William Orbit (1956 - 2026) Another sad farewell.

Today I was saddened to learn of the passing of William on July 23rd.

Over the years, I had the privilege of photographing him on several occasions for magazines, press, and most memorably for the album cover Pieces in a Modern Style.

I was especially touched to work with William for his rendition of Adagio for Strings. Platoon has always been one of my favourite films, and that piece of music has carried a particularly powerful place in my memory as I now know many US veterans. To then photograph the man behind such a beautiful interpretation was a moment I had to not gush about.

Like his music, he had a quiet confidence about him. There was never any unnecessary fuss, just a simple, thoughtful approach that made photographing him a pleasure.

Thank you for the music, the trust, and the memories.

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Eric Idle - Comic of Everything

Eric Idle - Comic, actor, songwriter…

There are few on screen comedians who stand out from my earliest memories of comic entertainers. Saturday nights watching the box with my folks and sister. My list is typically British for a nipper. 

Tommy Cooper, Jasper Carrott, the show Are you Being Served along with the legends of Monty Python.

Cut to a few years later, ha ha, and the bright man Eric Idle walks in for our portrait shoot. 

Cuppa tea I ask? Yes please. None of that Earl Grey stuff he says. 

Clash of The Corps

Monday morning I wake up to a notice that Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has tweeted my shot for the show his company is producing. Up until now I was instructed to stay dark with the images from our shoot for Fuse Television.  Now I can share a fun shoot we captured at Quixote studio's last month while the promo was being filmed. I have to say I didn't know much of anything about drum corp.  I learn't there's a stark difference between Drum Corp and Marching bands. The team at hand gave me a quick lessons in the differences.  

I've noticed in a few social streams, Drum corp isn't all drumsticks and gloves.  Well, we have more images to come and like most show's key art, it's an illustrative image which captures a small amount of the energy needed to be part of the hard work Drum Corp grooving musicians have to work on. More images to be released soon.