph for Saleloft at The Brewery venue in City of London. Salesloft put on an annual ”Saleslove” tour, which I photographed the previous year, and was asked back to photograph the event this year.
The brief was to capture highlights of people enjoying the day, and speakers on stage.
As well as speakers on stage, there was an exercise put on by the fantastic charity Sleep Pod, who create one person shelters that can be erected with simple materials and provide excellent insulation against the elements. Delegates were tasked with getting into teams and putting a Sleep Pod together.
Thanks again Salesloft!
It was a joy to photograph Terrapinn’s business to business event about identity at the ExCel Centre. I had only just photographed Google Cloud’s stand via Audience at ExCel a few days before so it was nice to photograph Excel again so soon. And thanks to the Elizabeth line/Custom House I can get there in 30 minutes instead of an hour. Thanks Queen!
Terrapinn were great to work with. Marketing manager Abby Cairns made sure I was fully briefed before sending me off to find the winning moments across the sprawling set of booths and talks (both on stage and more informally in the main arena). They needed a fast image turnaround on the same day of selected images. Both Abby and marketing director James were very complimentary indeed about the initial set of images!
FAST IMAGE TURNAROUND YOU SAY?
Yes indeed. I have speedy, portable and colour accurate equipment for on-site delivery of selected photographs, which I can tweak and edit before sending to you via email, WeTransfer or hard drive/memory stick. Terrapinn needed just a few images on the day of people reacting and looking happy, as well as some on-stage shots. They received around 12 images on the day and their simple reaction was “These are amazing! Thanks so much”. So that helped me get through the rest of the day with a spring in my shutter button.
Also a big thank you to photographer Jennifer Moyes who I was covering for this particular event due to unforeseen circumstances (she’s fine). Jennifer is a seasoned professional photographer working in a reportage style.
