I was celebrating Christmas 2004 at my sisters house in Gloucestershire as the Boxing Day Tsunami destroyed huge areas of Aceh in Indonesia as well as parts of Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. As I flew out to Chennai to begin photographing the devastation for The Times, I couldn’t imagine what it must have been…
Spin Doctors and Borgen A huge bonus of being a contract photographer at The Times newspaper is getting to meet and photograph some pretty amazing people, and when this job to photograph ‘Birgitte’ and ‘Kasper’ from Danish political drama Borgen came up, I was thrilled. I’ve only recently become a fan, during the second series…
Andrew Scott Portrait Session A few weeks ago, my website had the largest spike in traffic when someone noticed an Andrew Scott portrait I’d shot in an editorial blog post, and re-posted it to tumblr. The portrait was blogged and pinned hundreds of times. I enjoyed his performance as Moriarity in the Sherlock Holmes series,…
London 2012 was my second Olympic Games, having covered Athens in 2004. Both times, I was photographing for the news pages of The Times, along with dedicated Times sports photographers. Although The Times used unprecedented printing methods to bring readers superb photography at unimaginable sizes, there were still many thousands of images being produced daily which…