Category: My Inspiration
Read my inspiration and work that goes on behind the best portraits of one of London’s finest professional photographers. These blog posts show what it takes to create fine art family portraits from one of Europe’s hardest-working family portrait photographers.
MY INSPIRATION – my dad’s Christmas portrait of me
Sometimes on the blog I like to share images that inspire me, often images taken by my father who was an incredibly talented photographer and who taught me the love of this medium as a child. We spent hours in the darkroom together developing film and making prints and his endless patience ensured that I learnt to love making photographs.
This image is of me and it's one of my all time favourites. I often come back to it at this time of year as it makes me think back to my wonderful childhood. I hope that the images that I take of families now will be as special to them as the children grow up.
My inspiration – my Dad’s photographs of my childhood – Richard and Giles
Today on the blog, we have another post in this series exploring my father’s photographs of my childhood. These are photographs that have influenced me and helped me to develop my very personal style of photography, in which I create pictures that are a photographic record of childhood that will hold many memories for years […]
My inspiration – my Dad’s photographs of my childhood – William’s hovercraft
Today’s blog post continues my monthly exploration of my father’s photographs of my own childhood, which are pictures that have inspired me and shaped the photographer I have become over the years. Each photograph has elements that I try to incorporate into my work each and every day. This picture is all about the light […]
My Inspiration – my Dad’s photographs of my childhood – the canoe
Thank you so much for the lovely comments in response to my first post in this new series exploring the photographs that my father took of me when I was a child – pictures that have inspired me and shaped my photography. For the second post in the series, I have chosen this image of […]
My Inspiration – my Dad’s photographs of my childhood
One of the things I am asked most frequently is why do I photograph in the style that I do – what drives me, what inspires me and what are the reasons behind the decisions I have made in my photographic practice. Why do I shoot on location using natural light, and why only black […]